Build Engine Guru Interviewed 12

Posted by simoniker on Sunday July 20, 2003 @02:21PM from the nuke-dukem-dee-three dept.

Thanks to BluesNews for pointing to a DOS Game Archive interview with Ken Silverman, creator of Apogee's Build Engine, as used for Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior, Redneck Rampage, and more. The interview discusses the genesis of the Build Engine ("Around March of 1993, id Software released a set of alpha screenshots of DOOM. That's about when I started to work on Build... I decided to start with angled walls with a little prototype I wrote in QuickBasic (named PICROT)"), as well as some of Ken's more 'unique' non-programming skills ("I can draw the borders of all U.S. states from memory.")

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Back to school (Score:3, Interesting)

by trompete ( 651953 ) writes: on Sunday July 20, 2003 @02:30PM (#6485866) Homepage Journal

I read this a while ago, and my favorite part was how he left game programming to finish his college degree. I mean...who needs a degree when you are so well known in the industry.

- He's got it right. (Score:5, Funny)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday July 20, 2003 @03:18PM (#6486161)
  
  Earn and save money first. Then go to school. The primary reason to go to college is to get a wife. So when you start to think about getting married, go back. Other than a centralized place for single women, college has nothing to offer for any reasonably bright person.
  
  - - - Re:He's got it right. (Score:3, Insightful)
        
        by peripatetic_bum ( 211859 ) writes:
        
        100$ an hour?
        
        ok, but how many hours are you now getting?
        
        I think the point of college has to be more than "to make a buck" BUT not every one is lucky enough to be able (ie rich parents) to think like that.
        
        What seems to be going on is that as college's keep getting more and more expensive the idea that college is there to educate jsut seems to get more and more laughable.
        
        I can see both sides. I went to college, and now am currently makeing twice (at least) what the poster above is making AND I also got v
        
        Re:He's got it right. (Score:1)
        
        by GigsVT ( 208848 ) writes:
        
        If you have a medical degree, I think that is a slightly different matter from a normal 4 year degree, especially in CS. In medcine it could cost lives if the professors are totally out of touch and don't teach you well.
        
        In CS, it's expected that the professors have their heads up their asses.
Relevant link. (Score:3, Informative)

by hackwrench ( 573697 ) writes: <hackwrench@hotmail.com> on Sunday July 20, 2003 @03:41PM (#6486304) Homepage Journal

http://doomencyclo.free.fr/e_interviews_kensilv.ht m
Also, It's too bad PICROT isn't available for download. Did a google search that turned up the above link, but no PICROT download.

He's a... (Score:1)

by jrivar59 ( 146428 ) writes:

NERD!

Oh wait... I can't stop coding either.. damnit...

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Back to school (Score:3, Interesting)

He's got it right. (Score:5, Funny)

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Relevant link. (Score:3, Informative)

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