Anatomy of Game Development 385
CowboyRobot writes "ACM Queue has an article titled Game Development: Harder Than You Think that looks at the complexities of creating a modern game, in comparison with the relative simplicity of doing so ten years ago.
My understanding of the industry is that they have too many designers and not enough programmers. From the article: 'Now the primary technical challenge is simply getting the code to work to produce an end result that bears some semblance to the desired functionality... There's such a wide variety of algorithms to know about, so much experience required to implement them in a useful way, and so much work overall that just needs to be done, that we have a perpetual shortage of qualified people in the industry.'"
Too many designers? (Score:3, Funny)
Outsource it! (Score:5, Funny)
Is it just my imagination (Score:5, Funny)
Nice pen name
Re:As a programmer and game developer... (Score:5, Funny)
You developers need to think more like managers.
new technology, designers, engineers... (Score:5, Funny)
:-P
Harder than you think? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Outsource it! (Score:5, Funny)
You come across Wumpus!
What you do?
> Shoot Wumpus
Wumpus die.
A Blow job (Score:2, Funny)
Whoops! (Score:2, Funny)
I always knew they were put together differently!!
Especially those Running with Sissors guys!!
Only reveals the limits of closed source (Score:1, Funny)
HL2 delay tactic (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shocking... (Score:2, Funny)
That guy with the funny shapes that fall down the screen, boy did we send him packing!
Blow, J (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why 20 hour RPG's do not quite work (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Outsource it! (Score:5, Funny)
If they outsourced, pretty soon you'd have characters in games saying stuff like "All your base are belong to us..." and "Make your time...."
Great! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:As a programmer and game developer... (Score:3, Funny)
And that, my friends, is irony.
Re:Design Patterns? (Score:2, Funny)
Only bad games are designed incrementally.
Good games start with a very comprehensive design document.
A C to sail them on. (Score:3, Funny)
But this C is tiny and difficult to sail so I'll hand them all an upgrade to C++ [att.com] and let them wail.
This shrieking is ill met, I stop and look profound as I have a solution it's C pound. [hitmill.com]
My coders all have left me with this ugly stinking mess I should have not given them more and more but merely better less. [cminusminus.org]
Re:Kama Whoring with ad free versions (Score:3, Funny)
#1. Don't you think it's immoral for you to have viewed those pages based on your argument in #2?
#2. Don't you think this is a pointless argument because of what you said in #1?
Re:As a programmer and game developer... (Score:3, Funny)
That and, you know, posting +5, Insightful comments on slashdot with a link to your site