RE: kid

[Chris Kaiser <ckaiser@peregrine.com>]

If your looking for inspiration then look to
Seumas McNally.. he was the programmer behind 
TreadMarks which took three awards at the 
Independant Games Festival, best programming, 
best game design, and the grand prize.

http://www.gamedev.net/community/memorial/seumas/

This was done by him, his brother, and mother and father.
That's it. Talk about inspiration.. this is his memorial
page, sadly short after receiving this recognition, he
passed on due to Hodgkins Lymphoma. Truly a sad day...
the world has lost a great mind, and person.

Chris...

--> -----Original Message-----
--> From: Cobra176@aol.com [mailto:Cobra176@aol.com]
--> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:43 PM
--> To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
--> Subject: Re: kid
--> 
--> 
--> In a message dated 3/29/00 1:29:25 AM Central Standard Time, 
--> kidwhy@hotmail.com writes:
--> 
--> << hi,
-->  im kid computersc major 22 i m just a beginner i love 
--> games i played lots 
-->  and and lots of games but i didnt know how much efforts it takes
-->  on that to make such games would u let me know how much 
--> time it takes
-->  to program a best selling game either 2d or 3d.Does it 
--> take team work how 
-->  bout an individual programmer intend to make such games 
--> wont he able to do 
-->  that how much time ill he take to do that.I WANA START 
--> WITH THAT WOULD U 
-->  GUIDE ME...??? PLZZZZ. >>
--> Most games these days are made by AT LEAST 5-20 people.. 
--> Even Super Mario 
--> World was finally done by about 30 designers, artists, programmers, 
--> musicians, etc. (According to the credits)
--> Working solo to make a breakthrough game takes years. Take 
--> for example 
--> Unreal..... Didn't he start on that thing right after the 
--> DOOM II era? '95? 
--> hmm......... 5 years.
--> *shudders at the thought of working on the same program that long*
--> Not that it's impossible to make a game solo. Plenty of 
--> decent games are made 
--> solo, or with about 3 people. (programmer, artist, 
--> musician/sound engineer). 
--> They take around 6 months to a year and a half normally, 
--> sometimes spanning 
--> to 2 or 3 years.
--> I've seen on average game being completed in 1 to 2 years by teams.
--> -keep in mind these games are relatively very complex.
--> 
--> Quake was done by only a few programmers, but it's hard to 
--> be a John Carmack.
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