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Re: John Carmack's QuakeCon 2005 Keynote - complete transcript

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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 03:17

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On 16 Aug 2005 00:41:36 GMT, Knight37 <knight37m@gmail.com> wrote:

><Highlander> once tried to test me with:
>
>> John Carmack:
>> 
>> Reflections
>> 
>> "First, it's worth sitting back and reflecting about how amazing the 
>> industry has been and the type of progress that we've seen.
>
>[ YADA YADA YADA, SNIP ]
>
>Damn, he could have probably programmed Quake 5 by the time he said all of 
>that.

This isn't a case of determining what can be squeezed into the current tech
level - this is a case of trying to render highly detailed evnionments as
efficiently as possible.

This is an entirely new game - R&D is much more difficult, and costs are
much harder to recoup.  Gone are the days of one-coder teams.

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