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> but when it comes to say Starcraft, which is a beautiful one person creation Wait, huh? Are we thinking of the same Starcraft? Is there a different program o
by notpachet 3y ago
> but when it comes to say Starcraft, which is a beautiful one person creation
Wait, huh? Are we thinking of the same Starcraft? Is there a different program or utility with the same name as the videogame? Because the videogame was absolutely not a single-person creation.
- bullen 3y agoThere was a bunch of side people. But the main engine was one dude.
- notpachet 3y agoWith all due respect to Bob Fitch, I think you're overly romanticizing here. He wasn't starting from absolute zero. He was heavily refactoring the existing engine and bringing in improvements from the Diablo engine, which was being finished up at the same time. It's still a very impressive technical achievement to rewrite a game engine like that, I just don't think it qualifies as "finished software" in the way this thread intends that phrase to mean... edit: in fairness your post wasn't talking about finished software per se; I still feel it's inaccurate to call starcraft.exe a one-person creation.
- qup 3y agoyeah, Blizzard made it. I used to hang out with him in #vb6