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> It was found at a garage sale of a former THQ developer. This would be interesting to know more about. Was it on a CD, or maybe left on the disk of an old PC

> It was found at a garage sale of a former THQ developer. This would be interesting to know more about. Was it on a CD, or maybe left on the disk of an old PC? I wonder how much old source code is hanging out in developer's attics and basements around the world, before git/online repos were a thing.

ryandrake 3y ago
There's probably a lot lying around. Back in the early 2000s, or maybe late 1990s, I was a big fan of a PC game that ended up being a total commercial failure for the studio and publisher. It was so bad the studio went under, and the game was left with many bugs unpatched. On a lark, I (and a few other fans) got together an reached out via E-mail to the publisher and offered to take a stab at the code and fix some bugs for free. To our shock they sent us the source code on CDROM. We never actually got very far (the source code was a colossal mess) but decades ago, wild shit like this probably happened more than you'd think. I have no idea where those CDs ended up, probably tossed them at some point.
- burningChrome 3y ago
  The early aughts were like the Wild West in game development. I remember almost taking a job with a smaller agency trying to build their own game engine and similar game to GTA but with a sci-fi twist. Same thing. Company went under for a myriad of reasons. I should really write a blog post about it, some if was just so fantastical to believe. In the end, the devs scattered in all directions but my buddy took all the source code with him and tried to get a workable version going and release it on an independent label he started just for this game and project. I ran into him a few years back and asked him about it and he said he still had the CD's laying around in his basement in storage. He said every few months, he would try and take a stab at it, but it was just too much for one person to handle and too many years had passed were it just wasn't worth it any more. It would be interesting to see how many people had similar stories.

ryandrake 3y ago

There's probably a lot lying around. Back in the early 2000s, or maybe late 1990s, I was a big fan of a PC game that ended up being a total commercial failure for the studio and publisher. It was so bad the studio went under, and the game was left with many bugs unpatched. On a lark, I (and a few other fans) got together an reached out via E-mail to the publisher and offered to take a stab at the code and fix some bugs for free. To our shock they sent us the source code on CDROM. We never actually got very far (the source code was a colossal mess) but decades ago, wild shit like this probably happened more than you'd think. I have no idea where those CDs ended up, probably tossed them at some point.

burningChrome 3y ago
The early aughts were like the Wild West in game development. I remember almost taking a job with a smaller agency trying to build their own game engine and similar game to GTA but with a sci-fi twist. Same thing. Company went under for a myriad of reasons. I should really write a blog post about it, some if was just so fantastical to believe. In the end, the devs scattered in all directions but my buddy took all the source code with him and tried to get a workable version going and release it on an independent label he started just for this game and project. I ran into him a few years back and asked him about it and he said he still had the CD's laying around in his basement in storage. He said every few months, he would try and take a stab at it, but it was just too much for one person to handle and too many years had passed were it just wasn't worth it any more. It would be interesting to see how many people had similar stories.