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Article about redesigning Half-Life nearly from scratch, with tremendous results
- henning 19y agoIt's interesting to collect examples of significant rewrite efforts that occurred late in the development of a new product. Evidently, well-organized superstar teams can do it. This is a very different beast from rewriting mature products that have already been shipped.
- reitzensteinm 19y agoThis is more of a design rewrite than a code rewrite, though. I'm sure they had to rewrite a reasonable amount of code, but the engine would have been pretty much untouched (except for evolutionary changes).