"The games industry has had a term called “dev-to-triangle time” when describing API complexity and difficulty: take an experienced programmer, put him in a room with a brand new SDK he’s never used before, and wait until he gets a single triangle up on the screen. How long does it take?"
"In the main engineering room, there was a whoop and cry of success.
Our company financial controller and acting HR lady, Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle."
I'm excited for less of a stack. I recently brought Fallout 3, which had a big warning about it not playing well with window 7 and later.
That's a sad state of affairs given that the game is not playable to non technical people.
I managed to get it running well on osx and wine but I still got random OpenGL crashes due to OOM. Clearly the windows driver was fixing a bug in the game.
[+] [-] Someone|10 years ago|reply
That reminds me of http://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745:
"In the main engineering room, there was a whoop and cry of success.
Our company financial controller and acting HR lady, Jen, came in to see what incredible things the engineers and artists had come up with. Everyone was staring at a television set hooked up to a development box for the Sony Playstation. There, on the screen, against a single-color background, was a black triangle."
[+] [-] nextweek2|10 years ago|reply
That's a sad state of affairs given that the game is not playable to non technical people.
I managed to get it running well on osx and wine but I still got random OpenGL crashes due to OOM. Clearly the windows driver was fixing a bug in the game.
[+] [-] JibberMeTimbers|10 years ago|reply