D3 anyone? :D
Great read otherwise, regression from low budget > great games to the contrary is sad, and really makes me want to see developers as motivated and creative as they were for those games, quitting commercial BS as anyway their games would probably sell better if they were just good...

To be honest the community pushed it way too much lol. D3 got delayed a lot and I bet if Blizzard wouldn't be under the evil rule of Kottick we'd see it a year later or something...

And it wouldn't fail at almost everything. Now they gotta fix it, while it hurt the Blizzard brand.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

September 08 2012 20:00 GMT

#47

awesome gesture not c/p'ing the whole thing

solidbebe

Netherlands4921 Posts

September 08 2012 20:38 GMT

#48

This was a great read! Im anxiously awaiting part 2

whatthefat

United States918 Posts

September 08 2012 20:55 GMT

#49

This is brilliant, thanks for the link.

I wonder, have programming standards in the gaming world generally improved since then? Or is still just a matter of hammering out any old slop to meet crazy release dates?

Atrbyg

United States513 Posts

September 08 2012 22:52 GMT

#50

This is a great read and it's really insightful.

Xiphos

Canada7507 Posts

September 08 2012 22:58 GMT

#51

I don't know why haven't anyone thought of NOT releasing the date of the game's planned day and only release any information after the game have been complete. think about it, the crowd won't get pissed off, gives you time to fix any kinks, and plus you don't have to worry about stress but work comfortably so that your product's quality is certain to be on the top echelon.

Its kind of like giving you a nice buffer zone to not worry about it. Plus you can play around with the hype and manipulate the customer until finally they'll go "Oh, lads and gents, here is the moment you have been waiting for..." accented by the cries of millions of fans.

+ Show Spoiler +

Yes, I'm looking at you D3

ZidaneTribal

United States2800 Posts

September 09 2012 00:42 GMT

#52

this guy is a hero

MadJack

Peru357 Posts

September 09 2012 06:56 GMT

#53

So is he the one we have to "thank" for the dragoon terrible pathing ? xD

IshinShishi

Japan6156 Posts

September 09 2012 08:59 GMT

#54

decent read, considering I know very little of programming, he is quite the writer, or he has quite the story.

inn5013orecl

United States227 Posts

September 09 2012 10:09 GMT

#55

Perfect timing for me to learn about this blog. Just finished my database class this past summer and starting on compilers this fall, giving me enough knowledge to understand what he's talking about

Great read. Thanks for sharing!

Marou

Germany1371 Posts

September 09 2012 11:37 GMT

#56

i read this article yesterday, i really look forward to part2 when he will talk about the pathing. It's a great read but i'm afraid it's a little bit hard to understand for non programmers

h3r1n6

Iceland2039 Posts

September 09 2012 15:33 GMT

#57

While I implemented some important features in StarCraft, including fog-of-war, line-of-sight, flying unit pathing-repulsion, voice-chat, AI reinforcement points, and others, my primary job gravitated to fixing bugs.

Does he know about muta-stacking and other tricks players eventually learned to do with their pathing algorithms?

hitthat

Poland2267 Posts

September 09 2012 15:58 GMT

#58

It was BroodWar that made Blizzard THE best company out there. Diablo was fucking great, and Warcraft 2 was quite good. And then came StarCraft and Diablo 2 that made this company legendary. Korean BW scene made BW one of the first profesional e-sport game. Later we had WarCraft III (quite innovative game) and WoW (this one I ignored, so i dont know).

...And than SC2 came - a great single player game with multi much worse than its previous instalment. Trully step backward. And than... Diablo III, that I intentionally ignored to not support ActiBlizz, and from reading complains from internet it seems to be good decision.

niuage

United States175 Posts

September 09 2012 15:59 GMT

#59

At first, I thought it was going to be yet another post on the beginning of SC, "Orcs in space" etc, but no! This is amazing and gives some much insight into the development... Great read.