Comments on: News From GameFest http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2006/08/14/news-from-gamefest Rachel Blum on Software, Games And The Rest Of Life Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: pauldwaite http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2006/08/14/news-from-gamefest/comment-page-1#comment-2508 pauldwaite Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:41:14 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2006/08/14/news-from-gamefest#comment-2508 <p>The cost for the xBox environment is a shame, but at $99 per year,it could have been a lot worse. Fingers crossed some takented people start having a go at it. If they can then sell their games through the online service, they could make their money back.</p> <p>From the very little I know about game development in the good old days (i.e. the 1980s), it was possible for one-man teams to do all the programming and everything else for a game, just because there was so much less memory and machine capability available. I think for similar great game experiences nowadays, it'll often take two or three really talented people working together to make it happen. But then, of course, nowadays the internet is more ubiquitous and the open source development method has a fair bit of maintream marketshare, so collaboration can be easier.</p> <p>And on a completely unrelated topic, iCalFix iCalFix iCalFix :)</p> The cost for the xBox environment is a shame, but at $99 per year,it could have been a lot worse. Fingers crossed some takented people start having a go at it. If they can then sell their games through the online service, they could make their money back.

From the very little I know about game development in the good old days (i.e. the 1980s), it was possible for one-man teams to do all the programming and everything else for a game, just because there was so much less memory and machine capability available. I think for similar great game experiences nowadays, it’ll often take two or three really talented people working together to make it happen. But then, of course, nowadays the internet is more ubiquitous and the open source development method has a fair bit of maintream marketshare, so collaboration can be easier.

And on a completely unrelated topic, iCalFix iCalFix iCalFix :)

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