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Goofus Maximus (122)   Jul 20, 2007 - 07:46 am | Edited on Jul 20, 2007 - 07:49 am

» Interesting point... In a way, I think you just described the mod community. Early on, all art was bound by the limits of technology, and games were bound by the limits of CPU and RAM. This kept coding within sane limits almost by default. As the limits have been removed, the sheer complexity of the spaghetti code, along with the interactive way that every part of the game affects all other parts, has made the effort of coding and debugging rise exponentially. Multicore/multi-threading gives another huge bump in gaming complexity, with the imposition of severe timing constraints, with all the potential for such new bugs as race conditions and de-synchronizing of threads. Really, I think that, even with a huge "creative commons" for games, the costs are still going to become ever more absurd, as the hardware it runs on becomes more absurdly complex. (By the way admins, the censor actually draws attention to letter combos that wouldn't be noticed otherwise, so it's actually MAKING bad language instead of hiding it. Here's hoping the dash between multi and threading fixes this.) » Login to reply to this

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indigo196 (255)    Jul 14, 2007 - 09:47 am

Hence the appeal of a console like the XBOX360... if they would just give it a keyboard. » Login to reply to this

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