[notpachet]

> but when it comes to say Starcraft, which is a beautiful one person creation

Wait, huh? Are we thinking of the same Starcraft? Is there a different program or utility with the same name as the videogame? Because the videogame was absolutely not a single-person creation.

[bullen]

There was a bunch of side people. But the main engine was one dude.

[notpachet]

With all due respect to Bob Fitch, I think you're overly romanticizing here. He wasn't starting from absolute zero. He was heavily refactoring the existing engine and bringing in improvements from the Diablo engine, which was being finished up at the same time.

It's still a very impressive technical achievement to rewrite a game engine like that, I just don't think it qualifies as "finished software" in the way this thread intends that phrase to mean...

edit: in fairness your post wasn't talking about finished software per se; I still feel it's inaccurate to call starcraft.exe a one-person creation.

[qup]

yeah, Blizzard made it. I used to hang out with him in #vb6