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by abdulhaq
4446 days ago
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I'm not sure if you're serious or not, but you tell a good story! If you are serious and you really want to deliver something rather than enjoy the daydreaming about how great it's going to be (something I suffer from myself sometimes) then you should know that it's time to put fingers to keyboard. You've got a dozen of years of effort in front of you. Have a look at the story of Robert Szeleney and SkyOS for instance. |
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If I had started implementation sooner I would have made something naive and half-baked. I did not have the benefit of a formal education in Computer Science and I probably wouldn't have attempted a project of this size if I had known all of the work that was involved. Walter Bright wrote a compiler by himself and Paul Woakes wrote Mercenary unaided and Elite was made by just two people, with David Braben on graphics and Ian Bell doing the trading (okay, three if you count the novel included in the box by Robert Holdstock), but that is still just 1% of the staff of a Ubisoft game like Assassin's Creed employing a whole bunch of artists, animators, scriptwriters, voice actors and composers for an estimated thousand man-years to create its content-rich high production values - all of which can be circumvented with procedural content generation as in No Man's Sky (initially, just four developers), and supplementary user-generated content such as or the seven million user-created levels in Little Big Planet, or about seven thousand competitive Halo 3 maps on the Forgehub community website.
Rather than waste mine and everyone else's time "doing the sensible thing" and writing another Tetris clone, I've gone and jumped straight to what I wanted to do, mindful that I will need productivity boosting tools in order to make it and that to write those all by myself I will need a highly productive exploratory programming language and that in order to make THAT it would help if I knew what the hell I was doing and did PLENTY of preparatory reading so that I didn't go in to it uninformed.