Re: Games - A question

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Friday 30 November 2001 01:21, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> That said games are one of the few things people 'accept' as closed
> source.  It is an odd blend of real art, CS art, etc.  The best of
> both worlds is what id Games does by releasing the source a year or
> so after the game came out.  This way the next generation of coders
> have literature to read (good writers read books, good coders read
> code).

Bad analogy. We rarely get to see the source code for a novel. The 
source for a novel is the writer's draft or revision marks. Think 
instead of scripts (source) and movies (binary). I remember stumbling 
across a "making-of" book about The Matrix. I could see in the script 
and the storyboard reproductions some of the differences between the 
concept and the final cut (the script/storyboard compiled with the 
director and editor's optimizations).

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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."