I'd hate to think of the amount of time it would take to program, especially by one person alone. And a game like Baldur's Gate would probably take even longer to write. Wipe that golden tear from your mother dear And raise what's left of the flag for me ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game companies was Accessible soft
> Hi Bryan, > Oh, yeah... RPG games can be the toughest games to write, not because > the are hard to program, but there is so much stuff to program into that > game. A game like > > Baldur's Gate would take ages to complete under the best of > circumstances. > Not long ago I looked into the idea of writing a clone of Legend of Zelda > Even though I had played that game as a kid allot I grabbed the > walkthrough off the net to review it, and after reading it I said no way. > It wouldn't have been complicated to program easy in fact, but the game is > so huge it would take a very long time to complete. > > > > > Bryan Peterson wrote: >> Besides, you can only write so many games for free. Well perhaps that's >> not >> the best way of wording it. I mean, let's say you wanted to write a nice, >> hefty RPG game that would actually take some time to complete. Games like >> that can't really be done for free. You'd have to hire a music composer, >> sound designer, voice actors, all sorts of things. Then of course there's >> the time it would take just for the programming part. Even I, who've >> never >> written a line of code in my life (nor even seen one), can imaine ow long >> it >> must take. If even a simple game can take a few months to write, I'd hate >> to >> imagine how long it would take to write a game in the style of Baldur's >> Gate, which is what Castle Quest sounded as though it was shaping up to >> be. >> Games like that can't really be made available for free. >> Wipe that golden tear from your mother dear >> And raise what's left of the flag for me >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
