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Geek Culture / A Visual History of Game Engines

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 04:20
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Saw this up on polycount today and thought it was pretty neat. Game engines sure have come a long way haven't they?

http://www.maximumpc.com/print/7079

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ShaunRW
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 04:26
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Thanks for the link, this is pretty interesting.


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Mahoney
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 06:23
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Interesting article/link. Thanks.

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Krowsnest
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 06:56
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That was very interesting Sid, thx for posting. Really makes me want to get back to playing some 90s rpgs and shooters.

Also, it was interesting to see the Dunia engine at the end of the list (meaning it to be the "best" engine as I would assume), Gives a reason why Far Cry 2 is so beautiful....

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Jeku
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 07:39
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Interesting. I could have sworn Dark Forces was made with the Doom engine, but it states that while they were accused of reverse-engineering the Doom engine, it wasn't ever proven.

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Roxas
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 14:15
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It lacks of engines. There were many incredible Japanese ones. One should be Crystal Tools (Made many beautiful DS games in example).

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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 30th Jul 2009 14:24
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Thanks for the link, I think I actually learned some stuff there.

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 04:18
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I know, it really makes me want to get into engine programming. I'm looking forward to the fall even more now, when I return to school for my Bachelors of Computer Science, Game Software Development degree.

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 05:28 Edited at: 31st Jul 2009 05:28
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Interesting link, thanks

Quote: "I know, it really makes me want to get into engine programming. I'm looking forward to the fall even more now, when I return to school for my Bachelors of Computer Science, Game Software Development degree. "

Yeah, me too, returning for the 2nd year of the same thing, they call it "Bachelors of Computer Science with a concentration in gaming", love it so far, plus the whole college (or uni for you brits) experience .


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Darth Vader
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 06:01
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Oi, and us Aussie's as well!

Bookmarked, looks like an interesting read.

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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 31st Jul 2009 06:59
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@Gil: Nice! Glad to hear you like it. I'm pretty pumped. I've already got my animation degree, so I'm looking forward to applying that to the game programming classes. I'm not looking forward to the hours of stressful debugging and wrapping my mind around the code, but oh well... the benefits are so cool

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Aertic
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Certainly a good read there.

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