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Geek Culture / Developer interview: John Romero

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FunkyLabs
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http://gamefocus.wordpress.com/2007/...w-john-romero/

John Romero talks about his time as an Indie, what he thinks about the indiebusiness, what his studio is currently working on, as well as whether he prefers pizza or hamburgers and a lot more

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Its good to know about the guy whom we are all his female dogs.


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Dave J
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I can't believe he's still around.


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I forget the title but there was a cool book about John Romero and John Carmack and their early programming days with Id.


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Kentaree
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CR: is the book called Masters of Doom?

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Chris K
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I think it's called "Guess which one of our cash streams has dried up?"

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Kentaree
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Lol, harsh

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Kent, yeah thats it.
and, LOL.


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Van B
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He wants to make a MMORPG, we should invite him round!

I suppose most game creators have big plans, wonder how that'll pan out.

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Quote: "I suppose most game creators have big plans, wonder how that'll pan out.
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If it's anything like Daikatana we're in for a world of pain...

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Daikatana: Online...

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Chris K
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"Why suffer alone?"

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Kentaree
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On a sidenote, I just read wikipedia articles on both John Romero and on Daikatana, and I'm beginning to wonder why so many people idolize the man, as he's not exactly got a shining career after the last few years...

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I read an article on the making of Daikatana, and to be honest, you can kind of see why it turned out how it did. There were a tremendous quantity of issues that occurred during its development, one of which was the lead coder quitting (which is a bloody big blow to any project)

EDIT: If I recall actually, they had 4 or 5 Lead coders quit


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Quote: "EDIT: If I recall actually, they had 4 or 5 Lead coders quit"


Which should tell you a bit about how good Romero must be as a manager...

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His estimates for the finishing of the game were also off by about 2 years or so, which tells you what a programmer he must be

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Quote: "I read an article on the making of Daikatana, and to be honest, you can kind of see why it turned out how it did. There were a tremendous quantity of issues that occurred during its development, one of which was the lead coder quitting (which is a bloody big blow to any project)

EDIT: If I recall actually, they had 4 or 5 Lead coders quit"


I've read the same article, it's actually very interesting, but you still get the idea that Romero is a pretty big ass:
http://au.gamespot.com/features/btg-daikatana/

Btw, is it just me, or is the CSS on GameSpot screwed up?


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