), is a Dutch
computer programmer notable for his work in game programming
as well as having designed several programming language
s. He has a Masters degree in computational linguistics
from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD
in computer science
from the University of Southampton
.
Currently he is a professor for Software Development
at the Guildhall of the Southern Methodist University
.
In the context of games, he has worked on Far Cry
and is the creator of the open source
game engines Cube and Cube 2.
You kill stuff. The End.
You kill more stuff. The End.
[..] But I like the "windoze" spelling (much like "micro$oft", "MSFT", "GNU/linux" etc), as it helps me seperate out the irrational religious fanatics from the rest.
Far Cry is a commercial product, so porting it to linux makes no sense at all (out of the 3.5 linux players wanting to play it, 3 will cry that it has to be free).
Realism is what makes games suck.
People don't understand what an insane engineering effort making a solid MMORPG is. Pretty much 100% of people on the net who say they will be making an MMORPG are dumbasses who don't understand game development (yes, 100%.. those few people who DO understand it are a rounding error).
A day not partied or programmed is a day wasted.
Just because lots of lemmings run off a cliff doesn't make cliffs a good place to be.