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Good Morning, Professor Romero
The Man With The Green Hair writes: "According to this story over at The Dallas Morning News, John Romero and Tom Hall both formally of ION Storm, will be teaching a class next semester at The University of Texas at Dallas where they will be instructing computer science majors on the finer points of game programming and design."
Won't Great Teacher Romero be suprised when he finds out these classes are all male!
I hope that they'll be teaching those kids how NOT to write games like Daikatana. :)
Anachronox, maybe.
Romero?!
Those who can, do... Those who can't, teach.
Course: Theory of Game Design with ION Storm
Credits:2
Hours:2
Class Begins: Real Soon Now
"OK so to sum up...
'Dai' means 'big'
and 'Katana' means 'Katana'.
OK let's break for soda."
DD
"You can justify anything by putting it in quotes, adding a famous name and making it a sig" - Albert Einstein
Just don't turn up late for class, these guys are packing mini-nukes and chainsaw weaponry.
This is a class where the teacher will try to make you his bitch
I hate to agree with davecrazy but...
I wonder what happens if you turn in an assignment late?
I'd sign up in a nanosecond.
Lesson 1: Spend millions to start with a huge company.
Lesson 2: ???
Lesson 3: Profit!
"At the beginning of the class, each of you will pick either Superfly Johnson or Mikiko Ebihara as your lab partner. If they fail the course, you fail the course.
Don't worry though as your lab partners are coded with an advanced "node-based AI system", and should be a valuable and innovation part of your lab experience."
Honestly, what has Romero got to teach anybody? How to be a success in the early 1990's and then live off of it for the rest of your life? What does he know about creating games in 2002, other than how not to do it?
He deserves a little respect for Doom, but that doesn't mean that it's sensible to listen to anything that he has to say now.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
"Oh, no need to worry about that. Things are coming along fine."
"But it's March! Your class was scheduled to conclude in December, like all the other fall semester classes!"
"Well, Dean, you can't rush quality work."
"And speaking of quality, that's another thing! You syllabus stated that you would be covering ten programming modules, the final one of which was 'Creating a Game Engine,' but your students are still working on Module 2, 'Creating Cool Cinematic Cutscreens."
"Well, I felt spending extra time on cutscreens was the most important thing we could do to generate hype over the class and ensure funding for next year."
"And that's another issue! You were given a fixed budget of $500 for class supplies for the semester. So far you've spent $156,000!"
"Dean, you just can't put a price on quality."
"Actually, I can. As Dean, managing the budget is part of my job. Moreover, Professor Spector at UT Austin managed to finish his class on time, on budget, and with five times as many students as yours...."
Lawrence Person (lawrencepersonh@gmailh.com (remove all "h"s to mail)
http://www.lawrenceperson.com/
This class sounds awesome!
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
a "ready made excuse?" Something like "I'm sorry, members of the trustees, but John Romero backed his car into a campus construction traffic sign, he claims he didn't see it. Yes, I know, I've seen how small the rear windows are on his Ferrari. Anywhoo, he has demanded that we buy him a new one, citing that he can no longer be a "nerd king" in a Ferrari with Bondo on it. We'll just have to raise tuition to cover it."
That you can't leave class without your pal, SuperFly.
You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
-- Colonel Adolphus Busch
To ace the class, you must first kill me, John Romero...
(if you don't get that, play the final level of doom 2)
$ make love
make: don't know how to make love. Stop