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Brian Hook Interview

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-the-game-market dept.

A reader writes:"I just read this very in-depth interview with Brian Hook on a site called Curmudgeon Gamer. Hook used to work for id Software (Quake 2 and 3) and later for Verant (Everquest) and he apparently worked on Glide for the old 3DFX cards. Now he runs his own smaller game company called Pyrogon. In the interview he talks about development styles of Q2 and Q3, MMORPGs, the lessons of 3DFX, and development of cross-platform games like his Candy Cruncher (which is available for MacOSX and Linux!). He even gets into some criticism of modern games and the life of a smaller game developer. Lengthy read, but lots of stuff to think about there since he tells it like he sees it."

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  1. Slashdot makes webserver spell not good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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    1. Re:Slashdot makes webserver spell not good by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 3, Funny

      *sound of /.ing explosion*

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    2. Re:Slashdot makes webserver spell not good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Slashdot continues its campaign of "Shock and Awe".

    3. Re:Slashdot makes webserver spell not good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      All your joke are belong to last year.

  2. They can do THAT on Linux?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If CandyCrusher is the best that an innovator like Hook can do for Linux, the future for Free is indeed bleak.

  3. Uh-oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Incidentally, "Pyrogon" is a (poorly-disguised) anagram of "Porygon," the Pokemon that gave all those Japanese kids seizures in that infamous TV show. Do I smell a conspiracy?

    1. Re:Uh-oh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Let's hope so!

  4. Re:Brian Hook Speech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Shut up you old fart. My l33t programming skillz could destroy you.

  5. Re:modern trends are too predictable by 10Ghz · · Score: 2, Funny
    spending hours making houses and watching simulated people... ...Is something else. Not sure what yet.


    One vote for "sad"
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