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Graeme Devine Leaves id Software

Posted by simoniker on from the reasonably-surprising-news dept.

Thanks to Gamasutra.com for their news report (registration required) indicating that Graeme Devine has left id Software for Microsoft-owned Ensemble, the developers of the Age Of Empires series. The article elaborates: "Devine's career covers a substantial swath of videogame history, starting with porting games such as Pole Position for Atari while still in high school in the U.K. in the early 1980s. He later co-founded Trilobyte, where he was central to the development of the seminal CD-ROM title The 7th Guest and its follow-up, The 11th Hour. Most recently Devine was working on Doom 3 for id, in roles ranging from project manager to designer to programmer." Further details are as yet unavailable, but the piece suggests "..in his new role at Ensemble, Devine will be focusing primarily on game design."

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  1. Throws fist up in the air and says by The+Analog+Kid · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...damn, lost another one to the enemy.

  2. Give me a break by lidocaineus · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing was lost. A good game developer left one studio and joined another one, which, I might add, also makes good games. Simply because it has a "Microsoft" banner under it doesn't mean the games coming out of it are going to be unplayable. In fact, that's what we all want, right? Good games? Who cares where they come from.

    Grow up.

  3. A shame, for Mac users especially by Arkham · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Graeme has shown himself to be an asset to the Mac community. He did the OSX port of Quake 3, and did significant work on the port of Return to Castle Wolfenstein for OSX. He also did the Altivec version of Q3 that added about 20% to the framerate on my G4.

    I hope the id can get someone else with good Mac experience and dedication to ensure that the Mac ports of their games are as good as they can be.

    --
    - Vincit qui patitur.
  4. No so amazing by VikingBrad · · Score: 2, Informative
    Sandy Petersen, currently a game designer at Ensemble, used to work at id and also worked on the original Doom, Doom 2 & Quake.

    Also since they'll down Texas way it wouldn't be such a huge change.

    Petersen is working on a secret project unrelated to the Age series and I guess they need some more help. With the success of the Age series and now the financial backing of MS hiring great game designers is a smart move.

    Cheers

    VikingBrad