Carmack GDC Keynote Rambles Fascinatingly On Re-Use

Posted by simoniker on Friday March 26, 2004 @06:31AM from the no-notes-mean-many-tangents dept.

Thanks to GameSpy for its coverage of id co-founder John Carmack's keynote speech at Game Developer's Conference. Ideas discussed include the now-dismissed concept to do a 'Quake 2 remix' - "to rebuild the game using all-new assets and technology", as Carmack pointed out: "...even the idea of just reskinning an old game brings with it the problems that as we have newer graphics technology, media creation demands get worse and worse." Of follow-ups to DOOM 3, Carmack also mentioned that "they were hoping to re-use some of the assets created for DOOM 3 to help speed up development of whatever they do next, but even that would have a tradeoff."

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Assets by elasticwings · 2004-03-26 10:42 · Score: 4, Funny

Carmack also mentioned that "they were hoping to re-use some of the assets created for DOOM 3 to help speed up development of whatever they do next, but even that would have a tradeoff."

How about lending some "assets" to 3Drealms to help speed up the development of Duke Nukem Forever. God knows, they're due for another engine switchover.