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Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore
imashoe writes "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming."
Given that I've only seen videos of someone else playing "Spore", I have to say, no, I don't wonder how it works. I wonder when the hell it'll be done.
The cake is a pie
to generate one meaningful article about it? since apparently it's good at increasing noise by putting out fluff pieces as this one.
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Actually I never even heard of Spore.
Yeah who here is sick and tired of crates being everywhere in games. I hardly ever see crates in my day to day.
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I kept jumping up, punching this one crate, just waiting for the gold coins or extra man to come out. Instead, one of the loading dock guys just chased me away.
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who literally know *zip*. I just dipped my toes in the article, and lines like "procedural programming is ... object oriented..." snapped any suspenders of belief I had in the article.
Of course, it'll be smaller and faster than Objectionably-oriented software....
mark
Sure, it's infinite until the computer tracking your winnings hits it's floating point limit, throws an exception and crashes losing all your winnings.
Every time I start to have faith in humanity, I ruin it by driving to work between 7 and 8 am.
A little help please? Does anyone have a slashdot-editor-to-enlgish translator?
Nah. Procedural programming is indeed what made a project of this complexity possible. Just try to program Spore in line-number Basic, I dare you.
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This article makes baby von Neumann cry
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
This all sounds very interesting.. have any links to your games we could look at?
As a game programmer, I'm actually offended by this article. Why do I get the feeling it was written by a football jock who used to bash me (and other game programmers) up at high school? I was going to list the mistakes made in the article, but realized the entire article (even its name) is wrong. I spent 5 minutes looking around Slashdot for a "Bury" button, can someone contact the Slashdot President and tell him to launch a preemptive military strike on any future articles of this quality.
... and COBOL
Yes I noticed poster tagged the article "wrong."
Good god, you silly putties...
Why do you bother typing in these comments? No one thinks you're any smarter now than they did before reading your message. If anything, they think you don't have a sense of humour.
Next time just aim for the barrel next to the loading dock guy. Kaboom!
Wrong? He did say quake 2 first then unreal.
;).
Heavily modified or not it's not really that big a deal since it's heavily not here yet
What went wrong?
Have you ever been part of a thread involving three or more slashdot users?
Ladies and gentlemen, I present exhibit 'A'.