Making video games is very difficult. Shipping even a small game can take years of work. Creating a custom engine is a very time and resource consuming feature, which is why many developers use Unreal, Unity, or another existing engine to help speed up the development process. It’s all too common, but a brutal example from the PlayStation 2 days came to light recently in an interview with new director Glen Schofield. Callisto protocol.
at recent days , Callisto protocol Released to… mixed reviews, shall we say (how ambitious it was for Ashley Burton, despite some annoying odds). But to help publicize the director’s new horror game Glenn Scofield Walking around to interviews and what to do. Two weeks ago he made a video Wired Where he responds to random tweets about the development of the game. There was a reveal of the funniest little things about a celebrity Lord of the rings The game he worked on at EA.
in The Wired videoSchofield (ex-employee dead space And Call of duty) answers the question of why developers don’t build their own engines and use existing technology instead. The director explains that it is very expensive and time-consuming to do this today, and it is always better to use an old engine and rebuild it, as they did at EA.
Licensed in 2003 when it was produced The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, his team spent a year on the new game engine. Things went slowly, however, and the match had a difficult time frame to win. So, he looked at the different engines EA was using for their games at the time and found some technologies that could reproduce them. Strangely, he concluded that the latest Tiger wood Golf was the perfect engine.
“Lord of the rings Large spaces and at the end a castle or something like that, around a castle. what does it look like Tiger woodScofield explained, “The long sections, where you’re going to eat at the end, I’m done. So we took Tiger wood machine and convert it to a file Lord of the rings Machine.”
Now, that’s fun and interesting in and of itself. But one last piece popped up today on Twitter. it turns out, According to the former EA developerSome people have changed that Lord of the rings The visual effects code was later reused on the PSP Tiger wood A game that makes smoke when you hit the ball.
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Apparently a PSP icon Tiger wood The game contains references to Gandalf and others LotR Even the characters. As always, game development is chaotic and endlessly fascinating.