Daily reminder that Chris Sawyer coded Rollercoaster Tycoon by himself in x86 assembly. In a cave, with a box of scraps.
That’s probably mostly true but optimisation is becoming a lost art from that some devs just don’t know.
apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s a negative feedback loop.
The less time you can spend optimizing games the less you know how to optimize games. The less you know how to optimize games the more time it takes to optimize games. Optimizing games becomes too costly for management. Goto 10.