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On Sunday 03 February 2002 15:20, Michael wrote:
> In case you might want to help sometime when I get to the actual coding of
> this project this book http://www.makegames.com/sidescroller/ has some
> useful information. Obviously a great deal of it is outdated as I don't
> plan on doing any direct hardware hacks or worrying about EGA graphics but
> as a whole it has a pretty good description of writing this sort of
> game.
Wow, I just looked at it. It's an awesome book. As for outdated, who cares?
The valuable stuff is not making hyper-optimized 486 assembly code that
squeezes stuff out of 256 megs of RAM, it's the art of creating a game. The
book actually spends a large part of the time looking at the creative side.
I sure don't see that going on in today's game writing books. It's all more
like 'here's how to create the quake 3d engine'.
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