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Game Developer - August 2007
AUGUST 2007
THE LEADING GAME INDUSTRY MAGAZINE
HOW AND WHY STUDIOS
NEED THESE OXYMORONS
>> CODERS MOUTH OFF
EXCLUSIVE ROUNDTABLE
WITH FIVE PROGRAMMERS
>> THE INNER PRODUCT
PAINTING WITH DOMAIN
SPECIFIC LANGUAGES
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AUGUST 2007
VOLUME 14, NUMBER 7
FEATURES
7 PROGRAMMERS’ ROUNDTABLE
In this exclusive roundtable interview,
five top technophiles discuss what’s
right and wrong with game
programming these days, from
in-house procedures to multi-processor
systems to code reuse.
With Brad Bulkley, Stuart Denman, Chris Hecker,
Clinton Keith, and Bruce Rogers
17 THE CODE/ART DIVIDE:
HOW TECHNICAL ARTISTS
BRIDGE THE GAP
Game studio Volition (T HE P UNISHER ,
S AINTS R OW ) makes a case for hiring a
few technical artists, their value
ranging from time savings to smoother
in-house communication. As linchpins,
technical artists keep programmers
and artists bonded in their mutual
cause, helping to ensure that each
department gets what it needs from the
other—and within reason according to
the project’s schedule.
By Jason Hayes
7
22
POSTMORTEM
22 FINAL FANTASY XII
The twelfth installment in Square Enix’s wildly popular series was developed
in a fashion quite unlike the others. No one on the team had worked on a
major F INAL F ANTASY title before, and most had been accustomed to mid-
sized projects, not massive ones. General manager of R&D Taku Murata
focuses more on what went wrong in this ingenuous postmortem.
By Taku Murata
17
DEPARTMENTS
COLUMNS
2 GAME PLAN By Brandon Sheffield
An E3 Without Developers
33 THE INNER PRODUCT By Mick West
[ PROGRAMMING ]
Domain-Specific Languages
4 HEADS UP DISPLAY
Game developers’ census, the big three at E3, and more.
39 PIXEL PUSHER By Steve Theodore
[ ART ]
Fight the Good Fight
28 SKUNK WORKS By Tom Carroll
3DConnexion’s SpaceNavigator, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended,
and product news.
43 GAME SHUI By Noah Falstein
[ DESIGN ]
Hybrid Vigor
44 AURAL FIXATION By Jesse Harlin
[ SOUND ]
Vox Populi
64 BUSINESS LEVEL By Nicholas Beliaeff
[ BUSINESS ]
More of What They Want
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THIS YEAR’S E3 WAS ONE OF THE ODDER GAME
events I’ve been to over the years, due in large
part to the fact that very few of you were there.
I spent most of my time either trudging through
the streets of Santa Monica, determined not to
cancel or postpone any appointments (sorry, id
Software), or sitting in my hotel, clacking away on
a company-loaned Powerbook, trying to turn my
high-level interviews into low-level sensationalist
news stories for the game blogs to hoover up.
It was a decidedly different E3. Gone were the
glitz and glamour of previous years—no booth
babes, no loud music, no swag. And yet, for all its
bells and whistles, in those days I found myself
typing on the floor of the press room most of the
time, rather than from the balcony of a swanky
Best Western. (Any hotel is a luxury to me.) I
found the new experience alternately more classy
and less classy, depending on the moment.
HAND-HOLDING
Some folks, like the guys I met from id (after
rescheduling—sorry again!), found the show to
be a resounding success, with meetings aplenty
and no foot traffic to bog them down. Others, like
EA, were less convinced, wondering where the
retail, investor, and business development
meetings had all gone.
From my perspective, I came away knowing just
as little about the upcoming crop of games as I did
going in. My hands-on time with games was
extremely limited, and not just by time
constraints. A lot of games were simply on display
and not meant for actual play, and the nature of
the event just didn’t lend itself to casually
checking out new stuff. Meetings were booked
specifically well before the show, and in some
cases, you had to be escorted through a given
company’s show space by a PR representative.
Any developer who managed to get to the show
in the first place, and then leave his or her hotel,
would have had a hard time seeing what the
competition was up to.
Penny Arcade, which generously let us publish
one of its comics this month (see Game Shui, page
43) , mentioned that E3 seemed to be just as well
“attended” by watching the live video streamed
from the event. From a gamer’s perspective, the
observation was spot on.
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The fact that the main event was spread out over
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able to find, but that would be another problem.
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games showcase area. Given that it was five miles
away from the main drag, it was sparsely
attended, even though the indie and serious
games showcases were there. It felt like the back
of the bus.
THE CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN
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funeral march for E3 after the final day, with booth
babes made up like corpses, masked actors on
stilts, black umbrellas, mourning widows, and a
eulogy from a man in a gray suit, suspenders, and
a blonde wig.
I didn’t really feel like E3 was going to disappear,
but it was certainly not going to be like this again
next year. Too many important people were
disappointed. For my part, I managed to make it
work, and met some interesting people. But in this
case, it was a matter of poking holes in the drab
exterior of the show, rather than soaking in energy
from a bombardment of games, people, and
experiences that the old E3 represented.
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sure it wasn’t better for you. After all, you
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