Re: never ending story

Re: never ending story

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Posted by Jean-René on September 08, 2000 at 00:45:18:

In Reply to: never ending story posted by Handsome on September 06, 2000 at 09:24:41:

> dear developers of this great peace of software, over one year ago, i asked one of your programmers, when defcon would be ready to download. he told me maybe september, okay, september past and a whole year past and nothing is finished!! do you really think, there will be ever anything to download on your side???
> by the way, how can you survive with no product for sale and big amounts of develpment-costs??

> best regards

First of all, we really try to estimate to the best of our ability the delay to finish Defcon. It's not easy since we're dealing with new technology, a huge project, and no one is really working full time.

One thing I don't want to do is release a crappy product. I would like it even more than you if I could finish Defcon today. These past two years, I coded about 450,000 lines of computer code. That's a lot of math. That's about 30 novels of 300 pages, if it was to be printed. More than one per month. And I translated the entire machine code to Windows (including DirectX) in about 3 weeks. I would guess that's not too bad.

You can't judge us based on professionnal companies. I would love to have the ressources id software has. I don't. I work in my bedroom. And I study full time, and I do freelance work to have money. An established company would have finished by now. But they would have put 30 people on the task for maybe 18-24 months, and spent anything from 3 millions to 20 millions dollars.

Based on what it takes to create a professionnal quality game, and since we're only 2 or 3 actually working on the game itself, I could say that it should take us anything from 15 to 20 years to complete. And this is if we'd work full time. We've been working on it for a little more than 3 years, and we're way past half of it.

So my estimate is that we're working pretty fast. I'm living a lifestyle that takes a huge toll on my health and my family life to create this as fast as possible. I'm just hoping that some of you understand that, and understand the incredible amount of energy it takes to create something like that.

And to answer your question, I support the company financially.

Jean-René Couture
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> > dear developers of this great peace of software, over one year ago, i asked one of your programmers, when defcon would be ready to download. he told me maybe september, okay, september past and a whole year past and nothing is finished!! do you really think, there will be ever anything to download on your side??? > > by the way, how can you survive with no product for sale and big amounts of develpment-costs?? > > best regards > First of all, we really try to estimate to the best of our ability the delay to finish Defcon. It's not easy since we're dealing with new technology, a huge project, and no one is really working full time. > One thing I don't want to do is release a crappy product. I would like it even more than you if I could finish Defcon today. These past two years, I coded about 450,000 lines of computer code. That's a lot of math. That's about 30 novels of 300 pages, if it was to be printed. More than one per month. And I translated the entire machine code to Windows (including DirectX) in about 3 weeks. I would guess that's not too bad. > You can't judge us based on professionnal companies. I would love to have the ressources id software has. I don't. I work in my bedroom. And I study full time, and I do freelance work to have money. An established company would have finished by now. But they would have put 30 people on the task for maybe 18-24 months, and spent anything from 3 millions to 20 millions dollars. > Based on what it takes to create a professionnal quality game, and since we're only 2 or 3 actually working on the game itself, I could say that it should take us anything from 15 to 20 years to complete. And this is if we'd work full time. We've been working on it for a little more than 3 years, and we're way past half of it. > So my estimate is that we're working pretty fast. I'm living a lifestyle that takes a huge toll on my health and my family life to create this as fast as possible. I'm just hoping that some of you understand that, and understand the incredible amount of energy it takes to create something like that. > And to answer your question, I support the company financially. > Jean-René Couture > Anonymes Informatique

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