Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL

Re:Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL by BaculumMeumEst on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:16PM (#36556345)

i wish i could have been a fly on the wall at naughty dog during the development of these games.

or better yet, i wish andy gavin would get so unbelievably bored that he would brain dump every last detail he remembers about designing and implementing goal, or share the source. it’s tragic that knowledge and experience will vanish

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Re:Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL by phant0mas on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:36PM (#36556902)

I think he has an account here, he will see your comment:D

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Re:Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL by bitwize on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:16PM (#36557510)

That runs a risk of infringing on Sony's copyrights and trade secrets. He won't do it.

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Re:Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL by johnnyanmac on Saturday July 01, 2023 @11:40PM (#36558007)

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Re:Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL by davexunit on Sunday July 02, 2023 @12:13AM (#36558148)

Yeah he dumped a fair bit about GOOL, the precursor to GOAL for Crash Bandicoot, but not a peep about GOAL. Funny to see this on HN because I was just looking into all of this yesterday. I wish these old games could get a source release so we could just see the magic. PS1/PS2 era Naughty Dog and Insomniac were on another level. The decompiled GOAL code that's available is neat but it clearly is the code after macro expansion and potentially other passes have been done so it's no substitute for the original source.

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Re:Jak 2 Playable with OpenGOAL by phant0mas on Sunday July 02, 2023 @03:24AM (#36559133)

I think around the time of Jak 1 development they were acquired by Sony. As long as Sony doesn't shutdown the project, it's good enough!

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