Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling

Re:Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling by adamddev1 on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:49AM (#36905093)

Carmack talked about how they released those first games on the Lex Friedman podcast. Having a previous framework and pipeline seemed to help get them out really quick.

https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4

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Re:Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling by HNDen21 on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:30AM (#36906500)

See also John Romero on the Tim Ferriss podcast a few weeks ago https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/681-doom-legend-john-r...

He talked how they were always working on 2 games and would do a press release with a shipping date before they more or less even started lol

Romero just released a new book 10 days ago... Doom Guy: Life in First Person https://amzn.to/43M0rSg

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Re:Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling by beardedmoose on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:50PM (#36909684)

Great book so far BTW. Man, Romero had an interesting/rough childhood, that's for sure.

The crazy part was also working 2 full time jobs essentially, 8 hours at softdisk then they would use those PCs at night for 8 hours to crank out their private games, also borrowing them on the weekends to get more work done.

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Re:Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling by auselen on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:52AM (#36920333)

I understand that they could work 16 hours a day, but I wouldn’t believe they can separate two businesses like that. I would have told the same thing though.

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