Re:You don't need millions of dollars
by mseebach on Friday October 18, 2013 @11:05AM
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What has changed isn't the opportunities of good programmer - they can still have very solid careers. I am not convinced that a developer could successfully build a game as good as Quake just on the strength of being a good programmer. He would also need to be a good game designer.
What has changed is the opportunities of good game designers, and tons of other fields that can much easier leverage the awesome power of computing to achieve success.
EDIT:
> As I remember Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky took venture capital to take off stack overflow. (And also they had a huge following even before starting that venture.)
I don't think his point was that StackOverflow was an example of something that was easy to build, I think he meant is as a example of a resource that didn't exist when Carmack wrote DOOM.
What has changed is the opportunities of good game designers, and tons of other fields that can much easier leverage the awesome power of computing to achieve success.
EDIT:
> As I remember Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky took venture capital to take off stack overflow. (And also they had a huge following even before starting that venture.)
I don't think his point was that StackOverflow was an example of something that was easy to build, I think he meant is as a example of a resource that didn't exist when Carmack wrote DOOM.