Every Resident Evil scientist memo
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“I cross-bred a silverback gorilla with a preying mantis then gave it AK-47s for arms. Bob has been poking it with a stick non-stop for 80 hours now. Hopefully it doesn’t escape.”
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“It escaped.”
How MicroSoft murdered Ensemble.
In a side note, Elon Musk himself dropped in on my Quake thread from a night ago. Sir - with respect, what are you doing commenting on my puny thread? Go take humanity to Mars!
Anyway, Microsoft's purchase of Ensemble (as described yesterday) was great for us. Our worthless Ensemble stock became valuable MicroSoft stock. I paid off my house. And MicroSoft's ownership didn't change much because they were already our publisher and we already had spent time working with their idiot marketers.
MicroSoft had learned lessons. When they bought FASA, they moved the company to Redmond, broken it up in different teams (different buildings even) and then FASA basically never did much again. When they bought Bungie, they moved them to Redmond, but kept them all in the same building working together. It took Bungie 6 months before they were able to produce. So when they bought us, they just left us in situe, in Dallas, figuring we'd become an awesome cash cow. Which we did.
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@vitoralmeidasil Amazing. Before I was a professional, programming and especially modding games felt magical. It still does. Especially with the level of technology back then.
Happy birthday, Quake! Started coding at 9 on MSX with BASIC, but lived & breathed QuakeC modding in the mid-90s. Pure fun & learning! Even then I was a heavy IDE user: my setup was QcAPE (QuakeC Advanced Programming Environment), Qoole, frikqcc & qME. Good times!