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Matthias Ott

@tylersticka Oh yes, love it! Listened to an interview with Romero a while ago and it was a treat. The only thing I didn’t like was when he said that building prototypes is a waste of time… 😂 (Don’t tell @davatron5000!)

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Tyler Sticka

@matthiasott @davatron5000 I’m surprised to hear he said that after reading his book! Lots of examples of steps his teams have taken that map to our use of prototypes.

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Matthias Ott

@tylersticka @davatron5000 Yes, maybe he was talking about a certain phase only, when he, Carmack et al. were building Wolfenstein 3D.

I found it. It was in an interview with Tim “modal popover” Ferriss:
tim.blog/2023/07/12/john-romer

So to get that many games done that fast, you can’t be playing around with making prototypes. Prototypes are like, let’s test this and see if it works, and let’s test that and see it — there’s no testing. It’s like, here’s the game that we’re going to make, here are all the characters that go in the game, here’s how many levels we have, here are all the pieces of the levels that need to be drawn, here’s all the animations that need to be created, all the tools that need to be programmed, all that stuff. There’s no way to do any prototyping if you’re going to get done in two months with four people. So we had no prototypes. We knew how to code already. So because we can just see it in our minds, we can just visualize it, and we communicated with each other just going, okay, it’s going to look like this on the screen.
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Tyler Sticka

@matthiasott @davatron5000 That makes a lot more sense! Thanks for tracking that down!

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