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Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into Rev
Posted By: Matt <matt@bungie.com>Date: 2/18/00 11:41 a.m.

In Response To: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into Review? (Dreamcatcher)

If I may elaborate on Joseph's statements:

Sometimes you need a build for a show where lots of people are going to be looking at it. There is a definite deadline for this build. Usually that deadline does not coincide with the time you plan on being finished with the game.

In order to get a working build in time for the show, you need to cobble it together from parts that aren't necessarily finished yet. In some cases you may not even have started on certain components. So you have to jerry-rig something.

This does not mean adding features to a public demo that will not be in the final game. Rather, we approximate features that will actually work much better in the final game.

When we get back home, all the jerry-rigged stuff is taken out to make way for the real code, which will work better but may take several months to complete. Having satisfied the public with a glimpse of the game, the development team returns to its real work.

The movie displayed at MacWorld NY, the Incite footage, pretty much everything you've seen of Halo so far is unfinished. That means it's going to get better as we refine it. In terms of the graphics and effects (not to mention gameplay), we are not ripping out the cool stuff. We are making the cool stuff that's already in there work better, and adding more cool stuff as time goes by.

Think about it: what purpose would it serve to pour years of work into a demo for MWNY, then throw all that stuff out and release a lesser product? We'd only hurt ourselves.

-Matt


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Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into Review?Dreamcatcher 2/18/00 12:39 a.m.
     Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into RevNijhazer 2/18/00 12:53 a.m.
           Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into Reveric 2/18/00 9:05 a.m.
     Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into RevMark Levin 2/18/00 1:04 a.m.
           Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into RevXZCion 2/18/00 2:50 a.m.
                 Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into Reveric 2/18/00 9:03 a.m.
           Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into RevSputnik 2/18/00 9:19 a.m.
                 Realistic release date (conflict with Oni?)Stephen White 2/18/00 11:15 a.m.
                       Re: Realistic release date (conflict with Oni?)eric 2/18/00 2:04 p.m.
                       Nethack Plus? (OT)Lodurr 2/18/00 2:17 p.m.
                             Nope (NT)Stephen White 2/20/00 10:44 a.m.
     Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into Revmenace 2/18/00 10:02 a.m.
     Be afraid... be very afraidDave Fin' 2/18/00 10:52 a.m.
           Re: Be afraid... be very afraidMatt 2/18/00 11:13 a.m.
                 Re: Be afraid... be very afraidGoldenBoy 2/18/00 11:25 a.m.
                       Re: Be afraid... be very afraidMatt 2/18/00 11:43 a.m.
                             OT, but related to Haloskyblu38 2/18/00 7:59 p.m.
                                   Re: OT, but related to HaloGoldenBoy 2/21/00 2:58 a.m.
                                         Ingnorance I meant ignorance N/TGoldenBoy 2/21/00 5:44 a.m.
                                         Re: OT, but related to HaloStryker 2/21/00 11:30 a.m.
                                               Re: OT, but related to HaloGoldenBoy 2/22/00 6:21 a.m.
                                                     Re: OT, NOT related to HaloStryker 2/22/00 7:23 p.m.
                                   Re: OT, but related to HaloMatt 2/21/00 10:59 a.m.
                                         ESRB =? (nt)Dead Glory 2/23/00 5:06 a.m.
                                               Re: ESRB =?Mark Levin 2/23/00 12:40 p.m.
                                         Re: OT, but related to HaloReconN 2/23/00 10:24 a.m.
     Re: Am I Paranoid or am I reading to much into RevMatt 2/18/00 11:41 a.m.
     Re: Thanks Matt... :)Dreamcatcher 2/18/00 10:15 p.m.



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