Sid Meier's contribution to CivIII revealed!

[Sarxis]

From the recent gamespy interview:

"GameSpin: How much did Sid Meier contribute?

Johnson: Sid played the game constantly. He was very focused on making sure that the stayed fun. He was our number one play tester, really."

What a job!

[drake]

So basically he just lended his name to the project

[CapTVK]

Does anybody notice a pattern :

Civ 1 : Sid is the main programmer
Civ 2 : Concentrates on game design Brian Reynolds is main programmer
Civ 3 : Sid is a playtester
Civ 4 : .......?


You get the picture

[drake]

4) sid retires and enjoys his royalty checks

[Dida]

this is logical. programming is a ****ing boring job. for people who has the influence and power, he needs not to write the code himself. for the same thing, Bill Gates didn't write a line of code in Windows XP>

[Tventano]

Designing and checking if ideas really work is much more challenging and intersting job than just coding something. If you have nobody else to do the job, ofcourse you have to get dirty fingers yourself. If you can hire people to do the job for you, concentrating on design issues is much more efficient. For the day-to-day testing they had some other personel ;-)

[Asesino_Virtual]

Originally posted by Dida
this is logical. programming is a ****ing boring job. for people who has the influence and power, he needs not to write the code himself. for the same thing, Bill Gates didn't write a line of code in Windows XP>

Hahaha, are u fu**ing crazy?. Programming is the BEST part of a game. It can be as addictive as playing a game. Whats better, play with something u have to adjust at, or play a game that u are programming that if u see something u want to change, just open the editor and add the code lines?

Think it. Programming is a great experience.

[Pembleton]

Originally posted by Tventano
Designing and checking if ideas really work is much more challenging and intersting job than just coding something.

Um...have you ever programmed something?

Coding is very difficult and tedious. Designing is much more interesting, yes, but not more challenging.

[Earthling7]

Originally posted by Asesino_Virtual
Think it. Programming is a great experience.

Uh, yes... I'll take your word for it.

[Inverse Icarus]

maybe its just me but i love it when something i code comes to life and does my malicious bidding .

but i have to admit when i fail at something for a while i get mad and throw things (during a game of CS at a lan party i threw my mouse through my monitor.

[SteveJH]

Originally posted by Jingo
maybe its just me but i love it when something i code comes to life and does my malicious bidding .

but i have to admit when i fail at something for a while i get mad and throw things (during a game of CS at a lan party i threw my mouse through my monitor.

Geez, what do you have? A metal plated mouse?

[Inverse Icarus]

it was an old school optical mouse, with it's share of heavy plastic

[Tventano]

Um...have you ever programmed something?

I think it was in 1979 I programmed my first game on a Casio calculator. My studies I finished with a fortran program and still on my work I try to code something every week. But with designing, talking and organizing you just get much more work done.

Do you think that qualifies for something?

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Jingo
maybe its just me but i love it when something i code comes to life and does my malicious bidding .

but i have to admit when i fail at something for a while i get mad and throw things (during a game of CS at a lan party i threw my mouse through my monitor.

Have you ever considered the virtues of sedatives?

[fanatic civver]

but i have to admit when i fail at something for a while i get mad and throw things (during a game of CS at a lan party i threw my mouse through my monitor.

You'd better avoid deity level when civ3 comes out