"Nobody programs in machine language" (was: Modern

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Jun 22 12:19:26 2004

> Modern games (as in most anything past the 8-bit era) are written
> predominately if not exclusively in higher level languages (C, C++ or C#)
> and rely much more on content (story, textures, skins, etc.) than anything
> that has to be written in machine language for success. And the engines
> driving these games haven't been written in machine (or assembly) in a long,
> long time. Modern games use DirectX or OpenGL and are written in high level
> languages.

A serious gamer I know says that there are actualy fairly few graphics
engines out there - many game companies buy the right to use existing
ones.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 12:19:26 BST