Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
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Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
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Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#2Not mentioned: written in Allegro Common Lisp (for the IDE on SGIs) and Scheme/GOOL running on the Playstation.
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#3Not mentioned: written in Allegro Common Lisp (for the IDE on SGIs) and Scheme/GOOL running on the Playstation.
I was waiting for the first lisp-related comment. You win, lispm.
The new remaster is a completely new engine apparently, so it's gone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6imvro/a_remaster_wi...
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#4Not mentioned: written in Allegro Common Lisp (for the IDE on SGIs) and Scheme/GOOL running on the Playstation.
I was waiting for the first lisp-related comment. You win, lispm. The new remaster is a completely new engine apparently, so it's gone. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6imvro/a_remaster_wi...
Had to be recreated without access to the original source code? How sad.
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#5As someone who never played Crash Bandicoot, I immediately did a text search for "Baggett" to see if Dave Baggett mentions the bug that literally comes up in every online discussion about craziest debugging stories ever [0] and is the first thing I think about when I hear Crash Bandicoot mentioned. Surprisingly, it doesn't, but Baggett has a bunch of other interesting anecdotes about his work. CB doesn't look like my type of game, but ever since buying a PS4 (had a PS2 previously), I've snapped up Naughty Dog games based on my high estimation of their development quality (and, well, the high review scores that their games always seem to get).
[0] http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/M...
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#6Not mentioned: written in Allegro Common Lisp (for the IDE on SGIs) and Scheme/GOOL running on the Playstation.
further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#7As someone who never played Crash Bandicoot, I immediately did a text search for "Baggett" to see if Dave Baggett mentions the bug that literally comes up in every online discussion about craziest debugging stories ever [0] and is the first thing I think about when I hear Crash Bandicoot mentioned. Surprisingly, it doesn't, but Baggett has a bunch of other interesting anecdotes about his work. CB doesn't look like my…
forgot this story; archived link in case https://archive.fo/QNut8
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#8Not mentioned: written in Allegro Common Lisp (for the IDE on SGIs) and Scheme/GOOL running on the Playstation.
Giant Bomb did a great interview with one of the longtime Naughty Dog devs where he talks about the old Crash and Jax engine: https://www.giantbomb.com/videos/an-uncharted-tech-retrospec...
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#9As someone who never played Crash Bandicoot, I immediately did a text search for "Baggett" to see if Dave Baggett mentions the bug that literally comes up in every online discussion about craziest debugging stories ever [0] and is the first thing I think about when I hear Crash Bandicoot mentioned. Surprisingly, it doesn't, but Baggett has a bunch of other interesting anecdotes about his work. CB doesn't look like my…
On a related note, Dave Baggett is also the co-founder of ITA which sold to Google for a reported 700 million.
Re: Crash Bandicoot: An oral history
#10Andy Gavin wrote a series on the creation of Crash Bandicoot [1]. It covers some of the intricate details and compromises of developing for the Playstation. It's one of my favorite pieces of writing, definitely recommend it to anyone who likes development articles.
[1] http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...