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Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C

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Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C

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Post by foldor »

deagle50 wrote: post #30
hnlmorg wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It used to be the norm to write games in C. In fact it used to be the norm to write them in assembly, C was seen as a higher level abstraction that sped up games development once upon a time.

There's a good Diablo 1 "making of" video, the lead developer talks about learning C while coding the game in assembly. I'll try to find it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure most game devs of that era were doing something similar. It seems that once games went 3D, it was too impractical to do assembly anymore. So basically a lot of early PS1/N64/Saturn games were likely some pretty rough C code if I had to guess.

Re: Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C

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Post by meheleventyone »

foldor wrote: post #33
deagle50 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a good Diablo 1 "making of" video, the lead developer talks about learning C while coding the game in assembly. I'll try to find it.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure most game devs of that era were doing something similar. It seems that once games went 3D, it was too impractical to do assembly anymore. So basically a lot of early PS1/N64/Saturn games were likely some pretty rough C code if I had to guess.

It's less that but that the C tooling matured to the point where it was actually good enough to use. Particularly in terms of good enough output. Tight loops and often called functions were and sometimes still are (in SIMD terms) written in assembly so they could be hand optimized.

More exotic hardware also relied on the vendors providing a C compiler and the quality there could vary wildly.

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