[modi123_1]

http://www.codeofhon...-is-this-anyway

A fun read by a guy that's been around the video game industry with a bit of "behind the curtain" look at how things, in a less glamorous fashion, get done.

(Side note - in general a great blog to follow.)

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At a certain point in every programmer’s career we each find a bug that seems impossible because the code is right, dammit! So it must be the operating system, the tools or the computer that’s causing the problem. Right?!?

Today’s story is about some of those bugs I’ve discovered in my career.

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Patrick’s first original PC title, Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans, where he reprised the roles of Producer and Lead Programmer, leading the development team as well as writing most of the game’s code.

Following on the success of that project, Patrick again led the production and programming effort for Warcraft II

In his role as Vice President of Research and Development at Blizzard, Patrick led the development efforts for Starcraft,

Patrick found time to program extensively on Diablo and Diablo II,

Patrick restructured and re-coded the battle.net architecture to remove bottlenecks,

Patrick, along with his co-founders Jeff Strain and Mike O’Brien, lead ArenaNet to release Guild Wars, an

Patrick wrote the unique streaming technology for Guild Wars that enables players to rapidly join games without requiring those players to download the entire game beforehand

[ButchDean]

Nice little read.