I think Richard is a cool guy personally. Great story teller, however, didn 't actually get or really care about MMOs which is what irks me he gets credit for creating Ultima Online and by extension credit for creating the modern MMO genre when he frankly had little to do ...
Nice article. I like your comprehensive, yet, concise coverage of a topic that has a lot of moving parts. The nice thing about loose file patching is you provide an easy, automatic safety net to recover from client-side problems such as corrupted files another reason to forgo delta binary patching ...
Good point, Kevin. When I read through the article, my take was that their mindset was don 't be evil common amongst indie developers who are doing it first and foremost for love and passion and didn 't want their players and fans to feel they were contorting the game ...
Linux needs to substantially improve it 's 3rd party distribution and have a longer-term binary backwards and forwards compatibility vision. This is what made Windows such a strong dominant OS for the past 20 years. I can compile and distribute a binary that just works on nearly every flavor of ...
