- zephorah ( @zephorah@lemm.ee ) 6•21 days ago
Where’d they go? Larian?
- blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 9•21 days ago
Dragon Age: Origins came out 15 years ago. That’s a very long time to stay with the same company in the tech sector. It’s not at all unusual that there are so few people left who worked with the engine for the first game.
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 5•21 days ago
So they can’t get 3 of them to spend a week to write a primer for new devs?
- deadcream ( @deadcream@sopuli.xyz ) 3•21 days ago
They are probably an experienced team members that are needed on ME5, and management decided that they can’t distract them. And these new devs would spend a lot of time figuring out a completely unfamiliar codebase (also creating a proper remaster would also necessitate a lot of low-level changes to the engine which will make it much harder). So it’s a business decision, not technical one.
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 4•21 days ago
Exactly, it’s “won’t” not “can’t”.
Even with zero legacy staff they could assign people to learn/document the old engine if there was enough potential revenue.