{"id":180,"date":"2008-07-01T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-09-21T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T14:11:48","slug":"other-smart-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/other-smart-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Other smart people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that your opinion of someone elses intelligence is pretty much solely based on <em>how much they agree with your views<\/em>. Well if that&#8217;s the case, then Clinton Keith over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilegamedevelopment.com\">Agile Game Development <\/a>must be pretty damned smart. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilegamedevelopment.com\/2008\/06\/hit-or-miss-dead.html\">This post <\/a>covers pretty much exactly what <a href=\"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/user\/mrcranky\/71\">I&#8217;ve said previously<\/a> about the rising cost vs. stagnant demand for big-budget games, except with pretty graphs and actual numbers. Psshaw &#8211; who needs statistics when you have hunches and rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing that I&#8217;ve seen in the last 2 years has shifted my views on the likely fate of big-budget retail titles, although we haven&#8217;t seen a wholesale collapse in that sector of the market, so its likely things aren&#8217;t all that bad. Down here at the shallow end of the pond though it is small affordable to develop (and buy) titles all the way. We&#8217;re getting ever closer to getting our prototypes up and running on the console kit, but I won&#8217;t be happy until I can start tinkering properly and see the results on the television. Our story-board is shifting nicely over to the &#8216;done&#8217; column though, so it will soon be time to re-fill the board with more significant and less engine-related stories.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self though &#8211; follow up our post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/user\/mrcranky\/112\">one true handed-ness<\/a> with one on the one true endian-ness. Big endian is not our friend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that your opinion of someone elses intelligence is pretty much solely based on how much they agree with your views. Well if that&#8217;s the case, then Clinton Keith over at Agile Game Development must be pretty damned smart. This post covers pretty much exactly what I&#8217;ve said previously about the rising cost vs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6,3],"tags":[79,81,80,249],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-2U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}