RE: [GD-General] Architecture Design

[neo b. <ne...@mw...>]

I divide it up into macro and micro design.

Macro design is the overall interaction of everything.

We will have 3D, we will have physics, we will have arguments ;>

Then I go off and code tons of test apps which implement/test ideas, etc
and give me an idea of what it is exactly I'm dealing with. Once I've hacked
it do death, played with it and broken it, I have a much clearer
understanding
of what it involves. Then it becomes a 'design' with specific interfaces and
capabilities, and I know sorta how to keep it open enough.

That's basically the middle way which brings together my inherent urge for
purity and simplicity stewed with real world ingredients.

And of course this is recursive.

Hack in slash in the backyard, then clean it up for inside the house...

layder
neo


-----Original Message-----
From: gam...@li...
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Evil Kosh
Sent: 08 October 2001 07:48
To: GameDev General ML
Subject: Re: [GD-General] Architecture Design


fly by the seat of your pants is something I'm used to !

I try to design stuff logically, I think about what I would need to get a
base working, then I extend it to support stuff I want, say 3d, or 2d, then
I just add more and more until I have the system I want, it's evolutionary
design and it usually gives the best designs, it's the same technique the
russians used in designing their rockets in the race to the moon, it takes
longer to implement something than a clear cut, on paper design, but the
designs are usually (depending on the design team) better...

think about it this way, the russians were 20 years ahead of the americans
at designing rocket boosters, but their designs took longer to implement, so
whilst the americans went to the moon, the russians didnt, that was in
1970s, in the 1990 americans were entering russia and hearing about MK33
rockets and how amazing they were, by now a 20 year old design, guess what?
they outperformed american technology of the 1990's, even with the americans
improving their designs over the last 20 years and are now the base of many
rockets that were designed after their discovery by the americans :)

so, evolutionary design, if you can afford more time and dont mind flying by
the seat of your pants, this is what I would suggest

kosh


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