Garage Games Team vs Tribes2 Team?
by John Owen · in General Discussion · 04/04/2001 (7:46 am) · 2 replies
Hello:
What is the current relationship between Dynamix/Sierra and the Garage Games team? My understanding is that the Garage Games founders previously worked for Dynamix and left to start Garage Games. Is this true?
One of the reasons I am asking is Tribes2 seems to have some critical bugs which can literally prevent the game from launching. I have experienced the dreaded "Unhandled Exception" bug myself. My guess is the Tribes2 team will be working day and night to fix these problems.
Will this in any way delay the V12 release?
Also, do bugs that are fixed in Tribes2 by the Dynamix team (that are not game specific) get rolled into the V12 engine? Is this part of the agreement Garage Games has with Sierra?
Thanks for any information,
- John
What is the current relationship between Dynamix/Sierra and the Garage Games team? My understanding is that the Garage Games founders previously worked for Dynamix and left to start Garage Games. Is this true?
One of the reasons I am asking is Tribes2 seems to have some critical bugs which can literally prevent the game from launching. I have experienced the dreaded "Unhandled Exception" bug myself. My guess is the Tribes2 team will be working day and night to fix these problems.
Will this in any way delay the V12 release?
Also, do bugs that are fixed in Tribes2 by the Dynamix team (that are not game specific) get rolled into the V12 engine? Is this part of the agreement Garage Games has with Sierra?
Thanks for any information,
- John
#2
04/06/2001 (12:36 pm)
GarageGames does get the bug fixes produced by Dynamix for the first few major patches, and you right, it is a problem. Rick and I have already made big layout changes to the source tree which will complicate the merges. We originally didn't anticipate being interested a lot of the fixes (a number will be game related which we don't care about), but it looks like there are a few performance and crash issues we'll definitely want to integrate. I'm not sure if it's going to delay our release, but it's not making it any easier :)
Torque 3D Owner Pat Wilson