Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling has 'clarified' comments he tweeted recently regarding the fact that new engine for Call of Duty would be "counter-productive".
In response to the statement, "someone just needs to spend the $ and construct a new engine for the CoD franchise... Ground up", Bowling Tweeted, "That would be counter productive. An engine takes years and years to develop and get right."
Of course, this tweet was taken out of context and Mr B has since told CVG, "I was speaking hypothetically and from a top-line philosophy that building a ground-up engine is counter productive."
Riiiight... apparently he was "not referring to any specific project, simply clarifying with that user that we never - for any game - build a 'brand new' engine, but iterate on a solid base as you noted in your article, adding what's needed and innovates it."
"The key point is the difference between inferring 'nothing new' and what we were actually discussing which was 'ground-up'. This is standard, as near every engine currently in use by us and other developers are iterations on their previous codebase."
Well, that last bit makes sense, albeit from a top-line philosophy going forward out of the box 24/7... etc.
In response to the statement, "someone just needs to spend the $ and construct a new engine for the CoD franchise... Ground up", Bowling Tweeted, "That would be counter productive. An engine takes years and years to develop and get right."
Of course, this tweet was taken out of context and Mr B has since told CVG, "I was speaking hypothetically and from a top-line philosophy that building a ground-up engine is counter productive."
Riiiight... apparently he was "not referring to any specific project, simply clarifying with that user that we never - for any game - build a 'brand new' engine, but iterate on a solid base as you noted in your article, adding what's needed and innovates it."
"The key point is the difference between inferring 'nothing new' and what we were actually discussing which was 'ground-up'. This is standard, as near every engine currently in use by us and other developers are iterations on their previous codebase."
Well, that last bit makes sense, albeit from a top-line philosophy going forward out of the box 24/7... etc.
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