Pandemic Studios to be closed? - see article

[Nielk1]

Randomly today I ran into another mention of Pandy's death:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bvk0gespgI&annotation_id=annotation_730703&feature=iv#t=1m44s

[eddywright]

The playfish acquisition mentioned in the gaming news clip is real. EA bought playfish for $300M. When I read what playfish does, I thought "What the ...!?!"  Is that the future of gaming? If it is, just shoot me now.

http://www.playfish.com/press_releases/?release=09_11_2009

Eddy

[GSH]

A month ago, Pandemic IT replaced a really broken printer on the 16th floor. Looks like some (ex-)coworkers found that dead printer and had fun with it:

http://kotaku.com/5410999/pandemic-studios-says-goodbye-geek-gangsta-style

Good riddance to the printer. Sorry I can't identify those coworkers.

-- GSH

[appel]

Too bad Pandemic is gone. At least BZ2 still lives on.


GSH: You think the BZ2 source will leak out now? or maybe something like doxygen docs? 

[Firestorm29]

A month ago, Pandemic IT replaced a really broken printer on the 16th floor. Looks like some (ex-)coworkers found that dead printer and had fun with it:

http://kotaku.com/5410999/pandemic-studios-says-goodbye-geek-gangsta-style

Good riddance to the printer. Sorry I can't identify those coworkers.

-- GSH

Looks like a LaserJet 4000 series, I agree with that good riddance. Those things had expensive toner cartridges and were a P.I.T.A. to move around. >:

[AHadley]

GSH: You think the BZ2 source will leak out now? or maybe something like doxygen docs? 

Atari hold the copyright, IIRC.

[appel]

Atari hold the copyright, IIRC.

Seeing a list of classes and methods doesn't equal the source-code.

[GSH]

GSH: You think the BZ2 source will leak out now?  or maybe something like doxygen docs?

Given how much of a jerk you've been to me and the 1.3 cycle/community, that request from you is a bit ... presumptive.

-- GSH

[AHadley]

Seeing a list of classes and methods doesn't equal the source-code.

By which I meant you'd need to ask them.

[Commando]

LOL at the office space reference.  Great movie.

[sabrebattletank]

Yeah, my impression on leaking the source is that it'd be bad.

[TheJamsh]

Hahaha, i watched that video GSH... you guys must have had a right laugh on your time off (time off? what?). Yeh thats a laserjet. Had an abundance of those thingsi n our school. Forever running out of expensive toner cartridges and costing students money...

Blah... Pandemic was great. I guess now i have another reason to despise anything that falls out of EA's studio (i can honestly say i haven't enjoyed a single one of their games), even if it wasnt entirely their fault.

GSH and Ken are probably the only people WITH the source code besides old backups, and as far as im concerned, the only people who SHOULD have it. As soon as that leaks into the community, we are going to have all sorts of crappy buggy releases not-so-capable programmers have tried. I admit i ask for ridiculous things for the patch from the latest patches, but the way i see it only those two have the capability to decide what should and shouldn't go in.

I dont think i made the point i was trying to here... will try again when not so shattered...

[appel]

Given how much of a jerk you've been to me and the 1.3 cycle/community, that request from you is a bit ... presumptive.

GSH and Ken are probably the only people WITH the source code besides old backups, and as far as im concerned, the only people who SHOULD have it. As soon as that leaks into the community, we are going to have all sorts of crappy buggy releases not-so-capable programmers have tried. I admit i ask for ridiculous things for the patch from the latest patches, but the way i see it only those two have the capability to decide what should and shouldn't go in.

I'm not interested in the source for the sake of patching it, improving (or not) it or using it for some purpose. It's a technical and educational curiosity, seeing how things are implemented, even if it's in vague docs. It's fun to see how things are done behind the scenes, in a game you've played and loved for years.

But I agree, there aren't many around here that could even properly use the source-code were it to be released, so, I recommend not to release it. But there is nothing wrong with describing how things are implemented, e.g. "We did this to do this, and that to...". It does not break copyright laws and prevents people from exploiting the source.

But in any case, this suggestion seems dead on arrival judging by GSH's comments.

[Red Devil]

I'm curious to see how/if it differs from the DLL code.

[AHadley]

I also agree that the source code should stay with the three programmers.