On: Carmack: Armadillo Aerospace in “hibernation mode”

[angersock]

It worked, didn't it?

[deletes → angersock]

Not really; The development time seems to be getting longer. Quake/Doom 1 took a ~year. Doom 3 was 3 years, and now Rage the latest title took 7 (!) years.

[duaneb → deletes]

I am not entirely sure how good Carmack was for the company—the tech engine yes, as the director of a corporation, not so sure.

[Bamafan → duaneb]

Agreed. It's obvious now that losing Romero was a tremendous blow to the company, creatively.

(Was not obvious back when it happened though, at least not to me.)

[devbug → deletes]

And look at the scope.

[deletes → devbug]

What do you mean? All their games were aimed for the same ~12 hour play duration. Rage was no exception.

[furyofantares → deletes]

The amount of content you have to produce for 12 hours of Rage is much greater than for 12 hours of Doom

[angersock → deletes]

Right, but look at the team size as that happened. I'd posit that moving away from the team structure he advocated is part of the cause of those delays.