How I Did It -- Source Code to Escape from Monster Manor (3DO, 1993)

Get a sense of what console game development was like in the early 1990's as I dust off the source code to the 3DO game Escape from Monster Manor. I'll be discussing the immediate history that led up to it, and diving in to the actual, genuine, no-fooling source code of the game.

Start time is approximate, depending on whether I get my chores done :-). Currently budgeting around 1.5 - 2 hours. The VOD will be made available after broadcast. Obviously I won't be covering the entire program, but hopefully we'll get a look at key pieces of the code and how they fulfilled the design goals and constraints.

This will be my first livestream ever, so please be gentle and tolerant of technical flubs.


Links

For those who'd like to follow along at home, the source code for the game is now (for the moment) on Github:
https://github.com/ewhac/EFMM-3DO

If you've never heard of the 3DO before, this should serve as a reasonable introduction:
   • 3DO: The Greatest Console You Never H...  

The Jargon File:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/