"Sebastian Sylvan"
For those who don't know him, Tim Sweeney is the main programmer behind Epic Games's popular Unreal Engine. When he talks, many game developers will listen.
We will dream, most likely.
Perhaps more importantly, anything he does will affect a large number of game developers.
Dreaming of pointy-haired bosses listening to him, that is.
I think he meant in the sense that the unreal engine has *lots* of licensees. If UnrealScript 4 is a Haskell-like language with lenient evaluation and limited dependent typing, etc., then that's what a large number of game developers will use in their day-to-day work.
Er, yes. Some gameplay programmers will, and also some level designers, seen 3d-wise, that most likely means gfx guys, who would generally rather work with some warm, fuzzy, graphical switch->event thingy. The rest is still afaict left with C++ which gets linked into the engine. You make less bugs with that language? Fucking learn to write C++! I don't know how the UE is priced, but with the $10.000 that the cheapest id engine cost as I looked it up you can develop a whole game... CrystalSpace is sufficient for nearly everything one could want to do, except maybe ahead-of-the-art graphic demos pushed into markets by million-euro advertisement and game-mag-bribing budgets. I don't think you would get even close to 1000 people who use UnrealScript to earn their living. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.