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	Re: Jason Jones interview
	Posted By: M-Class	Date: 1/9/02 2:51 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: Jason Jones interview (Hamish Sinclair) roughly typed and segmented excerpt-- Tricks of the Mac Game Programming Gurus p199-207 Profile: Jason Jones Jason Jones is the lead programmer at Bungie Software for the very hot game Marathon. In case you are among the few who haven't seen it, Marathon is a first-person, fully 3-D action/adventure/combat game in the tradition of Pathways Into Darkness, Wolfenstein, Doom, and so on. Q. Could you give me a general idea of Marathon's architecture? Is there a rendering engine and a refresh daemon a là Doom? How exactly is the program structured? A. No, Marathon doesn't have that type of asychronous operation between the game model and the rendering engine. They're clearly seperate in the architecture, but all the game code is executed between frames while we're working on rendering the image. We generate a frame, display it, and we figure what happened in the world while we were generating that frame,update our state of the world, and then draw the next frame.

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	Jason Jones interview	Andrew Nagy	1/9/02 8:31 a.m.
	Also, while playing Marathon 2 the other day...	Andrew Nagy	1/9/02 9:10 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	Hamish Sinclair	1/9/02 9:17 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	whocares	1/9/02 11:31 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/9/02 2:51 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/9/02 3:11 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/9/02 3:24 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/9/02 3:43 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/9/02 3:54 p.m.
	Cool. Are you going to continue? *NM*	Hamish Sinclair	1/9/02 9:28 p.m.
	HAMISH!!	Khral	1/10/02 2:39 a.m.
	Re: HAMISH!!	Hamish Sinclair	1/10/02 3:11 a.m.
	yep, I got sleepy last night *NM*	M-Class	1/10/02 10:58 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/10/02 11:17 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/10/02 11:34 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/12/02 9:43 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/12/02 10:06 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/12/02 10:31 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/12/02 10:44 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/12/02 11:01 a.m.
	Many thanks *NM*	Hamish Sinclair	1/12/02 12:22 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/13/02 11:08 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/13/02 11:31 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/13/02 11:58 a.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	M-Class	1/13/02 12:27 p.m.
	Many thanks. *NM*	Hamish Sinclair	1/14/02 12:14 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	Dan Aris	1/10/02 2:13 p.m.
	I have this Book! I will sell it if anyone wants!	Ernie TMBM	1/11/02 2:53 p.m.
	Re: I have this Book! I will sell it if anyone wan	Hamish Sinclair	1/12/02 9:05 a.m.
	Re: I have this Book! I will sell it if anyone wan	Ernie	1/15/02 12:39 p.m.
	Re: I have this Book! I will sell it if anyone wan	Ernie	1/15/02 12:40 p.m.
	Re: Jason Jones interview	Vid Boi	1/10/02 2:20 a.m.

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