Hi Cara, Well, I'm glad you get a kick out of it. At the time I came up with the name for the engine I wanted something to do with the creation of game worlds and the first thing that came to mind is the biblical story of creation, and in a way a game creator is a bit like a god creating a world full of people, places, and things so Genesis sort of fit. However, after discovering that name was taken I did some thinking. about the name and was planning on giving it a generic name like Audio Game Creator or something along that lines. While I was still considering the name I happened to be reading a Richard Dawkins book, on Darwin's Theory of Evolution and I decided that was an apt description of the engine.
After all, when you think of it a game evolves, grows, and changes over time the way Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection does. Animals survive and change to suit their environment and Natural Selection weeds out the hardy breeds of a particular species and those less equipped will die out. Programming works much along the same lines accept there is a creator who does the thinning and weeding out of bad code when developing a program. However, like evolution you might start with a simple player class that does no more than hold a vector, the direction the player is moving, maybe have some hit point stats, and successive generations of that class adds more and more abilities to the player. Eventually, there will be subclasses that inherit that main class for special player types like wizard, Jedi, starship, whatever. They evolved from that simple class and branched out into more and more complex player classes until the original class is only one of many classes in a chain of evolutionary changes in the code. Anyway, getting back to the point while reading this Dawkin's book I realized a game engine is like evolution and named it that. Plus being a scientific person, not much interested in religion personally, I decided I wanted a more scientific name for the engine anyway. :D Cheers! On 4/25/13, Cara Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Lol Thomas this cracks me up! From creationism to Darwinism! Awesome! lol > lol lol! > > You rock! > > Smiles, > > Cara :) --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
