{"id":22,"date":"2005-05-30T19:13:18","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=22"},"modified":"2013-07-01T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T16:16:42","slug":"gamers-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Gamers manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guy<\/a> has really captured some of the funny, but all too common problems with games.<\/p>\n

My personal favorite is #14 about crates.\u00a0 It was a running joke while I worked at Intel in the graphics and 3D technologies lab.\u00a0 There was a hidden developer acronym for the phenomenon: TTC (Time To Crate).\u00a0 It could be used in sentences like ‘What a lame game – the TTC was zero!”\u00a0 TTC is the measure of time between the first moment of the title screen until you saw a crate on the screen.\u00a0 Try it – many times the answer is zero.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the very first scene starts you in a room full of crates!<\/p>\n

The TTC metric often is used as THE<\/em> metric of rating the creativeness of the artist that made the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guy has really captured some of the funny, but all too common problems with games. My personal favorite is #14 about crates.\u00a0 It was a running joke while I worked at Intel in the graphics and 3D technologies lab.\u00a0 There was a hidden developer acronym for the phenomenon: TTC (Time To Crate).\u00a0 It could be used in sentences like ‘What a lame game – the TTC was zero!”\u00a0 TTC is the measure of time between the first moment of…<\/p>\n

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