[vorbis] RE: FhG $15k minimum and games...

[Kenneth Arnold]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:15:41PM -0700, Pedriana, Paul wrote:
>    >>The game companies are interested in 
>    >>Vorbis, and this is a good thing :)
> 
> I am a lead programmer at a major game company 
> (Maxis) and Vorbis is potentially very important 
> to us. I am pushing to make it the default streaming 
> sound format (e.g. non-sound effects) for all 
> future titles. This assumes that it works as well
> as anticipated. Other subdivisions of Electronic
> Arts are looking at it as well. The day Vorbis
> is ready with a decent level of first-cut 
> optimization is the day I start incorporating it
> into our apps, with SimCity 4000 being the first.

... and that will be the day I start thinking about buying SimCity 4000 :)
Pay for good choices with wallets.

I am definately not an authoritative source on the matter, but Vorbis
interface APIs should remain relatively stable, and if anything does
change, it will likely be minor, so I would suggest that, if possible,
you could write the code sooner and it should still work later.

> Paul Pedriana
> Senior Software Engineer
> Maxis

What fun.

Kenneth Arnold
(nobody yet)

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