game formats programmers

tali122 | 21:03 Wed 30th Nov 2005 | Technology

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lots of computer games are available on multi -formats pc/ps2/xbox/nintendo etc- are these games coded by the same programmers?-or does a game have to be coded by a programmers expert in each format, in other words, for example, a pc game programmer would not be able to code any other of the formats?

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A lot of the building blocc code will be what is known as cross compilable. Each platform gets it's own compiled code but with the same source code.

I would say it's probably more of a collaboration of PC/PS2/XBox developers than all of them working on the project independantly.

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Only parts of the code such as the rendering engine are specific to a platform, and have to be implemented seperately for each platform ( usually by different people )
Other parts, especially the main game code, runs on all platforms.

So for example, a pc AI programmer would be able to program some AI on any console,
but a pc graphics programmer would need to do a bit of research before being able to code a PS2 rendering engine.

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