Came across this rare photograph of the dev team behind gta3.
This would have been taken in 2000/2001 in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
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I didn't know this happened.
Mike Dailly @mdf200 wrote a prototype for the engine for gta1. It was isometric and looked somewhat like this.
The lead programmer, Keith Hamilton @scarymon went ahead with it but it was running too slowly. Then Mike wrote the top down engine and they
Yeah, Keith did actually start doing a game with the first one, taking it into Hires. But it was slow as it was using paged SVGA rendering so just wasn't that great. There was even a design doc for it, closer to GTA 2 with gangs etc...
But by the time that became clear, I'd
Lance Williams, Adam Davidson and Jeremy Pope from R* New York at E3 2001.
This was 5 months before the release of gta3.
Its success was far from certain.
gta2 had disappointed 2 years prior.
gta3 didn’t get much attention at the show. People were more interested in another R*
Calm down everybody. The leaks are a nothing burger.
As a marketing strategy R* is trying to keep the game under wraps longer than other publishers. All that has happened is that some footage has escaped. Slightly ahead of the Netflix thing next week.
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