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Goldeneye was developed by Rare, who had been in existence for 10 years by the time Goldeneye was released. I'd be really surprised if they had landed the rights to a big IP and then turned a bunch of newbies loose on it.

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The 90s were a very different time my friend, prepare to be really surprised!

https://youtu.be/3AEvEIYzMbU?si=S5NDh1874vsE72Kl?t=8m28s

This is video is a wider retrospective about the game that I think is worth watching, but I linked to a clip in it from a GDC talk given by the games director. Where he states himself that only he and one other goldeneye 007 team member “had ever made a game before”

Thanks for that, exactly what I was meaning!

WOW ok I stand 100% corrected

He's correct. Martin Hollis was game director and had worked on one game before, cant remember if he was the only one that had worked on a game before or if they had one more, the rest of the team had never worked on a game. He thought it was one of their strengths as they came up with stuff that seasoned developers would never have tried.

Here's his GDC postmortem presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Fx18cppZk

I feel the 90s is a missed opportunity for someone like myself. If I was just a few years older... I could have been one of those "programmers" given opportunities.

Building games today is a different beast, comparable to making a movie.

They been around a lot longer than that as "ultimate play the game" :)

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