Ex-Vice City coder looks at reVC decompiled source code #1

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Absolutely crazy coming across this video haha! Thanks for being a part of probably the greatest and most influential game of all time. Absolute legends every single one of you devs who worked on this! Fuckin' hats off to ya mate.

The main.scm file for Vice City was my first exposure to game code as a young kid. I now do programming in my day job and game dev as a side hobby. You can say my career and life passions are directly rooted back to the work you guys did in the early 2000's. Watching you comb through lines of code, pointing out oddities, reminiscing about colleagues, chain smoking cigarettes at 7AM with a beer in hand, all while on a journey to find out how they cut your name out of the game after randomly stumbling across the reVC github... for me, this is one of the most hilarious and relatable videos on YouTube ever. Please never delete this.

I couldn't help myself but celebrate when you finally found your name in the MIAMI branch, that was a journey and a half. I never played any of the GTA titles, but I do recognize the impact this franchise (mainly VC) had on the gaming industry, you're an absolute legend!

i'm so glad this got recommended to me, really interesting video. thank you for the work you've done on one of the greatest games of all time!

I'm so happy I was recommended this video and your channel. Definitely my vibe. Really interesting so far. Love the humour, too. Thanks for bringing one of the best games of all time to life!

You know, it's Wikipedia. Add yourself and any other programmers who were on the project. That's how Wikipedia gets more accurate.

Goes to show how the R* devs are a wholly different character compared to those bean counters at their parent company Take-Two.

Thank you for Vice City! That game was my memories of time with my son. Man we played that game so much and your talent and work is very much appreciated.

Holy moly, saw gta3, graduated from uni and got straight into working on the sequel! Nuts!

Hello! Bit of a GTA modder myself and must say it's nothing short of hilarious and ironic how you, a former Rockstar developer, don't support their takedowns of such remarkable projects like this. It is thanks to modding that I'm taking my first steps in the game dev industry as well, something Rockstar should very much consider when hiring people. I have no interest working with them after their actions in 2021 but there is plenty of fish in the sea! Thank you for this video as well, this is brilliant :D

ViceChee is probably a special Cheetah that the FBI (MiamiCop?) uses that has 3 side mirrors

Thank you for your work on a game that I have fond memories of, and which marks a special time in my life. I played Vice City on PC back in the day, during my final year of high school. Only a few games bring back those memories vividly, but VC is high on the list of those which do.

I'm a huge 3D era GTA fan and studied CS. I would have never imagined the actual game code is that simple. It feels more like a private project of some guys who came together to create a great game, which is good.

watched the whole video from front to end, great to listen to all the info and stories!

It's really interesting to see code like this for something you're familiar with, and see how things were solved/implemented. You mention a few times about the brackets in switch-case statements; in c++ any newly declared variables are required to be placed within block-scope, so while it can be a ''style/visual-thing'', failing to do so will cause a compilation error for attempting to jump past a case-label.

Sorry, you dropped this👑 Thank you for making my childhood ❤❤

Bloody cracking video! I’m glad Leslie came off as a good guy, I was super sad to see him leave the company.

As a full-time GTA5 mod developer, this was super entertaining to watch! It's crazy to see how the game has evolved over the years! Thank you for this video - it made my day!

Was playing these when I was 7 years old ( was already playing games since I was 3, already played GTA 1 and GTA 2) , it was crazy good moments as a child. I would never ever thought I would be learning the language it is written in 20 years later, + having a dev of the game talking about it, life is full of surprises, thanks for ur game and ur vid :)