« previous next » Print Pages: 1 Author Topic: Stefano leaves KS (Read 5694 times) Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 11036 Karma: 152 AC Admin Stefano leaves KS « on: April 03, 2020, 07:18:12 AM » https://www.racedepartment.com/threads/acc-stefano-casillo-leaves-kunos-simulazioni.180962/ Logged “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time” Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 11036 Karma: 152 AC Admin Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #1 on: April 03, 2020, 07:49:58 AM » Pankykapus wrote:"Stefano's involvement has been phased out gradually, he did a massive part of the original code for ACC but by this point his fields were broken up and taken on gradually by 5-6 different developers, either from the original team or relatively new guys like Fernando. It is very telling that it required a small team inside KS to take over his role." Logged “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time” Bird Administrator Hero Member Posts: 2324 Karma: -666 Ysu Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #2 on: April 03, 2020, 09:50:26 AM » Well, it always takes more people when you want to divvy up someone's work, even if they're just as capable.There's a lot of overhead in comms & documentation. A LOT. The bigger the team, the lower the productivity - in smaller teams, it's really bad. Add an extra person to your 1-man team (on a single project), and the overall output will be way lower than 2x.There's also an interesting thing I've read somewhere; reportedly, MS programmers used to write a line of code a day on average. They had thousands working on the windows code. I know it sounds really incredibly low. I wrote a 20k+ line program in a year - alone. At least 75 lines / day (counting 260 workdays) if you look at it that way. Logged Seanus RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 1424 Karma: 74 ∞+1|ℵ₀ Seanus Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #3 on: April 03, 2020, 09:51:34 AM » What a real pity he sold AC. Imagine now if he made it open source. Logged I always knew the Sun shone out of my arse. Sean's bum is an anagram of Sunbeams. Phil.8 RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 4158 Karma: 62 Δ8 Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #4 on: April 03, 2020, 11:46:52 AM » I hope he goes and makes AC2, something that interests more than the half a dozen Blancpain fans world wide Logged The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 11036 Karma: 152 AC Admin Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #5 on: April 03, 2020, 01:24:07 PM » I have a feeling that he wants to do something completely different from racing sims altogether. Logged “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time” rooshooter RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 2887 Karma: 52 Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #6 on: April 03, 2020, 01:45:44 PM » Brain surgeons usually don't switch to rocket surgery « Last Edit: April 03, 2020, 01:51:50 PM by rooshooter » Logged social media is the tobacco of this century Jarmel Jr. Member Posts: 242 Karma: 11 Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #7 on: April 03, 2020, 02:50:12 PM » I doub't he could make another racing sim for 5 years even if he wanted to, No doubt when he sold up they would of been a clause in contract forbidding him from making another racing sim, Also the new company would more than likely own all the IP.My guess is he sold but then stayed on for a bit to smooth out the changeover as he wanted out of sim racing coding Logged Bird Administrator Hero Member Posts: 2324 Karma: -666 Ysu Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #8 on: April 03, 2020, 03:32:19 PM » Quote from: rooshooter on April 03, 2020, 01:45:44 PMBrain surgeons usually don't switch to rocket surgery Software engineers don't necessarily need to... Logged Wally Administrator Hero Member Posts: 11036 Karma: 152 AC Admin Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #9 on: April 03, 2020, 03:52:09 PM » Quote from: rooshooter on April 03, 2020, 01:45:44 PMBrain surgeons usually don't switch to rocket surgery He said "At a certain point I started to feel like I had nothing more to give to the SimRacing genre and it was time for me to go look for new inspirations."and"We only have 1 life to live and I am want to make sure I'll use mine to the fullest even if that means starting from scratch and trying something out of what became my comfort zone in SimRacing." Logged “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time” rooshooter RestrictedRacing Hero Member Posts: 2887 Karma: 52 Re: Stefano leaves KS « Reply #10 on: April 03, 2020, 05:22:48 PM » I always presumed petrol head 1st. programmer 2nd. and driven by the 1st. 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