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Portable Code - The Trials of Porting Total War from Windows to Mac OS X

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Summary

Guy Davidson, Tom Miles discuss 64-bit programming pitfalls, Unity builds, writing portable code, and persuading a large development team of varying levels of skill to write portable code as well.

Bio

Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager for Creative Assembly, responsible for the Total War series and Alien:Isolation. His roles include recruiting, training and developing the programming corps. Tom Miles started as a generalist programmer on the multi award winning Total War franchise on PC, his tenure at Creative Assembly finally led him to a role as lead User Interface programmer.

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Jul 23, 2015

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