I have just some quick questions about game programming. I read somewhere that a game was just one giant loop. Does that mean that when you look at any games source code it will start with a loop, have lots of code inside then the end of that loop? Do you have to do things outside of that loop? On a big project, say programming something like a pro GBA game like Golden Sun. Is it possible for one programmer to do the entire thing (excluding art, sound etc.)? Or do you need many programmers to make something like that. What about large projects like FFX, just a rough estimate would be appriciated. How long would it take to right just the pure code for both Golden Sun and FFX? Thanks in advance.

Im still new but:

yes there is generally a main loop which in very very basic form looks like (dont hate me cos i get it wrong):

accept input
calculate
output


repeated over and over. Yeah I guess for some games one single person can program it, although im not aware about hte gba, particularly as its all in Assembler and I dont know a lot about it I can''t say exactly
And, sorry I can''t make an estimate for a game like FFX, I also would be interested in knowing.


What about me? What about Raven?