Remember most of B&W Rob are actually other libraries... for example the graphics were DirectX 8.0 and they relied ALOT on the builtin functions - the worlds were Terrain Patchs builtin LOD, the animations were Bink, infact the only thing which was really coded was the Ai Scripter & Interaction.
that aside alot of games don't use that many lines of actual code, remember unlike in basic in C you can use code sections over and over as objects - this does save one hell of alot of code. Quake2 for example was only a matter of 30,000 lines whereas Quake was 65,000 ... the complexity doesn't weigh in general balance, because i could create an Image Blending routine with say 70lines of code in DBP - someone like GuyS could probably achieve achieve in around 45lines.
That isn't to say that GuyS would be any faster or better, he can just code more compactly - best example would probably be a game i coded for Rose, i coded a game nothing fancy ended up around 120lines of code i think, my youngest brother rewrote the entire game and used around 450lines of code ... but his game was far more responsive and a damn'd sight faster. However was a bitch to debug because of his style of coding - the point is in the end the actual number of lines doesn't = what can be achieved. Everyone programs differently, whether it is smaller, bigger, compact or elongated in the end what code is actually there doesn't matter - its how it has been used
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