void GridVertexBufferRenderable::gridGen(int x0, int x1, int y0, int y1, int stride, int cacheSize)
{
    if (x1 - x0 + 2 = cacheSize)
        {
            *mIndexesFill++ = x0;
            for (int x = x0; x <= x1; x++)
            {
                *mIndexesFill++ = x;
            }
        }

        for (int y = y0; y < y1; y++)
        {
#ifdef RESTART_INDEX
			*mIndexesFill++ = RESTART_INDEX;
#else
			*mIndexesFill++ = stride * (y + 0) + x1;
			*mIndexesFill++ = stride * (y + 0) + x0;
#endif

            for (int x = x0; x <= x1; x++)
            {
                *mIndexesFill++ = stride * (y + 0) + x;
                *mIndexesFill++ = stride * (y + 1) + x;
            }
        }
    }
    else
    {
        int xm = x0 + cacheSize - 2;
        gridGen(x0, xm, y0, y1, stride, cacheSize);
        gridGen(xm, x1, y0, y1, stride, cacheSize);
    }
}

I realize that this post comes a bit late in the game. I do not know if you guys are still hiring, but I recently sent my CV to Jonathan. I am curious to know if you could tell me what kinds of credentials are actually being sought. The post on The Witness dev blog just says to be good at making games. I like to think that I am good at making games, but when I see your level of industry experience, it makes me think that a successful candidate will also need a similar amount of experience. I have quite a bit of informal experience, but until recently, my career path was not in the video game industry; so I don’t have any industry experience, just projects I have worked on myself.

I understand corporations use and abuse patents, but as an individual I would feel vulnerable to those same corporations without filing one. I’m sure they would feel vulnerable, too, against their competitors.

Patent term lengths need to be shorter, or industry specific. I don’t think people should be forced to share solutions, but I do agree that preventing others from understanding and implementing the same solution is terrible.

Of course, some claim that patents assist in market competition, stimulating growth. But few, large corporations tend to horde all the patents, making small businesses nearly impossible to start. Claiming this kind of patenting aids a free, open market is a joke.

Still, it’s a difficult issue. I might feel bad if I made a billion dollars from some trivial patent, but I wouldn’t feel good if I was pushed out of the market having created a widely implemented solution to a common problem. I’d feel bad because the executive above me came up with a distribution scheme and a profit share. That’s why I’d feel like he took “my” money, and that’s why I’d want to file a patent.

- Pritchard