The Tao Of id - Kevin Cloud, Steve Nix Talk Tech, Future Of PC on Gamasutra talks with the pair from id Software about various topics, such as that state of PC gaming, mobile games, and engine licensing, prompting a separate post called Id's Nix: Id Tech 5 Not Using 'Stepchild Platform' Approach based on quotes from Nix about engine licensing, saying id's Tech5 does not have a target system and "stepchild platforms," but rather works more-or-less the same on all systems: "…what I can say is that with id Tech 5 that we have a solution that runs extremely well on the platforms today. It runs at a high framerate and it's not really a bifurcated technology approach. Ninety percent of the code runs the exact same in all the platforms. If you put an asset into the game once, it's the exact same asset across all the platforms."