Huh? Which one? I played all of them except the trading card game and never ran into anything like that. Digimon World 1 had some funky bugs, like you couldn't use the in-game jukebox, but you could still beat it.
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Steve Gaynor (Fullbright) asks devs on Twitter for their most embarrassing game dev crimes
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Oh my, i remember this. I worked for 5tcell at the time and asked them who did the spanish version becaise it was absolutely atrocious. Theres a puzzle were you need to summon a castle and by writting the word in spanish (castillo) it didnt summon anything, not even with similr synoyms lile fortaleza.
To fix this you had to go to the menu, change the language to english, beat that missiom by writting castle, and then putting back the game to spanish. I remember my mother trying to beat the game (as it was the first game i worked on) and getting stuck in that part lol
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Every game entity in Wolverine's Revenge contains a single bit determining whether it's a helicopter taking off or not. Including Wolverine.
5 bucks most of these anecdotes are from games published by large publishers
Sounds to me like you are a new developer, am I wrong?
While lots of these do not apply to UE4 developers, the concepts are 1:1 transferable and should be understood with general programming knowledge.
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I really enjoyed reading those. It relativizes the doubts I have regarding my own programming skills. There is much to learn still, but it does show that getting hung up on it really is rather destructive.
I love the narrative of these workarounds. A man with a water wheel stuck inside his body, a little hall demons go through before fighting the demon slayer...
Do you mean Ogremon in the EU version of Digimon World? My childhood was negatively affected by this.
Yeah, I'll bet that was a little depressing. Wonder what they did for Enhanced Edition.
Even though I don't understand all of it, some of these are hilarious and reflect some of my attempts at C lmao.
I think both of you will thoroughly enjoy these articles then. Same kind of stuff as this thread.
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news..._their_most_memorable_dirty_coding_tricks.php
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132500/dirty_coding_tricks.php
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249475/More_dirty_coding_tricks_from_game_developers.php
This one is my favorite:
But that's how I'm going to make a game.
These are great, its good to see in a way, as in sometimes it's best to just get things done and not worry about how so much.
PAL version of Digimon World 1 had a bug which made the game literally unbeatable.
"I can't believe the weird bugs in this game. How could this happen? Other devs don't let this happen."
Other devs:
LMAO right!?
If you think any of the crimes so far are terrifying, don't click this link.
That's a fraction of the source for a game that shipped on Steam (pre Steam Direct, even), published by its author as an admission of guilt. It's written almost entirely in the XNA Update(), without the use of loops or arrays. It's the worst shipping code I'm aware of by far.
That's a fraction of the source for a game that shipped on Steam (pre Steam Direct, even), published by its author as an admission of guilt. It's written almost entirely in the XNA Update(), without the use of loops or arrays. It's the worst shipping code I'm aware of by far.
And it runs! I've played it! Like, I really need to give the author props for bull-headed determination, sticking with that style to the end even though learning the basic elements of programming would have been so much easier.
I love this thread because it shows us that the devs are humans and screw up just as much as we do and yet still ship absolutely amazing experiences.
"The actual file is three to four times what is shown here." I'm crying with laughter. Hey, in the end he's right, it works so props to him for getting it to run.
"The actual file is three to four times what is shown here." I'm crying with laughter. Hey, in the end he's right, it works so props to him for getting it to run.
Unrolling those loops.
Unbeknownst to the author and all of us peons it's actually a highly efficient and optimized masterpiece.
I'm surprised he managed to make it run
These are wonderful, thank you. Makes me wish we can get conversations like these from people who worked in AAA games, too.
This is the shit I love to read about. I wish more games were able to include "DVD extras" so we could get more banter about how the sausage was made.
That is some real soul crushing stuff there. I can read it, but I wouldn't want to go through and try to port that code.
I like this. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand, am I right?!
On a related note, it's good that games in general are not open source. :)
Sometimes interesting things can be found while adventuring through the source files.
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Yup. At the end of the day, the most valuable resource is time. So when you're making a game and you need to put a new thing in it, chances are something in your core systems can already do a lot of the things you want, so just repurpose that in sneaky ways and save everyone a lot of time.
A great example of this is the non-player character. A lot of games have NPCs, and they need to be able to do lots of things like have behaviors, pathing, give or receive items, etc. So when something else in the game needs to have that stuff, just put an NPC there in a way that the player can't see them and call it a day.
When Bethesda wanted to add moving trains to Fallout 3, they just put a giant novelty train hat on an NPC and instructed it to move along a track.
When you receive a quest reward in World of Warcraft, you're looting an invisible NPC.
It's all absolutely delightful.
A great example of this is the non-player character. A lot of games have NPCs, and they need to be able to do lots of things like have behaviors, pathing, give or receive items, etc. So when something else in the game needs to have that stuff, just put an NPC there in a way that the player can't see them and call it a day.
When Bethesda wanted to add moving trains to Fallout 3, they just put a giant novelty train hat on an NPC and instructed it to move along a track.
When you receive a quest reward in World of Warcraft, you're looting an invisible NPC.
It's all absolutely delightful.
It definitely should be.
That's top notch. A lesson for the ages.
These tweets really make me happy I've decided to get a CS degree before going into game design lol.
I was interested in going into games earlier, but after getting my degree it is the last thing I want. Long hours, less pay, gamers as customers.
I don't think this one should be considered embarrassing. It is a perfectly valid design and production decision.
At least on consoles, it's an extra set of content to get through certification, and often is not worth the extra time that could be spent on the core content.