I love hearing those kind of stories about technical challenges and problem solving in videogame design. Hook them to my veins.

“I distinctly remember having to put my hands up to protect my face because I had fallen back onto her couch and she was towering over me.”

A big reason you don’t have standardized credits for a game is that team make up is not standardized. One studio might say go so granular so they list out Vehicle Engineer, Sound Engineer, Weather Engineer, etc while another studio just lists Engineer because that’s just how the teams and titles are. At the studio…

... You can access the credits in most games without beating them.

I suspect you’re right. I worked in the industry 10 years ago, and the same problems existed then.

Most bugs you’d find in retail version of games were probably found and documented.

I doubt, even with everything in this game, that KojiPro would have someone called “theoriginalDONG” or whatever it was running around the game world. I don’t think there were a ton of us but enough that I recognized some Polygon folks and YouTubers like YongYea.

Delays that happen this close to release day announcements both amuse me, and make me feel really bad for the producers. You know that for the last five months they’ve been talking with Sony, and with the rest of the dev team, trying to negotiate between the publisher wanting to release, and the the overall state of…

You absolutely can, I do it all the time.

I think you're vastly overestimating the amount of time that QA testers have, or underestimating the amount of work they have to do.

I mean, Perforce is still a nightmare in 2019 and if a studio lost an entire source I wouldn’t be shocked

To all game developers out there:

JONES AS A PLAYABLE CHARACTER OR WE RIOTTTTTTTT!!!!!!

No fucking shit. Gamers can be some of the most entitled assholes ever. Why the hell would someone want to engage with spoiled shits who armchair game develop, as if content and features are as easy to make as a meme template.

Your denial of predatory practices in businesses is naive. You clearly have no understanding of the word “predator” and how it can apply to multiple scenarios. In no way does it minimize the value of the word and how it’s applied in other situations.

Except these characters are “ancestors”, which implies they had coitus with opposite sex. So not exclusively gay, no.

The heist stuff sounded really, really cool.