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Most times in game development, there's a decent delay between when you finish work on something and when it goes live. That leads to feelings of "Welp, it's out of my hands now, all I can do now is hope they like it!"

Most times in game development, there's a decent delay between when you finish work on something and when it goes live. That leads to feelings of "Welp, it's out of my hands now, all I can do now is hope they like it!"

  • Chadd Nervigg

    Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
    Most times in game development, there's a decent delay between when you finish work on something and when it goes live. That leads to feelings of "Welp, it's out of my hands now, all I can do now is hope they like it!"
    • Chadd Nervigg

      Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
      When you've been doing this a while, and doing similar sorts of things, you develop a good intuition about how players are going to react, helping relieve any of that uncertainty.
      • Chadd Nervigg

        Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
        But sometimes you do something that's way WAY outside of the box, something that's borderline impossible to evaluate internally, and just have no idea whatsoever whether it'll even work right, let alone people like it.
        • T_B_Morgan

          Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
          @Celestalon As a dev, between code lock and players getting their hands on it, it is several months of "did I get all of my bugs... or not"
          • Chadd Nervigg

            Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
            @T_B_Morgan Yuuuup.
            • T_B_Morgan

              Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
              @Celestalon QA is a blessed resource
              • Chadd Nervigg

                Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
                @T_B_Morgan Absoluuuutely.
        • Chadd Nervigg

          Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
          So uhhhh... Crossin' some fingers and toes right now. 🤞
          • BenMorrow1

            Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
            @Celestalon Oh sounds exciting 👀
            • Chadd Nervigg

              Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
              @BenMorrow1 I mean, I hope so? It might be a complete flop, who knows! But I definitely dreamed big... O.O
    • JakeStormoen

      Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
      @Celestalon Haha. I know those feelings well.
      • Chadd Nervigg

        Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
        @JakeStormoen Oh man, I imagine this is really bad with actors, where you can't even see how it turned out for a long time (and by that time, it's well past being able to do anything about it)
    • marshall5912

      Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
      @Celestalon 👀 Will we know what it is when we see it?
      • Chadd Nervigg

        Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
        @marshall5912 Very much so.
    • Cora

      Posted 4 years, 6 months ago (Source)
      @Celestalon hahaha... haha... ha... yeah.



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