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One of my most memorable moments working on Hearthstone was the time @puffinplays accidentally deleted the entire Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion from Unity.

One of my most memorable moments working on Hearthstone was the time @puffinplays accidentally deleted the entire Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion from Unity.

  • Iksar
    Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
    One of my most memorable moments working on Hearthstone was the time @puffinplays accidentally deleted the entire Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion from Unity.

    • HS_Alec
      Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS @puffinplays https://t.co/QIWgeMx3UC

    • hypopyh
      Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS @puffinplays you WHAT

      • hypopyh
        Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
        @IksarHS @puffinplays Dean you can't just drop this Fun Fact and then not explain, like???? Literally how

        • puffinplays
          Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
          @hypopyh @IksarHS How have you never heard of this? It’s part of the onboarding program for new designers of what not to do.

          • hypopyh
            Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
            @puffinplays @IksarHS IT TAKES SUCH SIGNIFICANT TIME AND EFFORT TO ACHIEVE THIS I'm holding my head trying to wrap my brain around this

            • Iksar
              Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
              @hypopyh @puffinplays I forget what the task was but we had a bunch of duplicate copies of something and he straight up just took the whole expansion folder and clicked through an endless stream of dialogue boxes saying "NO NO DONT DO IT" and just did it anyway.

              • Iksar
                Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret might know more. We recovered it? I don't remember I'm old. I just remember it was an extreme pain in the butt.

                • Iksar
                  Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                  @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret Maybe not as bad as the time @Celestalon broke us so bad no one on the ENTIRE TEAM could work for a few days but I also don't really remember what happened then either...

                  • Iksar
                    Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                    @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret @Celestalon Our tools have improved, though :)

                  • RidiculousHat
                    Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                    @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret @Celestalon was the broke-the-build banana active at this time

                    • Iksar
                      Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                      @RidiculousHat @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret @Celestalon the broke the build banana was retired

                  • Chadd Nervigg
                    Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                    @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret I created the League of Explorers cardset (wrong).

                    • RickMKick
                      Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                      @Celestalon @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret What's the story behind this one? @LegendaryFerret did such a good write up about @puffinplays, this tweet kinda falls short. Gimmie the details!

                      • Chadd Nervigg
                        Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                        @RickMKick @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret Heh, I'll try. Back in the day... Our tools were built to help with the repetitive tasks that we often do as designers. Create and edit cards, etc. But they weren't so helpful for doing things that were rarely done, like creating a new cardset.

                        • Chadd Nervigg
                          Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                          @RickMKick @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret So the process for creating a new cardset was mostly manual. Adding to enums in C++ code in a few places, creating a few new cardset definition xml files by copying/pasting the previous cardset and changing values.

                          • Chadd Nervigg
                            Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                            @RickMKick @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret And because the tools weren't doing it, it didn't automatically create Perforce changelists, so there was a bunch of manual 'check in each file that was created'. THE MISTAKE: I think I missed checking in one of the new files.

                            • Chadd Nervigg
                              Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                              @RickMKick @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret Our servers were also a lot more fragile back then. For me, they started up fine. But for everyone else, they ran into that missing cardset file on startup, and barfed a slew of errors, and gave up, wouldn't launch.

                              • Chadd Nervigg
                                Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                                @RickMKick @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays @LegendaryFerret After about 3hr of me trying to figure out what I had done wrong ("It works on my machine!"🤣), with nobody on the team able to launch servers, followed by about 10min of @swingsy explaining what was wrong and helping me solve it, and things were back up and running.

              • HS_Alec
                Posted 4 years, 10 months ago (Source)
                @IksarHS @hypopyh @puffinplays https://t.co/1zVjqN955d
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