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Temple of Elemental Evil Journal #6 at RPG Vault

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by NewsPro, Sep 7, 2003.

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    (Originally posted by Veldrin)

    RPG Vault has posted their 6th Temple of Elemental Evil Journal, this time with Sean Craig. They talk about going through the final stages of game completion. Here's a clip:

    Phase I - Panic
    At this point, the game has just entered test, and you have a personal list of things to do a mile long. It is easy to feel overwhelmed at this point. You're trying to fix the horrible bug in your code before anyone else finds it and makes you look stupid. There are some systems that you know need major rewrites before they're ready to ship, and you have to redo them now so that the new code will get adequate testing. But the testers keep sending you bug reports, which you don't read, because anyone looking at the game for three minutes can see a dozen things that need to be changed. Your co-workers are coming into your office three or four times an hour with a problem that they expect you to drop everything to fix. This is a great time for excuses and delaying tactics. Basically, anything you can say that lets you get back to work on the stuff you need to work on instead of the stuff everyone wants you to work on. Some of my favorites:

    1) Did you do a full get? This can delay the person for a couple hours easy.
    2) Try rebooting. Only good for a couple minutes, but sometimes that's all you need before they get distracted.
    3) Works on MY machine. This one pushes the blame off on the person who found the bug - obviously it's because of something they did.
    4) That's a [someone not here] question. The old standby slough-off. Preferably, the someone not here has gone on vacation or left the company or died or something; that way, they can't come back and prove incontrovertibly that it is in fact your bug.
    5) I haven't checked anything in, so it couldn't possibly be me. This one is great because they don't even know who to go to.
    6) It's on my list. Usually, it takes people a couple of months before they realize what this REALLY means.
    7) Wow. If that happens again, let me know.
    8) That's the way it works now.
    9) I fixed all those bugs yesterday.
    10) No player is ever going to do that.
    11) Any player who does that DESERVES to have the game crash.
    12) We're beyond that point now.
    13) If it's still in there tomorrow, I'll look at it.
    14) You are lying.

    Read it all here.
     
    NewsPro, Sep 7, 2003
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