after working in the video games industry for a decade, i can safely say the single largest cause of problems during development is this
features
every time someone asks for new feature like "make the character move", "play a sound" or "run the game", it pushes back the release date and inevitably creates bugs
i think through careful thought and design, it should be possible to one day ship a game with zero features
@ben after working in the video games industry for 2 years, i can safely say the single largest cause of problems during development is this
development
every time someone adds something to the game, it starts off as an amazing sounding idea and then all those planning blind spots are revealed. it pushes back the released ate and inevitably creates bugs
i think through no thought or design, it should be possible to one day ship a game with zero game