Steve GaynorVerified account

During dev on a game in the 90s, as a security measure the game would not launch if the current date was more than a week after it was compiled. We totally forgot about this system, and only thru total luck an engineer caught and removed it on the day of sending gold for pressing

wowwwwwwww

on black and white 1 theres a memory leak we never found. so it detects if low on mem, saves, quits and restarts itself without explanation. passed overnight qa soak after that...

a bug in Black & White made me cry-- my Panda was affected by a bug where if you completed a level with the shrinking curse on it, it would just keep shrinking forever :( I had to watch something I loved slowly shrink into nothing and there was nothing I could do about it :(((

There is only one file in the first game I ever coded: a single class encapsulating everything. UI draw calls, game logic, text parsing, etc. 1000s of lines. Bonus: I had no idea what "static" meant, nor how to pass non-static objects. So I made everything static. Everything.

I'm not technical enough to understand this, but I understand enough to know it sounds Bad

to solve a late in the day issue with the road clipping through the floor compounded by an obtuse rendering approach, the car in Paratopic is actually a gun

now THIS is true game development

Every single toggle platform in Hot Tin Roof is a swing door rotated 90 degrees. Every single vertical lift is a sliding door. Every cruncher is also a sliding door. Like half the game is technically a door of some kind, pretending very hard not to be a door.