index.html 2021-10-09T09:33:37+00:00 posts/how-to-write-good-bug-reports.html 2021-10-09T09:33:37+00:00

Every game in development has bugs!

posts/tweakable-game-settings.html 2021-08-29T15:17:46+00:00

In any complex game there are often hundreds of settings and values which influence the way the game plays.

posts/agile-considered-fragile.html 2021-08-04T18:08:04+00:00

The release of Cyberpunk 2077 in a poor state last year led to a lot of debate on how game development projects should be managed. Staff were overworked, deadlines were missed, features were cut, and the game came out with serious bugs.

posts/a-fun-bug-we-found-in-our-mmo.html 2013-04-28T04:33:36+00:00

Our server went down for no apparent reason. Turns out that it ran out of memory. Luckily we had a core dump and thus a useful stack trace with relevant parameters intact.

posts/in-defence-of-metacritic-scores.html 2012-07-28T19:51:23+00:00

Back in March it was reported that Obsidian Entertainment missed out on a bonus payment from their publisher Bethesda when their game *Fallout: New Vegas* narrowly failed to score 85 points on the Metacritic scoring system, which aggregates game...

posts/code-archaeology.html 2009-09-23T21:08:56+00:00

Something interesting happened today. For a couple of years, myself and colleagues had mulled over a certain 'killer feature' that we wished our networking layer had, as it would have made our time implementing gameplay features much easier.

posts/pitfalls-of-using-wikis-for-game-design-documents.html 2009-07-26T22:16:53+00:00

I recently made a post on this issue over at Gamedev.net, and thought I'd clean it up a bit to post over here, as I think it's worth talking about.

posts/dissecting-a-simple-game.html 2009-06-10T00:04:54+00:00

Apologies in advance for the length of this entry; there's a short summary in the last paragraph if you're pressed for time!