index.html Recent posts posts/how-to-write-good-bug-reports.html posts/how-to-write-good-bug-reports.html quality assurance Sat, 09 Oct 2021 09:33:37 +0000 Every game in development has bugs! posts/tweakable-game-settings.html posts/tweakable-game-settings.html programming Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:17:46 +0000 In any complex game there are often hundreds of settings and values which influence the way the game plays. posts/agile-considered-fragile.html posts/agile-considered-fragile.html project management Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:08:04 +0000 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 posts/a-fun-bug-we-found-in-our-mmo.html debugging Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:33:36 +0000 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 posts/in-defence-of-metacritic-scores.html reviews Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:51:23 +0000 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 posts/code-archaeology.html programming Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:08:56 +0000 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 posts/pitfalls-of-using-wikis-for-game-design-documents.html design Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:16:53 +0000 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 posts/dissecting-a-simple-game.html design Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:04:54 +0000 Apologies in advance for the length of this entry; there's a short summary in the last paragraph if you're pressed for time!