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I knew a gameplay programmer years ago who got frustrated with a particular designer constantly requesting minor tweaks that required code changes. He built a f

I knew a gameplay programmer years ago who got frustrated with a particular designer constantly requesting minor tweaks that required code changes. He built a fancy control panel with a bunch of sliders and dials to adjust all kinds of gameplay parameters and gave it to the designer who happily spent the rest of the project making endless adjustments without bothering the programmer in question. Of course he never hooked up the controls to actually do anything and the nicely balanced gameplay was entirely due to the decisions he hard coded.

cloudjacker 10y ago
I like how all designers without fail put their meaningless design tickets as CRITICAL, BLOCKER in the ticket tracking system
- afarrell 10y ago
  I've never encountered that in any company I've worked for.
- maccard 10y ago
  Normally they are blockers. If they're not, they find a workaround and ignore it. Once they can't work around it, they put a ticket in.
mod 10y ago
http://nathanbarry.com/design-approval/ http://nathanbarry.com/design-approval/
caf 10y ago
Apparently audio mixing desks are sometimes built with such a slider or knob.