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>Having looked at a few games' source code, are there really any complex games with pretty code? Games don't have the same maintenance requirements as a web ap
by ramesh31 5y ago
>Having looked at a few games' source code, are there really any complex games with pretty code?
Games don't have the same maintenance requirements as a web application. They are made, shipped, played, and forgotten. So code cleanliness is generally an afterthought. And honestly, most indie game developers are not great programmers. But making a great game has very little to do with programming nowadays. The tooling has come so far that many hit indie games are now built using "no-code" solutions like Unreal Blueprints. And advertising that you hand coded the entire game in C with immaculate coding standards wont make it any more fun.
- autarch 5y ago> They are made, shipped, played, and forgotten. Terraria was released in 2011 and is still getting updates.
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- ramesh31 5y ago>Terraria was released in 2011 and is still getting updates. Yes, it was a runaway success. Terraria is a huge outlier in the indie scene for lasting so long. But my point is that the creator almost certainly was not planning to be maintaining this code 10 years later when he wrote it. And so it was written for speed and simplicity, not elegance and maintainability.
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- JoeyBananas 5y agoGames are being updated for a lot longer these days.