By the way, not a reflection on the man as a coder at all. A lot of software is written - to this day - via bad management and compensated by developer heroics.

By the way, not a reflection on the man as a coder at all. A lot of software is written - to this day - via bad management and compensated by developer heroics. It usually works. He was given an impossible task, where no heroics would have ever salvaged this. A few weeks to create a production-ready game for the holiday season. No talk of QA or anything. Just go and do it. A textbook death march. Been there.