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I really like the story about the programmer faces to match the frame rate. I enjoy solutions that employ humor and human aspects.
by snprbob86 17y ago
I really like the story about the programmer faces to match the frame rate. I enjoy solutions that employ humor and human aspects.
- TeHCrAzY 17y agoProbally the most clever hack in the list, as it is a hack on the human brain.
- DTrejo 17y agoYou'll like this comment then :) ----- (Author: Hélder Gomes Filho) And I was thinking that only newbies like me shipped those horrendous code... :P At university there was a team (not related to me, but these guys are the perfect example :P) that made a FPS flash game... For some bizarre reason, the programmer instead of checking if you was colliding with the wall and not allow you go there, he made the inverse, he checked if there was a wall, and allowed you to move parallel to it... This sparked a bizarre bug: In crossings, you could not actually cross, only turn to the passage on your left or right. The deadline was closing, and they had no idea on how to fix it... Then the team writer fixed the issue! He told the artist to draw a animation of hands touching the walls, and then he wrote in the story that the protagonist was blind and needed to touch the walls to know where he was going.
- pkaler 17y agoI worked with Nick on that project. And the pictures were more than just about framerate. It was a reminder that we were all a team and that we were all working very hard. It humanized the problem and really made everyone aware that we had to help each other out to ship the game.