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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by ido on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:12AM (#31749355)
Not sure if this is a joke but unit testing is generally not used in games, definitely not in plam games 20 years ago.
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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by Gigachad on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:42AM (#31749498)
Games use integration tests. You push a new build to steam and check reddit to see if it worked.
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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by Jagerbizzle on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:00AM (#31749606)
Hilarious post that's also sadly quite accurate.
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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by throwaway742 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:58AM (#31749593)
That's the same way Microsoft tests their updates.
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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by sk0g on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:43AM (#31749503)
Unit testing is not too rare in (modern) games.

There's a comment on HN from a Rare employee going into how they do their testing, for example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14802509

Edit: It's a 5 year old thread and I have a few comments in there... Fuck I'm old.

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Re:Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20 ye... by maccard on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @06:08AM (#31751012)
> Unit testing is not too rare in (modern) games.

In my experience, unit testing is _incredibly_ rare, and Rare are pretty much the only studio that I'm aware of that do it.

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