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Re:Why Timothy Cain creator of Fallout left Fallout 2 during... by thrwy41 on Saturday May 27, 2023 @07:34PM (#36099512)
Another post here says "it took weeks 10+ hours day to fins it", which sounds like a major fuck up if that results with you are missing a deadline or cutting features
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Re:Why Timothy Cain creator of Fallout left Fallout 2 during... by h0l0cube on Saturday May 27, 2023 @08:52PM (#36100025)
> a major fuck up

Any experienced programmer knows off-by-one errors are very common. There’s even a joke about it:

> There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

The real fuck up is the common sin of games industry ownership and management that applies unrealistic timelines to AAA games development which, especially in the days of in-house built render engines, were some of the most complicated software engineering endeavours around.

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