| Dusty |
09-06-2013 04:40 AM |
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Posted by HON3Y BADG3R
(Post 407548)
Nerfing it will only lead to a bad rep. Dusty is better off taking more time to make it perfection.
As my mom always says: don't half-ass things
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It's not even perfection so much as making sure things are actually working properly. You'd be surprised how differently some simple things work between PC(dedicated client where I initially script/test everything), iOS/Android, and Flash. Some things practically broke entire systems I had already scripted, which meant more work digging into the core scripts and fixing/working around whatever wasn't cooperating between all versions. Then of course there's actual testing content, and the more content there is, the more it has to be tested. And you can't test something once, "oh it works!" I put hours into just... playing the new content over and over and cleaning up bugs. Then playing some more and cleaning more bugs, and possibly new bugs introduced by fixing other bugs. And then you do this with each platform/client :) Let me just say there were lots of major bugs found this way. There would have been huge problems if I didn't bother to be as thorough as I was.
It sucks that I can't be more specific about the work that went into it(and why it's taking so long) because I don't want to spoil anything, but maybe it'll be fun to sit and talk details with players after the release.
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