You have no idea how glad I am to hear this and how sad it makes me when I think how many IT departments don't take their main job as seriously. When I was still in process optimization I consulted with my brother a few times (He is the smart one and a Software Engineer). He usually shrugged and told me that either something out of a zoo designed the Databanks/Network or they hired some cheap external consultant that never expected to see his abominable digital spawn again. When the pro starts squinting and swearing you know it's gonna be one of those projects again.
Bring back the days of when computers had a limited amount of memory and the software had to be written and optimised to fit.
Now some companies seem to write their software with the goal of lets see how much memory we can make our customers buy.
Or progress from 360kb, 720kb, 1.44 mb floppy to CD then onto DVD and nowadays internet connection is required for download.
Now some companies seem to write their software with the goal of lets see how much memory we can make our customers buy.
Or progress from 360kb, 720kb, 1.44 mb floppy to CD then onto DVD and nowadays internet connection is required for download.
I always thoroughly playtest my updates, testing every option and every path that I can imagine to be relevant. While it's impossible to detect every bug in a software solution before releasing it to the public, no matter how well you test it, I still manage to make my releases next to bug-free.
Several other high-profile adult game developers usually warn that you should "expect lots of bugs" in their updates, which makes me wonder what the hell they are doing. I have never dared look at their code, for I value my sanity too much. Coding a visual novel-style game in Ren'py isn't something that should normally lead to bug-bonanza.
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Remember punch cards?
When they became obsolete most eventually ended up being used as book markers or turned into Christmas Wreathes.
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I have looked at some developer's code. I'm pretty sure one game (Daddy's Goodnight Kiss) actually made me stupider. He had an event with 3 steps, with a state variable for each step. The possible actions in each step were the same (which girl you talked to). He used numbers instead of defined constants for his states, and the number corresponding to each girl was different in the different stages. Like the girls would be (respecitvely) 1,2,3, then 2,3,1, then 3,1,2. Drove me crazy trying to figure out how to fix the bugs in that and how to get every possible dialog. Plus it was an uncommented mess (he shipped .rpys, not just .rpycs). I have no idea how he understood what his code did when he looked at it the next day.
In my job, I got a bug report about a certain feature. I haven't thought about how I'm going to code the fix, but I've already thought about how I'm going to test it. Testing can be a PITA, but my motto is "if it's not tested, it doesn't work".
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Like i said, a thing of the past. Not even just h games. It's a standard that's been established with over the net updates being so easy and readily available.
There absolutely is testing in games. Bugs are triaged, however, for severity. Market forces make dates more important to revenue. It's a negative feedback loop.
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The Leanan Sídhe and Belle, though two other women make brief appearances as well.
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We had them at school in computer studies. Write out your code and was sent off to be put on punch cards and ran on a computer off campus. The following week you got the cards and results back if your program ran.
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Why do you ask? That information is always available at the top of my Patreon/SubscribeStar pages.
Belle has one of the best written code among all of the Ren'py games i've played. I'd say only HydraHenker and Icstor come close to his coding level.
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ICStor doesn't do the codeing himself from what I recall... all he seems to do is renders... and at an astonishing slow rate none the less
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ICSTOR's coder?
I was just looking through his code, trying to figure out how to set Linda's name for Q Who. Dude sets her name in at least 10 different places, in many different files.
ONCE! SET IT ONCE!
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