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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.
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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I've been looking at a few games code as I learn better that way converting from what I already know. Belle's was the first that has had decent commenting and looked logical to me even though it's truly massive.
Plus the variables actually mean something rather than just "xxx1" with me ending up with a page of notes what each is related to.
I broke down and joined his Patreon just for that despite my hatred for it.
Thank you for that. In case you don't know, I also have a SubscribeStar account (check my signature) for those who don't want to deal with Patreon.
Only a little over 8 hours left until version 0.28.0 releases for patrons and subscribers. If you've forgotten about the game while I took my break, this is the perfect time to check back in.
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U MONSTER!!!Only a little over 8 hours left until version 0.28.0 releases for patrons and subscribers. If you've forgotten about the game while I took my break, this is the perfect time to check back in.
