Complicate Your Code Unnecessarily: Bad Game Production Advice

Want some bad game production advice? Complicate your code unnecessarily! What does that mean? I’ll give an example from when I was a programmer and we put in an elevator that had multiple floors, an NPC inside, lights, and many more complications. Using the elevator example I discuss what happened, how it happened, why it was a bad thing, how you can recover if this starts to happen to you, and how to avoid it ever happening to you in the first place. A quick video in a new series about bad advice and worst practices instead of best game production practices. Have a question for an expert game producer? Ask me your question here: https://jennsand.com/askjenn/ Text version: https://jennsand.com/advice/bad-complicate-code/ Video version: https://youtu.be/wdI-j1GInsw Jenn’s Generally Good Game Production Advice: Complicate Your Code Unnecessarily: Bad Game Production Advice 00:00 Introduction to the Elevator Problem 00:54 How it Happened 01:42 Why it was bad 02:08 How to Recover 02:21 How to Avoid 02:48 Conclusion Jenn’s Generally Good Game Production Advice is an advice column for our modern ages and for game developers everywhere. In this mini series, we instead focus on BAD advice and worst practices. These stories will help you learn from my mistakes in order to make better games. Find out more about how to hire me: jennsand.com