#fixing bugs

[askagamedev]

re: bug fixing. How often do you receive reports that subjective, or incomplete? I worked at a studio where I would get assigned tasks like “actor look weird here” alongside an attached video capture, or “mission 167 is broke”. These would come from playthroughs by higher ups, they would have a top proprity attached to them, and quite often they were not reproducible or not fixable (systems would need to be rewritten). Is that normal?

Yeah, it's pretty normal. These kind of bugs commonly come in via playthroughs during a feature review (usually producers, sometimes designers/engineers/art/QA, sometimes bigwigs), and often have only the comments made during the review for context. It usually requires some analysis after the fact, optimally with video footage of the playthrough to help provide some context to the issue. These kind of issues often have to go through production and get reviewed by the subject matter experts to interpret what is actually being asked. Once that's figured out, they get assigned. The bad thing is that these bugs are often difficult to reproduce consistently by QA (or they'd have been written up by QA already), but the behavior happens often enough that the bug is still a must-fix.

In that kind of situation, a hard-to-reproduce bug is often tasked to an engineer with a solid understanding of the systems who can track the bad behavior through the code, script, and assets to figure out what's causing it. These engineers aren't necessarily responsible for fixing the bug, but they are the specialists who figure out the cause of the bad behavior (e.g. animation X got checked in with a bad export) so that someone on the team can fix it (e.g. animator re-exports animation X).

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[cookiedough77]

something i havent seen anyone say about the old miraculous animation is that you dont realize how they MOVE like they look like dolls, puppets moving, the way their limbs bend and move and it looks incredibly weird

while in the new animation, they actually look like, idk, PEOPLE???

ive had this thought even before new animation its just very prevalent now

[habken]

waow

[sisyphusunderthesun]

The rooftop scene is my everything. So like... when will they fix this bug and give us the opportunity to make Connor a deviant right there? WITH THE KISS.

[princescar]

Actually really like the sketch for this, might actually make it two separate drawings.

[ewkpop]

casual caturday morning grooming

[leafzee]

on being scared of bugs

[ooliecat]

love your robots

[ohsleepie]

Neil has an ongoing beef with one of their cats. They both take lap time with andrew very seriously.

[lilybug-02]

In da hat for today.

Bug Fact: There are more than 1,000,000 different kinds (species) of insects known in the world. About 7,000 new species are found each year.

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[ataleofcrowns]

I don't think anyone actually asked for this, but considering how many people replay the game to try out different routes and Crowns, I have now added a cheat sheet functionality that shows you which choices get you points for which personality trait! Should make it easier to customize your Crown on repeat playthroughs, though of course, for first time players I recommend they play it with the cheat sheet off.

Restart the game from the starting screen, and you should get an option to turn it on or off from the beginning ✨

[bigjinx]

but you’re not a kicked dog, are you? and you don’t really need the armor, do you?

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[mournmage]

Right, I see you there, Blondie. Don't worry.

[cyberpunkaddict]

P a n a m P a l m e r

[todays-xkcd]

After some account issues, we've added 6 new people from the beach house rental website support forum.

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[Part of a discussion thread in progress on an online forum is shown. Each comment has the writer's avatar to the left of the text and small illegible text immediately above the text. Part of the first comment's text is cut off at the top.]

Commenter #1: Same issue here. Commenter #2: I'm having this problem too. None of the posted fixes work. Commenter #3: Same. Commenter #4: +1. So frustrating. Commenter #5: I'm still having this. Did you all ever figure out a fix? Commenter #6: Same problem as everyone. I tried the steps in the posts here, here, and here. Nothing. Commenter #7: Add me to the list. Commenter #8: Same. Ugh. Can't believe this thread is 5 years old now. Commenter #9: Where does everyone live? Do we want to get a beach house for a weekend or something?

[Caption below the image:] At some point, you just have to give up on fixing the bug and embrace the fact that you have dozens of new friends.