Thread by @delaneykingrox

I don't think people are aware of just how much dicking around is required to do things in game development.

To get something to work you may have to dick around with the model, the shader code, the scripting, back to the model, then tweaking the material and repeat.

There is a lot of technical stuff that means a straightforward change may be... and this is a term you learn early on in your career... "non trivial".

One example is the client asked for a character to have much longer legs the day before a demo shipped.

No. No you can't.

Because that one change will require reauthoring of the animations, the model, the rig, the run speed, slowing and acceleration values, the collision...

A simple thing may require hours or even days of teamwork to implement, plus all the downstream things that occur as a result.

Sometimes tweaking a single number can break the game.

Even whe you are a pro- there is often a lot of dicking around to implement something.

Like, discovering a simple effect requires reauthoring the vertex colors of fifty objects, for example.

Making sure fifty things have just the right tag and then you discover that someone used overrides so you then need to hunt down every instance of the object and reset it.

Ticking the wrong box on an singke npc out of a hundred can cause a glitch where if you jump over it, your character's feet detect the npc as a walkable surface and IK your feet to their face.

One single mistake in a sea of information.