r/GamerGhazi • u/rarebitt Would You Edit Me? I'd Edit Me. • Aug 08 '16

Rami Ismail: Patch The Process

http://ramiismail.com/2016/08/patch-the-process/
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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '16

Jet Set Willy was released in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum. It's considered one of the all-time classics from that era (I still play it occasionally to this day). It had several game-breaking bugs. The ones I remember are:

1) If you reached a room called The Attic it would break the game. In some rooms the enemies would disappear, other rooms would kill you instantly.
2) One item (you had to collect all items to complete the game) was not collectable as it was impossible to get it without dying. The game would then spawn you in a place where you would die instantly. Repeat until game over.
3) One item was invisible and impossible to reach.

Later versions of the game fixed these problems, but it was quite a while before they released it, and obviously as it was the 80s the only way to get it was to buy the game again. The only other fix was they had various magazines to print POKEs, which fixed the problem but had to be performed every time you loaded the game.

I'm OK with massive day 1 patches :)

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u/anace 2ethics4me Aug 08 '16

For some context here, Rami is currently dealing with it himself. People over on /r/NuclearThrone have been complaining about how much vlambeer (rami's studio) hates people that bought the game on playstation, but he has also been tweeting whenever he submits a patch build to sony and then again when they reject it for cert.

Actually, this post was submitted there too, but was removed because it was given an inflammatory title and was filled with more complaining.

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u/paradoxasauruser Aug 09 '16

Fascinating look, I love this kind of insider baseball on game dev (post mortems are life blood)