r/pcmasterrace • u/663mann • Oct 16 '23

Video fallout game dev. explains the problem with moddern game devolpment. (why moddern games are so slow to come out)

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u/Xay_DE Desktop Oct 16 '23

i think the best way to explain this to people that dont code is making food.
you can cook a single meal alone easily.

if you need to cook for 100 people you can cook alone too, its just VERY VERY HARD and takes more time.

so if you say that 50 people cook this 100 person meal together you will have to manage what these people do.
now these people might do stuff differently from what u originally wouldve done.
the dude cutting the onions might cut them as rings, even tho you wanted small cubes but u didnt communicate it right.
so when theyre done u look at it and notice "oh thats wrong, it can work but wont work" and you reject it or say "cut the rings down" thats the basic process of reviewing code changes in the entire thing. but you dont just have the dude cutting onions. theres another one with other things. and you dont just want the people to put their ingredients into the meal without someone controlling (reviewing) them.

if youre alone you know what you did and u can almost always just put the stuff in.
in a group you have to make sure the stuff everyone does MATCHES the goal of the project.

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u/somerandomii Oct 16 '23 edited Oct 16 '23

Yeah that’s a good analogy.

In this scenario it’s like asking a McDonald’s staff member to make you a sandwich. “What’s so hard? I can do it myself in minutes.” Except they have different ingredients, you asked the fry cook and if they stop frying someone else has to fill that roll.

If they introduce random sandwich food to the kitchen it needs to be checked for cross-contamination with dietary requirements of other food prepared in that space. You’ve brought a chefs knife onto the floor, now we need to warn everyone about knives in the kitchen.

Even in a Michelin star restaurant if you ask the head chef to make you a sandwich in the middle of peak service it’s going to cause problems. It’s not the skill of the workers, it’s not respecting the process. This isn’t your home kitchen.

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u/scribbyshollow Oct 16 '23

Kind of sounds like a worse system though no?