The worst thing about debugging is having nothing to show or talk about. Yes the game is exactly the same as before, but it breaks less now. Update over. #indiegamedev #solodev - ThreadSky

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social • 6 days ago

The worst thing about debugging is having nothing to show or talk about.

Yes the game is exactly the same as before, but it breaks less now. Update over.

#indiegamedev #solodev

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cidwel.bsky.social•6 days ago

That's my last 2 months of gamedev ,😭😭. Little to show

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Here is an image, see how it is not broken?

glitchedheart.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's so hard to get the project managers to agree to any refactoring time as well. Sure the game will run just as it did before but now it'll be easier to implement those new features you wanted.

gamekombinat.com•6 days ago

Literally have something like that in my changelog for the next release xD

Makes me sleep better at night. That's worth a lot to me thank you very much 😂

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

If I ever make changelogs it will be like: detailed balance changes then just like, also fixed some shit

gamekombinat.com•6 days ago

Cheeky changelogs are the best :D

overlordxkai.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do you ever run into a bug and it not like crashing the game but it's also kind of funny... So you think for a moment on whether to fix it or not?

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•5 days ago

We call those features

micalpixel.bsky.social•6 days ago

frfr.

"I did make progress on the game, really!!"

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

I should save art to add one at a time for times like this

dangersden.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh yes. Also when you're refactoring code to make way for a new big feature, but no visible part of the new big feature is built yet.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

I should just do daily progress made from 0-10

chriscsgames.bsky.social•6 days ago

think it is ok to share a little detail here or there. not doing it myself, because I am no code wizard. As a dev I welcome hints or gotchas to look out for.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well it's just kind of hard to explain a lot of them. And usually it's just because you typed the wrong thing or forgot something

Like I just fixed a bug that came up rarely, because when sorting cards in the last row, I accidentally used the last row count instead of the remaining slots in the row

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

So it's not you know, very exciting. Hey y'all, I was using the wrong variable but now it's the right one

chriscsgames.bsky.social•6 days ago

this NEVER(!!) happened to me :)

abramide.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yea. Our school project's in the final stretch and it's mostly debugging now. Hard to keep up motivation since you don't get that sense of progress 😅 my mind's already slipping to the next project I'm super excited for too, but gotta stay strong and polish for the last week.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

I'm not slipping or anything, I don't mind debugging. It just makes it more of a pain to share progress.

cryonautlex.bsky.social•6 days ago

I feel your pain. I rewrote my input and configuration (modding) systems this past week, to better support some longer-term goals. I've got almost zip to show for it.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Well, you've got a better functioning game! But yeah as far as showing anyone, nope

rasmusindie.bsky.social•6 days ago

Sounds like progress though. Meanwhile, this is literally me: "After two days of intense work, collision now breaks in a slightly more predictable way."

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

We've all been there. "After a week of concentrated effort, this extremely rare crash doesn't happen anymore probably"

rasmusindie.bsky.social•6 days ago

😭

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Gotta make sure to have the "probably" because you're never 100% sure it's totally gone

rasmusindie.bsky.social•6 days ago

So true. Good general gamedev advice.

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eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Press A to jump most of the time

yupmoh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Imagine being a backend engineer and you’re building systems for everyone to use while fixing and maintaining old ones so basically always debugging.

I always struggle explaining what I do to investors, it always goes over everyone’s head :(

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ew why do you have to talk to investors?

yupmoh.bsky.social•6 days ago

Being studio lead I have to haha.

eternalskiestcg.bsky.social•6 days ago

All I want is to do my own little thing and not have to interact with anyone in a business capacity ever