T w e n t y S i d e d
My earlier post made me think of the image below, which was making the email rounds a few years ago. I don’t even remember who sent it to me or where it came from, but it’s always been one of my favorites.
This is not that far from the truth.
Object-Disoriented Programming
C++ is a wonderful language for making horrible code.
Revisiting a Dead Engine
I wanted to take the file format of a late 90s shooter and read it in modern-day Unity. This is the result.
Chainmail Bikini
A horrible, railroading, stupid, contrived, and painfully ill-conceived roleplaying campaign. All in good fun.
Batman: Arkham City
A look back at one of my favorite games. The gameplay was stellar, but the underlying story was clumsy and oddly constructed.
Control
A wild game filled with wild ideas that features fun puzzles and mind-blowing environments. It has a great atmosphere, and one REALLY annoying flaw with its gameplay.
Heh, I have a variant of that poster hanging in my cube (this is pretty much what I do)…
Man, I remember seeing something a lot like that as Xerox-ware 30 years ago. Scary that it’s just as relevant today as it was then.
Bureaucracy would have designed it like the analyst, except without the left-side support.
Instead there would be hanging from the left branch at least one geegaw (insisted on by the legal department), a whatsit (to fulfill Minority/Women Business subcontracting goals) and a dumbfoozle (required to obtain federal funding), and they would be balanced by a huge thingamajig to the right (forced on the project by a politician).
And don’t forget the peons sticking bandaids on the cracks in the remaining support…
Oh good lord. And I just heard today our analysts are so far behind us programmers are being retasked with writing requirements. For stuff that’s already been developed, natch.
I think I must post this on my cube.
Ha! Sounds like our work! I mean, not where I work now…another place. A place I USED to work at, you know…before.
I like the subtle Discworld reference…
HAHAHAHA…. it just keeps getting better!
FYI.. it took me 2 days (at work) to read DMoTR… yesterday and today…lol :D