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SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is why you should always give your developer “free dev time” where they work on what they feel like, or what they think is important outside of the approved scope.

They have fun and will likely fix something your players will be asking for.

Someone is going to stream that 0.1% run on twitch and market the hell out of your game. Just look at Luality that completed dark souls with a DDR dancepad.

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tabris@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Until recently I worked for a big telecoms company as a software engineer. We had time set aside for self development and non-work projects. Originally it was half a day a week, but we found it better to be a day every fortnight.

You could learn a new programming language or tool, build something just for fun or something you thought was useful for the team (we built a custom dashboard with notices etc., a quiz engine for weekly quizzes), or add functionality to a project that wasn’t specced or requested, but you thought could add value.

After a while, a department wide code wars league was set up to challenge and learn, we had a yearly Easter egg hunt that involved solving puzzles to find prizes, people did lightning talks to teach things that they’d learnt, workshops, etc.

So much knowledge, skill and confidence was added to the team that was worth way more than what we’d do on any normal day. I’d recommend it to any technical team to try something similar.

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- Adori@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Would love to see this in an architecture team
  
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  - silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’ve got one day a fortnight to spend arguing about what was worst about Lean Code with some random wanker on the internet
    
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babybus@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

will likely fix something your players will be asking for

Or they will add Kinect support to your game. You never know.

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- Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Truly a double edged sword.
  
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Amanduh@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve seen a chick playing 2 darksouls games one with ddr pad and one with controller at the same time fighting bosses lol

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Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Depends on the situation. Sometimes “the boring bits” need to be done. And supporting such an old hardware that nobody has won’t pay off in 99.9% of the circumstances. It’s basically lightning in a bottle type of deal. Also stuff like this can be done post release among bugfixing to give a dev a break from monotony.

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