What Do You Hate About Game Design?

Posted by blackhole on July 11, 2012, 12:24 a.m.

More specifically, what is the most infuriating or otherwise painful part of game development? Listing multiple things is encouraged, with the most annoying listed first.

Comments

Castypher 11 years, 10 months ago

Have a +1 for not lurking.

link2x101 11 years, 10 months ago

Starting a project and getting loads of work done, only to get caught up on something and forget about it.

Castypher 11 years, 10 months ago

Here's another one. Making a slight alteration to, say, an enemy's damage, and accidentally invoking a new, hardly related bug.

In fact, fixing bugs to create more bugs is one of my biggest annoyances.

blackhole 11 years, 10 months ago

Based on the answers here, I'm pretty sure 50% of people on 64digits are artists who need to get someone else to do the programming for them.

Haizen 11 years, 10 months ago

That's so the truth. If I had time to focus on my art no telling how far i'd be into content with my game. I should have teamed up with someone early-on in development instead of spending half a year updating old code and fixing bugs.

Kunedon 11 years, 10 months ago

I don't even know where I stand on the art/programming side. I think I'm in the middle.

Kunedon 11 years, 10 months ago

Then that means I'm still an amateur at game design. My ideas seem to be too simple. Without a little assistance they're doomed to stay that way.

Taizen Chisou 11 years, 10 months ago

i marginally dislike producing a feature and having it break the shit out of everything else

KaBob799 11 years, 10 months ago

I can never find enough original music/effects, it makes me lose my motivation every time. Same thing with good graphics, but I can make good enough graphics for some of my game projects so sound is the big issue.

blackhole 11 years, 10 months ago

Kabob needs bfxr: http://www.bfxr.net/