Comments on: Slowly but surely http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/130/slowly-but-surely/ Phil Steinmeyer's rumblings on the game biz, programming, and life Sat, 17 May 2008 07:06:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Phil Steinmeyer http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/130/slowly-but-surely/#comment-6964 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:38:12 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/130/slowly-but-surely/#comment-6964 Yeah, not the best, but easy for me to find. In a nutshell, whereas most engineering types are willing to make reasonable compromises to get a first system up and out the door, they often shoot for perfection with the 'second system', causing it to take far too long or never be completed at all, oftentimes for architectural benefits that are questionable at best. Yeah, I've probably got a touch of that with my next game... Yeah, not the best, but easy for me to find. In a nutshell, whereas most engineering types are willing to make reasonable compromises to get a first system up and out the door, they often shoot for perfection with the ’second system’, causing it to take far too long or never be completed at all, oftentimes for architectural benefits that are questionable at best.

Yeah, I’ve probably got a touch of that with my next game…

]]> by: Humbaba http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/130/slowly-but-surely/#comment-6952 Wed, 13 Sep 2006 19:12:21 +0000 http://www.philsteinmeyer.com/130/slowly-but-surely/#comment-6952 Wow, that wikipedia article was truly terrible. Wow, that wikipedia article was truly terrible.

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