The secret language of Game Devs

[shadowfox]

Found an epic post on Gamasutra which is a compilation of those special code-words and phrases devs use amongst themselves - great reading for anyone who's ever worked in a dev environment, and even some who haven't (I've come across a couple of them myself)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6504/a_game_studio_culture_dictionary.php

I'm partial to the term dice humped - since every game that relies on RNG seems to hate me.

 

[Zomosa]

Really interesting, thank you for the link.

Hahahaha.

Chicken and Egg Problem: A workflow or engineering problem where two things (usually code and content) depend on one to exist before the other.

Yoda Conditional: if ( CONSTANT == variable ) instead of if ( variable == CONSTANT ).

 

[wheunis]

Shadow, you always have the most interesting things to peruse.

Thanks again. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

 

[shadowfox]

I should probably have posted a warning that it's quite a long read?

Bugger it ... people can find out for themselves