• maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Absolute fucking clown. He’s just scared of open sourcing old games because everyone will see how shitty his code is…

    • AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
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      That’s completely misguided, because people can see his code anyway (in his streams), and also because he will never finish or release his game

      • fartsparkles@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Probably little incentive to do so given how much money they’re making from Twitch, YouTube, etc.

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      I mean, he’s said before that shitty code doesn’t make for a good or bad game. He gave examples of lots of successful games that have “bad” code and that it doesn’t matter and people should just make games.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Not sure if it’s still the case, but the code of balatro was a single giant file with if cases for every card

        Bad code can make great games. But it will also make them very hard to maintain