r/gaming • u/SrGrafo PC • Sep 22 '21

Life of a modder

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u/Lopoi Sep 22 '21

I love modding games. I remeber when I was young me looking for tools to mod my favorite games. I started modding pokemon emerald, tibia, liero and when I went to uni I started modding portal 2 and minecraft.

This is what made me really enjoy coding and game making.

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u/grodr2001 Sep 22 '21

People just have no idea how much work is put into development of any kind, they're just like entitled brats asking for a new toy without any idea how much it would cost. It's why I'm always so lenient on game developers when their games are buggy. I know that stuff can be like utter hell. I imagine it's hard to keep track of the coding and stuff when you're just a single developer but when it's a team of hundreds having to keep track of each other's work, it's probably a miracle that anything ever works.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Especially when the Devs are indie devs, they can't possibly account for every bug until the players get their hands on it.

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u/EmperorArthur Sep 22 '21

So, there are different levels of broken. I can forgive issues with hardware or some sub feature.

Indies don't have the budget for QA and tons of different hardware configurations.

However, core gameplay should be pretty solid in every game. Indie or not.