December 17th, 2020
Q&A: How proud are you of the code you wrote and systems you helped make in Satisfactory?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JXPsTlJIiI&t=379
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Jace
How proud, on a scale of 0 to 100, are you of the code you wrote and systems you helped make in Satisfactory?
The question then goes on to sort of say, it's something I struggle with sometimes wanting to be a perfectionist, but knowing that perfection is the enemy of good enough.
Sometimes I find some of my stuff well below my own standard and I never get around to improving it because everything else is more important.
So this is kind of just like what you're mentioning here.
It's kind of just like a problem that is pretty common in game development, I suppose.
And you kind of need to find that balance between perfection and good enough, because sometimes perfection is just not really achievable.
But also, we thought, you know, you sort of directed this at me, but I thought, you know what, we'll open this up to everyone in the office.
And this is the response that we got.
Yeah, so you can go back and pause that if you want to read it all, but I think this is kind of telling.
I think this tells this person, surprise only, who asked this question.
I think this maybe gives you this heads up that a lot of the people working on this game right now feel they don't know what the hell they're doing either.
Forget the perfection.
Just move forward.