December 17th, 2020 Q&A Q&A: How proud are you of the code you wrote and systems you helped make in Satisfactory?

December 17th, 2020 Q&A

Q&A: How proud are you of the code you wrote and systems you helped make in Satisfactory?

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again how proud on a scale of zero 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, like what you're mentioning here is 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's just not really like achievable but also, we thought you know you know you sort of directed this at me but I thought you know what we'll we'll open this up to, everyone in in in the office and this is the response that we got

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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 get forget the perfection just move forward what does a day in the life of community