Comment on If you could only play 10 games for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago Little things like picking sounds and determining timings for various actions requires a lot of trial-and-error so you have to test it as you do it. Doing all of that through a QA team would slow down development very hard. Not to mention that I’m a hobbyist game dev and I don’t have money to hire anyone :D
I suppose I could always ask my friends to help me out with that… adding scheduling as another problem during development :D
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Yeah, that makes sense. Okay, maybe you can playtest while you’re still developing the game, but once the game is ready to be played in full, you can’t continue to play it unless it’s for making updates or whatever. Basically you can only play it for the purposes of development, not for the sake of playing a game.
Or maybe you can’t playtest at all and you do everything blind and the end result is a chaotic mess, that could be fun too. But probably the first one.
Development hell never was so fun!