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#Shorts #GameDev #Undertale

[thewindwakinghero]

Ah yes, UNDERTALE is being held together by determination and glue.

[talleywa]

Programmers: "Why isn't this working?"
Also programmers: "Why IS this working?"

[waffleswafflson]

Learned this from being a Dungeon Master. The real illusion isnt whats behind the curtain. Its the curtain itself.

[thomasdavis]

Had a classmate back in high school game programming class. She would use endless amounts of booleans in her code. We called her the boolean queen.

[zenreos]

Basically programmers:
"If it works, It works"
"Idk why it works, but it works"

[samuelsalvatore]

the fact that the game is so responsive to the player's actions in such a cathartic way, while at the same time being so terribly coded is amazing

[Caaaaaarl]

"It just works"
~Todd Howard, 2015

[jerethkhan]

Undertale's text all being a switch case is because Toby was an Earthbound modder and Earthbound's underlining text code was also tons of switch case with other embedded game code.

[Jokerfaic]

Okay, this is actually extremely encouraging.

[SuperbFairy]

Knowing that one day, the mouse might finish its 10, 000 lines of terrible code for one room, it fills you with determination

[frank]

As long as your horrific code doesn’t ruin preformance for a game: your code can be the most Eldritch Horror ever

[Ranger]

"...Sets the value to zero and checks it again" I'm dying🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[vinnyandlin]

I remember hearing something about how Toby Fox wanted to have a completed genocide run delete the game from your computer but he didn't know how to program that

[EpicWolverine]

I also like the story about how Toby couldn’t figure out why Undyne kept walking off the path, so he just had magic glass panels appear for her to walk on when this happened. The player doesn’t care if that wasn’t really intended if it makes sense in-universe.

[nicholasbutler]

That's both motivational (as someone who wants to make games) and horrifying (as someone who plays undertale)

[hhill]

I love the mentality of "let the compiler sort it out." Sometimes it just works

[Cooperink]

You look at the coding for Undertale - It fills you with determination

[planetnydro]

As a programmer, I really want to take a peek behind that curtain. The fact it works is both mildly impressive and horrifying

[Xenomnipotent]

Bro dropped the most motivational speech for aspiring game developers and thought we wouldn’t notice

[Bealzabub]

This advice reminds me so much of my time doing theater and how much I've slowly realized that storytelling is just being careful about what the audience sees and how they perceive it