#even the shallowest look into it will reveal awful workplace many people have to work in

[finhascandles]

In addition to this, we gotta remember unlike movies or tv shows, game development is particular kind of hell which is basically running on duct tapes and hope.

Any kind of quirks or animation added, the developers will have to figure out hundreds of bugs that will follow. Some ideas work, some don't, entire levels are scrapped and discarded because it just doesn't flow with the gameplay. Add to that the crunch and abuse they endure from executives, managers, the entire gaming culture, it's nothing short of a miracle games even come out.

On 20's coal miner hours some workers have to deal with the corners will be cut, the shortest route will be taken. If the industry practices were more humane, less cruel, perhaps more elegant solution could've been achieved but these are the hands we're dealt with and it did work in some way.

I know Bethesda has the (well deserved) reputation of creating their games out of hacked together duct-tape-laden spaghetti code on an ancient quirky engine but I feel like FromSoft deserves their fair mention too. Bonfires aren't objects, they're a visual mesh with an invisible NPC standing on top of it that you "talk to" when you want to sit. Tons of enemies are just two NPCs glued on top of one another because they didn't know how to make an enemy have more than one attack that can fire off at a time. Winter lanterns' frenzy buildup attack comes from an invisible guy sitting on their heads shooting you with an invisible gun. Djura doesn't shoot you with his gatling gun, he just sits there doing nothing (with his cape sitting right around his ears due to how the game renders cloth physics from far away) because the actual NPC shooting you is the gun itself. Lothric and Lorian aren't two separate NPCs holding onto each other, they're one NPC with a second, invisible NPC glued to its back that takes damage on behalf of Lothric. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride on another one. They straight up went "We couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride another, so we combined two NPCs into one and then glued another one to its back, simple." Really it's amazing how much of FromSoft's game design is just "we put an invisible guy here to do things because we couldn't figure out how to make the visible guy do it"

Even Elden Ring for all its advancements in mounts and whatnot has hilarious behind the scenes quirks. When Radahn does his meteor attack he doesn't track you, he teleports his horse underneath you and then aims at the horse