this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
253 points (98.8% liked)

Programmer Humor

19176 readers
1200 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Feyter@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
BurningTurtle@programming.dev
253
Quantum Lock suspends sales due to developers losing access to source code (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 month ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
65 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

QL was our first game and although it was a big milestone for us, it was created at a time before we understood version control software. We do not have access to the source code anymore and cannot make any fixes or changes to the game. Because of this, we have decided to disable the ability for anyone to buy copies of the game. Thank you for your time and feel free to reach out to us.

The trailer looks like an awesome vaporwave freeze tag indie game.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So they were developing the game by sharing zips of their versions? OMG. There should be a tutorial of minimum Dev knowledge for wanna be new developers. They have very cool ideas, but the way they program...

For example Shadows of Doubt. Was running super bad last time I checked out. I think that too much accessibility to game Dev tools is lowering the quality of a lot of games (in resource hungry sense).

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check out the dev stories from PalWorld, they bought a LOT of USB drives haha.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

That sounds hella painful

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 month ago

IIRC it was made by two people, only one of which was a developer.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

It is still in early access and optimising the game is their current goal according to the road map, though as the whole concept of the game is about simulating every NPC properly at all times it's always going to be really heavy game to run.
And you are right about accessibility making resource hungry games more common - they allow indies to make projects and use concepts that would have been scrapped as technically non-viable by a publisher before. Shadows of Doubt started development back in 2015, which would have meant reducing the scope of the game until it ran on a PS4. Being indie, they could just do whatever instead, and now it's going to be enough if they can make it run acceptably on a PS5.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 4 points 1 month ago

I wonder how much overhead Shadows of Doubt spends just on maintaining all the NPC schedules, gotta be some room for optimization there.