David AmadorSkyrim small tables are actually shelves buried. If you can't see it ...
(Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
(Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
In Jak and Daxter if by any chance the Area/assets ahead aren't fully loaded the game will make you trip to give it more time to fully load. #gamedev
In Super Mario 64 to achieve the infinite stairs effect, Mario gets teleported back. Also the reason why Speedrunners can glitch and skip it using the backwards jump trick. #gamedev
There was a memory exception in Wing Commander on exit, because of the deadline they left it but change the error message to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!" #gamedev
This #gamedev trick is from Undertale, to prevent NPCs to walk on pits, Magic glass.
In Fallout 3 the Trains are actually a character wearing a train model as a hat. Engine didn't allow for vehicles, so this way they could reuse NPC movement code. #gamedev
Ted@djlink this has continued to be one of my favorite "if the engineers won't build it the designers will do something wierd" story
@esdin ahah same, the has to be tons of stories like this, after a certain point in production coders might not have time to put new features and designers creativity gets unleashed.