Balance Bug Prototyping 
PreMortem.Games
DECEMBER 16, 2024
RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. This also meant we had less dev time to fix bugs or optimize performance. In the end we’d rather tone down some of our more ambitious features to get acceptable performance, and deliver a bug-free and polished release to our players.
Radiator Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
I liked the idea of climbing / descending a big weird tree, and building it in Quake would be a big challenge, so that's what I prototyped first. This early prototype felt weird to play, because the player could just run around the big open landscape and lead monsters on a big chase.
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PreMortem.Games
MARCH 30, 2023
They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. We realised that it was a really interesting game and we could see where we’d take it in terms of scope and gameplay.”
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 20, 2023
They wanted to break away and create something different, so they started prototyping game ideas to work on. “We Dredge was one of the game ideas that we prototyped very early on. Getting a demo out well ahead of the release date allowed the team to receive feedback and make some changes ahead of time.
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
RimWorld is balanced around sitting on a single map, with everything easily accessible. This also meant we had less dev time to fix bugs or optimize performance. We had to work around some of these bugs and limitations, but they were minor issues overall.” Interacting with the wider world is entirely optional.
PreMortem.Games
MAY 29, 2024
Since then, I feel like I’ve learned how to balance work and life a bit better.” I had made dozens of smaller games and prototypes in my spare time while I worked my day job, but Dinkum is my first commercial product. Since then, I feel like I’ve learnt how to balance work and life a bit better.”
Radiator Blog
MARCH 16, 2023
It shows the everyday work of medium-scale commercial game dev in unprecedented detail: the creative high of successful collaboration as well as the ugly prototypes, grueling bug fixes, and painful miscommunication. They still need to balance this pre-production with finishing the studio's other projects too. What's the balance?
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