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Respawn says "single line" of Apex Legends code was behind elusive audio bug

Game Developer

The dev team said finding the bug was like searching for a "needle in a haystack."

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Turning Bugs Into Features

Game Developer

This post will review how I took a bug that I needed to fix and turned it into a standout feature for our game.

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Finding a New Balance Between AI and Beneficial Bugs

Game Developer

'Bugs are an integral part of games culture and the social networks that games build around themselves.'

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What does the process look like when removing a bug from your game? And how does the team decide which bugs to prioritize fixing?

Ask a Game Dev

The overall process of bug fixing in game dev is done in five steps. In order these are: Identify the bug Prioritize the bug Assign the bug Fix the bug Verify the bug is fixed Each step usually has its own specialists handling that aspect of it. Well go over each of these briefly.

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Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles delisted on iOS after 'unfixable' bug

Game Developer

Changes to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles' payment model on iOS prevented players from accessing content they bought in its free and paid versions.

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Pete Hines on Starfield, Bethesda and bugs: "We embrace chaos"

GamesIndustry.biz

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Starfield is not technically out until next week, yet it is already dominating conversations in many ways across the games space – and inevitably bugs are a factor.

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Book Excerpt: Animal Crossing tracks the rise of the original cozy life sim

Game Developer

Video game preservationist and historian Kelsey Lewin tells the story of how a mundane-sounding game full of bug-catching, letter-writing, and furniture-collecting became one of Nintendo's best-loved franchises.

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