Artistic Science

dramarising:

regarding this:

Are some people forgetting they're literally working on REWRITING the ENTIRE coliseum? THEY’RE RE-WRITING IT. Why would they fix the bugs in the current version of it when they’re working on an entirely new version? Be patient, guys. Yes there’s problems. Yes it might cause some computers to heat up. But hopefully when the re-written coli comes around, that won’t happen anymore.

hi there, friend! i’m a self-taught video game developer who specializes in HTML5 games (the same language that the coliseum is written in), and i’m here to tell you that it would literally take ten minutes from start to finish for the programmers to add some bug fixes or even coliseum accessibility. i want you to read that again and again until that sinks into your brain! some of these bugs are stupidly simple problems derived from sloppy coding that would take up to an hour to fix. for example, the the-first-turn-is-skipped bug could be fixed in less than thirty minutes by creating a zero-EXP, invisible enemy that gets the first few turns and self-destructs then. ideally, that’s should be a temporary fix, but it seems like it may be the only thing doable in this situation.

it’s obvious that something isn’t right with the programmers. my guess is that almost all of the coding is done by the artists now, and the only thing that they can actually do is duplicate and slightly tweak the code put in by the “actual” programmers. that’s why we got rainsong jungle before the new coli launch – the programmers are putting in minimal work (if any at all), and the artists are copy-pasting the programmers’ code into new things in an attempt to save face and look busy. think about it: which admins post site updates most often? you almost never hear a peep from the programmers. it’s the artists who post any announcements from new apparel to coliseum additions. this would also be why major bug fixes (like many coli bugs) are rare: the artists don’t know enough about the code to fix it. if they knew more, they would also be labelled as programmers, but they don’t and consequentially aren’t.