When Code Is Barely Hanging Together

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There’s a word for games where the code is barely hanging together, with stupid layout, utterly unscalable fixes and workarounds on top of workarounds. “Shipped”

What it means

A screenshot of a tweet by game developer Mike Bithell jokes about games built from messy, unscalable code and endless workarounds. The punchline is that the word for such a game is simply “Shipped,” poking fun at the industry habit of releasing software despite technical debt. EN: A screenshot of a tweet by game developer Mike Bithell jokes about games built from messy, unscalable code and endless workarounds. The punchline is that the word for such a game is simply “Shipped,” poking fun at the industry habit of releasing software despite technical debt.

Who

Mike Bithell (Майк Битхелл)

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