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Jamesac wrote:Congratulations! Now to see the game fly through first try and this round of forms to be complete forever. Good luck!

Can't believe it's this far along in the development process and whoever is publishing still hasn't announced a thing. Don't they know how impatient we get? :)
CANNOT TELL YOU A THING, all that "communication" issue is "out of my hands" and been told "no, not yet!" ...

Maybe they want to do "a big surprise" when all is done ...
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I can't wait! I do wonder, though, what platform I'm going to have to buy this time...
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Is this the same thing Jeff is posting audio of? It sounds like you guys have a few irons in the fire.
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Frogacuda wrote:Is this the same thing Jeff is posting audio of? It sounds like you guys have a few irons in the fire.
NO ! That's ANOTHER thing I can't even talk about !

No "my thing" has finished "the first round of cert" and .. it did not pass, they found around 6 "must fix" bugs which to me is still "a success" given that this is my very first time with these platforms and I really had no idea how it could have gone.

It's not too bad, I am fixing stuff and when all is done and checked again we'll re-submit.

Jeff thing is .. is .. is something you never seen before, that's for sure 8)
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Nice, that's at least two things to look forward to :)
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"This company I cannot mention" .. "seems to want to make the developer STUPID" ...

Not that they don't help no, they do , but .. HECK IF THEY FIND THE MOST CONTORTED WAYS to do simpler things !!!

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Is the moneybags publisher asking you to remain silent and the platform holder asking you to jump through cert hoops the same company?
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Frogacuda wrote:Is the moneybags publisher asking you to remain silent and the platform holder asking you to jump through cert hoops the same company?
No no they are not the same.

I think it's part of the problem "of huge companies" the publishers "would publish the game yesterday if they could", they definitely have no interest to delay things (*), but the game must be "conformal" to "consoles standards" so there you go.

Must be said "it's all normal" they *ALL* ( all those that I've seen so far ) are a bit "contorted" when it comes down to procedures/certifications/etc. NO process I've seen so far is "too simple" :| ..

Probably is due the fact they are all big companies, I am guessing that to find "a smooth procedure from A to Z" is very hard.

(*) except when for their own reasons they want a thing "not to be out before" but that still has nothing to do with "certification issues".
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I dare to say "90% of the 'bugs' in consoles are ALL UI issues !" ..

Which sometime are trivial "most time NOT" ...

I *STRAFUCKING HATE* to fix UI ISSUES !

FUCKS UP all my "logic" in certain places .. "NO because when this happen we want the user to be notified with XYZ and offered a possibility to re-do WYK, displaying an error message is not good enough !" ...

This is the kind of stuff that "you tought one way, they think another" that fucks up "quite a few things" and forces you to change stuff that may crash or "make it go weird" other things forcing a re-testing of a lot of shit !!!

And it's all stuff that "it does NOT happen automagically 'by the system', no you have to get NUTS in implementing UI shit and handle this and that 'because what you done thinking it'ok it NOT WHAT THEY WANT" ...

It's like you try to open a file that cannot be open and and error message saying "Sorry can't open this file" WILL NOT DO because "no you have to play a background music, open a window with an emotional relax video, provide the option to see a videos with instructions about how to open a file, give the user 3 different options about what could be done, if the user selects '1' then <tons of shit>,'2' then <more tons of shit>, '3' send him a gift home meanwhile handling other 50 "possible error conditions" in all this .. " ..

Of course while doing so there could be 50 other things that could go wrong you have to test ...

This is why I *NEVER* *EVER* AGAIN want to touch "this type of code" once is done and if someone asks me "Could you add this in the UI .. "

THE ANSWER IS NO ! NO ! NO ! NO !

Mind you "I saw a number of games" completely failing in this sort of shit in .. various consoles .. yet someway they managed to get out ...
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Giles, dear heart, have a beer and relax ...
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Despite all the "vaffanculonism" I implemented all the UI changes .. now I have to test them ...
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Good luck, man. Fingers (and even toes) crossed...
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Hoping things go well. I can't wait to find out what this is, and hope it's on a platform I own.
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WiteWulf wrote:Hoping things go well. I can't wait to find out what this is, and hope it's on a platform I own.
This on all counts. Fingers crossed...
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Resubmitted .. "version 2" .. for certification .. again .. hopefully this time all ok ... fingers crossed !
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