EA Sports Madden 17 Dev Tweets

[mrprice33]

Quote: Originally Posted by SolidSquid

Not what I meant. Obviously the devs had to choose as time and resources are limited. I'm saying one is not more important than the other at least in my eyes.

You're right, in an ideal world we have both sets of tools available to us. Unfortunately, nothing in software development is ideal.

Example: a couple of years ago when 2K hired Scott O Gallagher they implemented authentic defenses into 2K15 the way they were in Live 14. Except, the defenses were not actually assigned to their correct teams and coaches. I talked to OG about this and he straight told me they had to choose between putting it in year over year and getting it in all at once after 2 years. They had to decide how to implement it and chose incremental progress. These types of decisions are made all the time in software dev, especially for these yearly games.

[SolidSquid]

Quote: Originally Posted by mrprice33

You're right, in an ideal world we have both sets of tools available to us. Unfortunately, nothing in software development is ideal. Example: a couple of years ago when 2K hired Scott O Gallagher they implemented authentic defenses into 2K15 the way they were in Live 14. Except, the defenses were not actually assigned to their correct teams and coaches. I talked to OG about this and he straight told me they had to choose between putting it in year over year and getting it in all at once after 2 years. They had to decide how to implement it and chose incremental progress. These types of decisions are made all the time in software dev, especially for these yearly games.

And this is all I'm asking for. Don't just put in pattern matching and say ok you don't need assignments now bc we have pattern matching bc that's just not true. It's fine that they only had time for one as long as in the future they plan on adding the other.

[PhillyPhanatic14]

This thread is sick. Awesome that the devs respond to both the things that are in the game and the things they didn't get to.

[jpdavis82]

10+ page blog on zones coming


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[Cowboy008]

Quote: Originally Posted by jpdavis82

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I don't know... Wasn't Clint's blog supposed to be 8 pages? and we didn't get 8 pages.

[jpdavis82]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cowboy008

I don't know... Wasn't Clint's blog supposed to be 8 pages? and we didn't get 8 pages.

8 pages not 8 blogs, if you try to print it out, it says it is 17 pages.

[PVarck31]

Sucks about the weather. But with everything else they are getting into the game this year I can overlook that.

[dougdeuce]

Quote: Originally Posted by PVarck31

Sucks about the weather. But with everything else they are getting into the game this year I can overlook that.

Yeah, I feel the same. There's a lot already, and hopefully franchise knocks our socks off, but dynamic weather would really change the game's feel.

It would be great if they had someone dedicated to atmosphere, but iirc Looman once said there are a bunch of things like that in the game that are essentially a programmers "pet project" that they try to get to, not something that's necessarily their job.