Denial: The First Stage Of Debugging

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When your budget is $0 and your team is just you staring at a computer for 18 hours a day, you tend to wear a lot of hats. Independent game developers don't have the luxury of specialized roles - they're the entire credits sequence rolled into one sleep-deprived human. "Producer, Director, Actor, Editor, Writer, Visual Effects, Creative" isn't a panel discussion - it's Tuesday. The rest of the week looks suspiciously similar, except with more coffee stains and increasingly concerning Google searches like "how to make game when no sleep for 72 hours" and "is it normal for code to appear in dreams."

Content Is five a lot? Depends on the context Minutes the checking Hours of debugging? No. documentation? Yes.

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Content How it feels like when you write the cleanest code the company has seen in recent days with minimal debugging

The circle of life in game development: get your degree, land that dream job making video games, work 80-hour weeks fixing collision detection bugs until your soul leaves your body, then finally find peace growing actual plants that don't have physics engines. It's the classic "touch grass" solution, except you're now literally responsible for the grass. Still better than dealing with that one producer who keeps saying "can we just make it more fun?"