Matthew "Queso" Niederberger

@Queso2469

Game programmer, designer, director; retired quadball player; antimeme; radical descriptivist; antilabel; Moose;

Working at Muse Games. Directed Embr, worked on Wildmender and Guns of Icarus, Making new secret stuffs

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posts from @Queso2469 tagged #okay but like do comment your code and make other people able to read enough of it to make changes or at least figure out which systems to throw out if literally anyone else is going to touch your code

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Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @Queso24699/1/2023, 1:01 AM

Heather "hthrflwrs" Flowers @hthrflwrs

d🔶@geometric9/1/2023, 12:19 AM

i honestly think an indie dev's programming ability should be just good enough to get the project out the door and no better

you should not be a 10x engineer or whatever, you should be focusing on the vision and ideas and emotions that make your project interesting and beautiful and touching. some of the greatest indie games of all time have absolutely nightmarish codebases because the creator was rightly focused on the player experience

#it can be helpful to learn to code smarter #but don't let it slow you down #keep rolling and use what you learned for the next game

Heather "hthrflwrs" Flowers @hthrflwrs9/1/2023, 12:43 AM

literally exactly this

#i spent an entire year trying to build a game engine #so i could have a more elegant codebase #and every extraneous hour i spent programming #is an hour i could have spent writing #or designing or marketing or producing or any of the many things that i am Better At

Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @Queso24699/1/2023, 1:01 AM

The only good code is code that delivers your intended experience

Code that is beautiful, code that is elegant, code that is efficient, code that follows standards, code that is well commented, code that is well organized, is all meaningless if it does not deliver the intended experience.

#indie dev #indiedev #gamedev #game dev #okay but like do comment your code and make other people able to read enough of it to make changes or at least figure out which systems to throw out if literally anyone else is going to touch your code #programming