Reflections on my time at Electronic Arts and techniques used to improve iteration times in video game development

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FIFA intern writes about the importance of time to iterate in game development. The goal of this post is to help remind you to reflect on your current development process. Is there some piece of your pipeline taking longer than it needs to? Would unit testing bring benefits, but you keep avoiding it because you think there’s a big upfront cost to it?

3 Lines of Code Shouldn't Take All Day

“This is the sweet spot amount of time where you become tempted to “do something else” while you wait.”
EVERY
SINGLE
DAY

“it takes too darn long to test these changes, is there a better way?”
More such questions :)

This is something that we should be seeing more in game development. The amount of time you put into testing your code is such a valuable thing to invest in. It will be worth your time, it will be helpful and it will help you understand the system better.