Séamus Ó Buadhacháin
Failbetter Games
Séamus is a senior programmer at Failbetter Games. He was lead programmer on 2023’s Mask of the Rose and is now working on their next project, Mandrake.
Séamus Ó Buadhacháin is speaking at the following session/s
Stealing from AAA for Fun and Profit: Lessons in Code Quality
Scaling a project from prototype to production is a time when a lot of technical debt comes due, as the small team at Failbetter Games working on our upcoming game, Mandrake, found when entering production. This is a talk about how (and why) we decided to tackle this problem head-on with a focus on code quality and architecture, the challenges we faced, and the benefits that came back to us as a result.
Session Takeaway
- Where the cheap wins are when adopting a focus on code quality.
- Tips on moving from prototype code to production code.
- The cost/benefit tradeoff of doing all this at indie scale.
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