I'm not a game developer, and I'm positive many people aren't here either, but if anyone has some sort of experience with game design I have a question for you!
I just finished the last zone of the MSQ, and I was stunned to see how many assets were wasted after the zone changed in appearance. It went from a nicely detailed zone to just... nothing, black squares / electrope. The detail in colors and design were all gone. It shocked me to think that all of that work was for maybe 1-2hrs of gameplay and what it was replaced with looked like it could've taken them half the amount of time to develop.
I just thought, "wow.. what a massive waste." It's been bugging me so much. So, was this a huge waste or was that zone's design not as work intensive as I'm thinking?
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I just finished the last zone of the MSQ, and I was stunned to see how many assets were wasted after the zone changed in appearance. It went from a nicely detailed zone to just... nothing, black squares / electrope. The detail in colors and design were all gone. It shocked me to think that all of that work was for maybe 1-2hrs of gameplay and what it was replaced with looked like it could've taken them half the amount of time to develop.
I just thought, "wow.. what a massive waste." It's been bugging me so much. So, was this a huge waste or was that zone's design not as work intensive as I'm thinking?
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