Gear Up! - Reading Roman Voting
Today we read and discuss Roman Voting. This is a quick and fun way to get a feel for what the team is thinking of an idea, or the current project. Check out the video below for the reading!
The Loaf of Questionable Freshness
Summary - Some practices are meant to catch problems before they get too far. Don't make the mistake of having these practices humiliate or punish people. Assume they are human, didn't mean it and have some shared laughs. --- The practices collected in Gear Up! come from decades of experience, some painful, some that turned out fun in the long run. One such practice called “Lighten the Mood” came from the development of Midtown Madness in the late nineties at Angel Studios when we were struggling to keep the game from being continually broken. Often when a commit breaks a game, it's because someone ignored established testing practices. We didn’t have extensive build testing automation then. We had a dedicated PC, the “build monkey,” where any change committed had to be tested separately following every commit. Verifying the build on the build monkey could be a tedious task. Some people occasionally found excuses to skip it, sometimes to the detriment of the team. ...
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