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by hcles 5599 days ago
Do you know which developer in UW2 was responsible for the Servant Strike bug? That glitch wasted 6 weeks of my life! I recently started playing UW2 again through Dosbox, using a character editor written in 1994 to change save files is humbling.

I would read a book or 10 full of these old-school game developing anecdotes.

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I do, but he's paid me to keep quiet... Truthfully, he was pretty upset about having caused it at the time.

The worst thing was that you triggered the bug at the beginning of the game, but didn't discover that it had made the game unwinnable until the end.

These were posted here recently (in case you missed them): http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...