[bentcorner]

> I'm in AAA gamedev and the codebase I deal with goes back 20+ years.

I'm curious what parts you work on (engine/tooling?). I've always had the impression that games usually have more throwaway code than other types of applications.

[justsid]

Until the OP mentioned Perforce, I was 100% sure they were a co-worker of mine. I also work on a 20+ year old project, mainly on the core graphics/game engine. It’s mainly used to power a single game franchise, although I’d say that any commits from more than 2 major versions ago aren’t all that useful anymore. Too many things keep changing especially around the area that I work on.

[Sharlin]

Well, the Unreal Engine is 22 years old. I doubt the current incarnation is free of legacy code.

[golergka]

The current version was developed from scratch.

[t-writescode]

Could easily be a sports game. That was my guess, then I remembered that the quake engine powered Half Life 1 forever. Could possibly also be working with the iD engine?