“So many bugs!”, PM says. “Here’s a bug list”, GD says. “Bugs. Bugs. Bugs”, says everyone. Every time I hear something like this I feel shocked and really confused. I run my build, check it out and find nothing in it. Everything works as it has to. I open the bug list that GM sent to me just to find out that it contains only a few real bugs and everything else is…

Anyway, let’s start with the definition of the “bug”. “Bug” means that there is a game error. The one which is accompanied by a red log is undoubtedly the bug: it causes a critical error. But not every bug can be the cause of this kind of error or even comes with a log. There is another kind of bugs which happen more often than the first ones. Here “bug” means that the game doesn’t work as the programmer expected.

Now let’s speak about the bug list. Here are some simple examples:

1) Damage the card deals depends on how much cards you hold in hand and "it doesn’t have to count itself". Is that a bug, when it's a pure lack of information at the time of its implementation? о_о

2) A card decreases 3 from effect timer N and “when you use this card it doesn’t trigger a passive effect which depends on activation of effect N”. Dude, it’s not meant to trigger. Decrease timer to 3 is not the same as activating it 3 times. О_о

3) Some mechanics work incorrectly. Wow. Hold on. When I was testing it, it worked perfectly right. And I tested it a few months ago. During this time no one asked me to fix it and SUDDENLY it becomes a bug? О_о

4) “Events should give not cards but recipes”. So, we are about to introduce such an entity as a"recipe" and implemented it as a reward for the fight and craft. Does it mean I had to redo the events? How is this related to the events? How months ago was I supposed to know that the reward for the events would become a recipe? But it is also added in a bug list as a “bug”... X_____x

To sum up, to make fewer bugs I need to delve not into the code but into esotericism. Start studying predictions, thought-reading, divination, which seems to be the basic set of skills necessary for every programmer who wants to hear less nasty words like “bug”. Gone to pray Cthulhu. Have a productive week. (с) me