Law of projects taking a long time Tweet added by Ben Porter @eigenbom

Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

Law of projects taking a long time

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Jan Willem Nijman

@jwaaaap

5 years

@eigenbom Plan your games to be shippable at 60%!

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

@jwaaaap 👍

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Nopy

@qristofer

5 years

@eigenbom 1. - pow( .5, year )

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

@qristofer Σ½^n

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Robin QueenOfMissiles

@DarkGuardsman

5 years

@eigenbom wow 50% in the first year, must be a productive project

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

5 years

@DarkGuardsman The first year is pure speedforce.

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Pak

@muratpak

5 years

@eigenbom

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@muratpak

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99% of perfection is between 99% and 100%

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Brookes Eggleston

@BagelDenizen

5 years

@eigenbom A very personal attack

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jitspoe

@jitspoe

5 years

@eigenbom lol, I drew almost this exact graph last night on my stream. Game development is like an asymptote graph -- you're never really "done".

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Joe Williamson

@JoeCreates

5 years

@eigenbom The trick is to just make 10 games that are each 10% done, mash them all together and ship it as one within a single year.

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ben🐌kerslake

@benjkers

5 years

@eigenbom terrifying, hurtful and completely reassuring

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BenStar | Benjamin Kiefer 💗💛💙

@BenstarDEV

5 years

@eigenbom oh no.

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Paul Emil Levasseur

@EmilLevasseur

5 years

@eigenbom Yep.

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Ben Porter

@eigenbom

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@lorancou Lol

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Erik Schulz

@gradbot

5 years

@eigenbom This is all software. At some point you choose to ship. Every feature you add makes the next quality milestone geometrically farther away.

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Yokai Mask

@YokaiMask

5 years

@eigenbom Trully true. I'm in the 6th step right now.

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Brian Rivas

@greymerk

5 years

@eigenbom Zeno's paradox and the almost finished project.

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agdtinman.bsky.social

@agdtinman

5 years

@eigenbom @_Tocom_ What does this mean for projects that release multiple times a year?

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Shadi Muklashy

@shadiradio

5 years

@eigenbom I cannot believe how accurate this is. It's a snapshot of the last 5 years of my life. :|

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