Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

Tagged “hacks”

  1. TIL Morrowind would reboot the XBox if it ran out of memory and hide it behind a loading screen

    One of my favorite tricks for Morrowind is that if you are running out of memory [on Xbox], you can reboot the Xbox without the user knowing. So if you had a really long loading time, that was us rebooting the Xbox.

  2. TIL about 'chumps' in BioShock

    In Bioshock Infinite, they have 'chumps' without AI, without the ability to pathfind around - just bodies looping animations with a few flourishes like voice lines.

  3. TIL World of Warcraft had a Developer Island in production code

    This developer island was only for devs, and was used because some bugs couldn't be reproduced on dev servers

  4. TIL Some fun dirty coding tricks in video games (2009 edition)

    This classic gamasutra article from 2009 about some of the hacks developers did to get their game out of the door.

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