So I learned that the Palword devs, Pocketpair Inc, are JP. Man look at that, they got tricked into adding Body Type A/B into the game :kekw:

Now, it's funny, because the gun additions are also justified with "Americans are doing this thing." But unlike Body Type A/B, it was a lucky choice, because it made the game absurd and hilarious for the better. Their market presence is amplified due to it. A thing done right, for the wrong reason.

ALSO HOLY SHIT the flash drives man lmao
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@Cayhr the flash drives thing is indeed hilarious. I have no idea how git works and I find it really annoying to deal with so every milestone I make on my game I'll zip up the project files and put them on 3 different flash drives and all the drives in my PC. The live version is synced to my Google Drive so if anything ever goes wrong I can grab files from there, or my laptop which is also synced to the drive.

Maybe a little jank, but it's MY jank.

@beardalaxy @Cayhr another interview claimed he used SVN or something. but then again the dev was running on low money so
@beardalaxy @Cayhr my plan when I do gamedev is to burn BDXL discs or similar and store that shit long term.

@Pawlicker @Cayhr yeah I'm gonna start burning CDs with stuff as soon as I actually get my drive working.

@beardalaxy @Cayhr i kinda wanna do that when I do PC98/DOS gamedev ngl as well, maybe a network share with LANMAN or Netware or something.

@Pawlicker @Cayhr I also just like the idea of having all these old physical versions of the game, like they did in ye olden days.

@Pawlicker @Cayhr if I could work on my game directly from a flash drive I would, but that corrupts stuff really fast. I used to be able to do that back in like 2010 but things have become more complex now it seems.

@beardalaxy Yeah, version control is a complicated tool and requires some learning on how to use it. That being said, I am quite spoiled on it. However, that doesn't mean version control is without any faults. It sits on your hardware, so additional hardware backups is completely valid.

For small studios, they get by in any way they can. I laugh at the flash drives because I think the idea of people carrying buckets of flash drives like some Vietnamese rice farmer is quite hilarious out of context, but also... at least SOME of it should be version controlled, right? There's a balance you can strike, especially since version controlling is a free utility.
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