23 eyelid bugs? How video games are made

April 26th, 2012

A smattering of internal memos by Bioware during the development of Mass Effect were made public recently, shedding insight into all the crazy things game developers have to consider when making a game.

But not only are the office quotes insightful, they're ironic, comical, and even a bit sad. For example:

• "Wow. There are 23 bugs about eyelids."
• “How does any writing come out of this buffoon factory?” (Editor's note: Need I remind you that Mass Effect 3 was particularly criticized for its story?)
• "Penny Arcade is railing against insipid RPG dialogue today." Reply: "But insipid is what I do best!"
• “Is your X-Box on fire? No? Build passed!”
• “If we could give people a magic hat that would create for them the exact RPG experience they’d always dreamed of, they’d complain about the color of the hat.”
• "Remember, we make fun, we don't have fun."
• "Everyone ready to hear the memory budget?" Reply: "Did you bring lube?"
• “My youngest – he only sees me in the morning before I leave. So he now thinks ‘da-da’ means ‘bye.’ He’ll wave to people leaving and say, ‘Da-da!’”

What's more, I love how the pictured image takes nothing for granted. Unless you tell a computer not to drink from its nose, it may just do it. 

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