Always recycle your bottles

If Twitter does die, I will miss it.

Amidst the wailing lie certain gems, likethis threadof developers sharing confessions and cheeky tricks from across their careers.

I’ve picked out some of my favourites - come and revel in them with me.

Diablo concept art I’m using to illustrate the concept of sin because I couldn’t pull a good image from the thread

First off, here’s that bottle: a galaxy brain play courtesy ofValheimVFX Artist Andi Jorgensen.

(Players confidently reporting their winning strategies reminds me of that fun studyabout superstitious pigeons).

Shaun Finney contributed another ingenious way of dodging time constraints, sadly not usable in this era.

Wallace & Gromit was an early XBLA game and was required to launch from memory cards.

There was a crash bug when launching off 256mb cards, but not 512mb cards.

So we just added a 20mb sound file to the game, making it too big for 256mb cards.

Props to Danny Sweeney for kicking off the fun, though.

Perusethe threadfor yourself, if you fancy.