translation of crash!
<i>At the moment Shrimpo is at his buddies with Larian studies to help them with finoshing BD, this is his diary of what happens behind the screen with the creators of DivDiv while they lay the last foundations to their new game!
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What is my job exactly with Larian studios? Well officialy i'm the QA Manger, which is an exaggerated name for : Quality Control. It comes down to the fact that I have to make sure that the game is fun to play, nothing more, nothing less. The story of BD plays out in 4 big acts, and yesterday i left act 3 behind me and thus i made my first few steps into act4. This means that ACT3 in it's current state is 'playable' and fun if i'm done with it and that therefore testers can be start with it. For a few weeks we have had 3 or 4 testers a day here and the testers today where the fist victims to test out act3
The first few tesdays on a "fresh" act are always chaotic and today wasn't and exception; there was one tester hoe had alot of crashes during the loading of savegames. No problem, i gave those savegames to our L33T bugsquasher; Krist Taeleman. This 23 year old codemonkey from Ternat usualy manages to kill the most persistant bugs without alot of trouble but today he suffered...*grin*...the 'crashing savegames' worked perfectly on his computer en no matter what he tried the crashing tester kept on crashing. After countles tries and hours later poor Kris was getting desperate and he proposed an Uber Fix : "That tester has bad karma, get him out of the testroom pls!
Below is a foto of a pretty emotional Kris <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
