We’re mainly cordoned off from different components of the sport for the sake of iteration velocity. It takes a non-trivial period of time to construct property and information for recreation ranges, particularly in AAA video games. If I’m engaged on a specific stage or dungeon, ready for my workstation to construct property and ranges for your entire recreation is a large waste of time. Why would I spend the a number of hours it might take to compile, mild, and construct shaders, pathing, lighting for all the opposite ranges I’m not engaged on? If I make a small change to the system I’m engaged on, ought to I’ve to attend and construct all the pieces else once more? I’m capable of work a lot extra shortly if I solely must construct the components of the sport I completely want, and never must construct the remainder.
I might go construct the remainder of the sport if I actually wished to, however I’ve little to no perception into the state of the remainder of the sport. The degrees could also be in a damaged or incomplete state. The UI could be in a damaged or incomplete state. Recreation system X, Y, or Z could be in a damaged or incomplete state. Development might require sure quest variables to be set, however I wouldn’t know as a result of it isn’t my a part of the sport that I’m engaged on. There’s actually no approach for any single particular person contributor (and even the leads) to essentially know the way all the pieces seems to be after we’re one in every of a group of tons of and we don’t have the bandwidth to share all the pieces with everybody. There’s merely an excessive amount of taking place without delay and an excessive amount of to know for anybody particular person to understand all of it on the common.
It’s because we’re all engaged on our personal duties and don’t actually have the time or capability to see or play with all the pieces. We actually can’t have every subteam go round explaining it – we’d spend approach an excessive amount of time doing that as a substitute of working. It’s really fairly commonplace for subteams to have little to no concept what different subteams are engaged on in any respect. We’ll usually have a “present and inform” a part of group conferences devoted to completely different sub groups displaying what they’ve been engaged on, as a result of the remainder of us actually don’t know. Typically I solely discover out what my coworkers have been doing due to articles within the gaming press!
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