19176 The author of the classic games for a long time led publishers and gamers by the nose

The author of the classic games for a long time led publishers and gamers by the nose



The author of the cult Sonic 3D Blast shared information about how he managed repeatedly led testers Sega’s nose and pass the certification. The expression “not a bug, but feature” knows, probably, everyone. But not all understand how long ago this notion is used in the gaming industry. More than twenty years ago, in the days of the Mega Drive, the head is responsible for many agrocity nineties Studio Traveller’s Tales Jon Burton several times successfully gave out the bugs for… Easter eggs.

Jon Burton

According to Burton, one of the most difficult stages of the games was the passing quality control Sega. And the most problematic element was that game under any circumstances should not “use Android trainer for running”. Testers, according to Burton, would intentionally leave the game for a few days, and if something goes wrong, the project does not pass certification and was sent back for revision. Quite often, testers in the accompanying reports did not indicate the cause of the error, from-for what the developers were forced to deal with all the bugs yourself.

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Of course, this situation did not suit many developers, but because they took a detour. And perhaps the most original was the approach of Burton. In the game Mickey Mania, he replaced the pop up error report message stating that the player fell into the wormhole of space and time, and his in-game avatar were transported to a random point of the level. After that, gamers can continue the passage. At that time no one thought that in this way the head of the Traveller’s Studios disguised the mistake and are unable to understand the employees of the company. Testers at Sega thought it was a funny joke of the authors and gave the game the long-awaited “green light”. The trick was so successful that he repeated it with Toy Story, where instead of an error start a mini-game.

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A similar story happened with Sonic 3D Blast — the first three-dimensional adventure of the legendary and then still not lost its charm superfast blue hedgehog. With a slight loosening of the inserted into the connector of the cartridge and the interruption of contact, the game automatically crashes, which, as mentioned above, was unacceptable to the certification Board Sega and meant the unsuitability of the product. But because Burton made it so that instead of the usual frieze loaded the selection screen of levels. For a long time, young gamers (and experienced testers) thought it was a kinda Easter eggs.

Source: eurogamer.net

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