In this article from the final issue (June/July) of Game Developer magazine, game developers share their hacks, tricks, and war stories about getting the game out the door however they had to. (The complete issue is available as a free download here.)
The article is being highlighted as one of Gamasutra's best stories of 2013.
Joe Valenzuela, Insomniac Games
This trick was on the PS3: We on the Insomniac engine team had some textures that we wanted distributed with our engine/tools release. These
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