Gügle Legend.
Game developers are notoriously bad at archiving. In fact, Kotaku wrote a whole piece about how some games are in danger of disappearing forever, partly because of just how bad game developers are at archiving. Nintendo loses code. Floppy disks decay and crumble. Long-lost prototypes lie in dusty drawers of filing cabinets sent to landfill. There are some things we will never be able to get back, barring random games getting unearthed in some attic 50 years from now.
But this lack of preservation and documentation doesn’t just affect consumers and historians. It often comes back to bite the devs in their disorganised bums, too. Tim Schafer, the designer behind Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Broken Age, and Grim Fandango, tweeted yesterday that he wanted to “thank fan sites and fan wikis everywhere” for both their support and their unwitting contribution to the development of games.
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