While it is true that well thought-out code is ultimately superior to rushed iterative code, in this day and age its very rare for a human to have enough time to perform this. Time and life is limited and only a released product has any validity to be sold, where as an idea or a design cannot.

In our current world where you gotta pay bills and worry about a thousand other things besides the design of a project, its extremely hard to make a good code or design without running the risk of leaving yourself in a position where you have no money to pay bills as ideas cannot be sold.

Apart from that, it is heavily advised that one should only pursue making good code/design if his vision of the project is clear enough.

In MM’s case, he didn’t know clearly enough what he wanted to do (or what he could do). Thus “fast code” approach allowed him to prototype concepts and figure out the full vision, to the extent that he’s cleared to re-write the engine quite freely, because now he knows what works and how to set it up.

In short, if vision of a project is unclear or unknown, MM’s developing method is an excellent choice for the matter. Otherwise, a traditional development method is adviced.

Take Arms

Dalmar: Hello! I’ll check!

shurcooL: gonna read that now.

I’ve made a blog post on how to make a smooth networking game. I hope you check it out.

http://goo.gl/w3j2y

I am from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and I study games in the unnivertsity PUC-MINAS, and I am in the course that focus in creating games. I want a work that make me “grow-up” in games, I love games since I was a child and know that games is a big thing in the word nowadays, and I want to work with this, please give me a chance, I can use the software Blender to make 3D-models and I can programming in UNIY3D, a engine. I programming in C++ and Open GL

THANKS,

Dalmar.

What I have?:

http://dalmarjogos.wordpress.com/

I know this from nearly 20 years (?!) of coding experience. Of course, you must take into account that I am probably not the most intelligent person and don’t have the necessary genetic make-up / talent to ever be a super coder. Super coders that write super code and deliver it probably exist somewhere on the planet. Do you honestly think you are one of them?

I will refer once again to John Carmack, no doubt you think of him as a super coder. However if you listened to the presentation I posted in the last blog you’ll learn how Carmack programmed Doom -> fast.