Hard times

Justin_Case

Ok, question for the team, what was the hardest part and hardest time during the development of NS?

Fam

The manual. <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->

jparis

The hardest part: the manual. (Fam rocks&#33<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->

The hardest time: when I paused writing the manual, stood to get some water, and got a splinter so big you could have put notches on it and used it as a ruler. Rolling chairs + hardwood floor = mine field.

BathroomMonkey

The day Msr. Evil signed on.  It's been a living Hell since then.

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I think the hardest part has been getting the game to balance correctly (not that I had a whole lot to do with that, aside from playtesting).  There's so many factors involved-- like, 'That shotgun took down the level 1 too quickly'-- and then you have to consider what sort of weapon upgrades the marines have, what sort of personal upgrades the alien had, etc. . . and then watching the balance attempts ping pong back and forth until they landed just right.

Moleculor

The endless playtesting.

loofbote

lucky... how was playtesting hard  <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->  *cries* I would have threw a rock through my neighbors window to playtest  <!--emo&:(--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':('><!--endemo-->....