News: Blizzard: 80% of effort for 20% of polish

By admin | Mar 11, 2010

News:
Blizzard: 80% of effort for 20% of polish

So that’s why they take so long.

Blizzard senior engineer Dominic Fillion revealed the extent of the developer’s perfectionism at GDC today. During a presentation on programming StarCraft II, he quipped that the vast majority of the developer’s effort goes into the final polishing stages of the game.

“They say that the last 20 per cent of your effort gets you 80 per cent of your game,” Fillion said, quoting the the common game development maxim.

“With us it seems to be the other way around. 80 per cent of our effort goes into the final 20 per cent of polish.”