Quote:I just cranked up StarCraft and after about two minutes quit in disgust. Why? The piss poor interface, that's why. Specifically, to assign a unit to a number, you use Ctr+number, but to assign a location to F2-4 you use Shift+F#. Similarly, with a unit selected, you right click to give it a task or location. But if you click on "land", "scatter", "rally point", etc. then you have to LEFT click again.
Diablo and D2 have similar nonsense, but then again so do many other games.
Why????
Come on Pete, you know why.
Take a team of 6 programmers.
After defining the specs of the code, split the tasks into several sets (one guy working with unit grouping/group interaction and so, another one working on the map locations/camera focus/etc, and so on). Be very specific as how the code should be written.
Make double, triple sure the code you've written is bug free. Spend an ungodly amount of time doing this because in your last game the company got fried about the bugs.
Put the different pieces together in haste as you approach the overenthusiastic release date given by some higher-up self-proclaimed genius.
Realize only then that you didn't actually write down in the beginning of the project the simplest feature specifications (like what keys do that, what the general keyboard layout should be for everything, and then keep it as a standard through the whole development team).
Oops.
:)
Edit: one day later I see the terrible typo. Sorry about that Pete ^_^