"Du udgiver et spil fyldt med bugs - hvad nu?" - Owlcats Alexey Drobyshevsky taler med os om udviklingsprocessen

På Devcom 2025 gav teknisk direktør Alexey Drobyshevsky fra Owlcat Games et dybdegående indblik i den udfordrende lancering af Pathfinder: Kingmaker, et spil, der oprindeligt udkom til PC, Xbox One og PS4 i en tilstand, han selv beskrev som "bogstaveligt talt uspillelig".

"We released to falling Steam reviews and were scrambling to fix it. For more than a month, we released a patch basically every other day," sagde Drobyshevsky. "The fix...was very simple. We added a message to the loading screen: 'First time loading, maybe very long, please wait.' People waited like 10 minutes and it loaded."

Drobyshevsky, der startede hos Owlcat Games som en af kun fire programmører, før han blev teknisk direktør, reflekterede også over udviklingen af sin rolle: "One of the things that was always great for me is being friends with people. I got into game development because I played tabletop RPGs with a guy who later went to work in games...Having friends really helps," sagde han og understregede vigtigheden af personlige forbindelser i branchen.

Med hensyn til spillernes opfattelse af fejl bemærkede Drobyshevsky, at ærlighed og proaktivitet har været afgørende for Owlcat Games: "We were always honest about [bugs] and proactive about fixing them...Some of the bugs can even become a meme, and that's marketing-wise interesting for the games as well," sagde han.

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