Drakensang - The Dark Eye - Dev Diary #4 @ Drakensang.info

What does a coder actually do as a games developer? This is exactly what I’d like to tell you, on the basis of the development of the overview map. As the Lead Programmer, this task was very tricky for me, which is why I decided to write my first article for the dev diary about the map.

Recently the little son of our secretary Borislava visited us. After she guided him through several departments at Radon Labs, they finally came in the coder’s room.

„What do these guys do?“ – “They get paid for playing games.”

Indeed, it’s quite difficult to briefly explain what a coder does in the development of a computer game. Maybe an example will help to make it understandable. The first version of the game design document on the creation of the overview map contained the following [...]