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Originally Posted by Oblarg

A design challenge in which you don't know the parameters is a shitty design challenge. I guess you could construe it as indicative of actual work environments, but it's still doesn't make for particularly good game design. It doesn't help that it's far more of a burden for small teams than for large ones with lots of resources.

In what ways were design parameters of any part of this year's game not known? And I would love to show you teams that are small in many ways and yet still achieve just as much as larger teams do, but the list is far too large to put in a CD post.

Also, seeing as your rookie year was 2008, you havent been introduced to very large game components; even though you should remember the overpass from 2008. But even the year before you joined, 2007, had to be one of the worst game elements to make, the Spider. Our team had little resources back then to actually make one and yet if you didnt make one that year you pretty much could not make a working robot. Knowing what we had at our disposal, we constructed 1/4 of it and used it to the best of our abilities. You dont have to have a NASA facility to work at or the brightest GM mentors, all you have to do is use what resources you have to their peak efficiency.