Team Update 5

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Originally Posted by MikeDubreuil

With that said, I do believe the GDC reserves the right to change the game at any time. We could have a new game piece in the next team update

Ah!. I missed that. (It's not in the spec - it's in the contract - I knew we needed a lawyer on the team). Now we have a good engineering lesson. Look for the fine print. When the customer has some fine print that says something like "the government reserves the right at any time to change the specifications ....." beware. You may have to anticipate such changes and their possible consequences (and build that possibility into your price ).

Fortunately, we had a Plan B contingency for the case where the idea didn't work. The idea worked but the specs have changed so Plan B will now come in handy.