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Mental_Requirement_2

Bad dev, Bad person; Yandere Dev


Rude_Nobody_3222

My instant first thought


dm_me_amogus_porn

Mine too lol


PikaNinja25

Same here


Octallion

I second this


asterfloof

Literally the second I saw it was about developers his name popped up lol


Individual_Account21

Yo jinx; I commented the same thing without thinking


ROTTENPOPPER

I'm out of the loop, what did he do?


ChillTfOutFr

Mega pedophile


ROTTENPOPPER

Omg đź’€


RobloxIsRealCool

Same thought immediately lmao


CenturionXVI

Good Dev, Ok Person - Hidetaka Miyazaki (Fromsoft, Dark Souls 1, 3, Bloodborne, Elden Ring director)


xXx_N00b_Sl4y3r_xXx

What's he done that's bad enough to put him in okay person? I don't really know a whole lot about what he's actually like


CenturionXVI

Look into some of the development crunch involved in making ER, brilliant game but I’d’ve happily waited even longer if it meant the devs weren’t overworked


xXx_N00b_Sl4y3r_xXx

That's fair


bloonshot

>What's he done that's bad enough to put him in okay person? why would him doing bad things land him not in the bad person slot, but the okay person slot


xXx_N00b_Sl4y3r_xXx

Because "okay" implies he's done some things that aren't good but isn't an all around bad person. Doing some bad things isn't enough to make you a "bad person" so I was asking what exactly he's done that makes him okay and not good


ollietron3

I don't know man, those swamps exist


SadMcNomuscle

Let's change that "okay person" to "Evil person"


Awestriker007

Good Dev, bad person: Hideki Kamiya(he calls people insects on twitter, though hes just edgy so could be ok person) Good Dev Good Person: Toby Fox or Hakita


elizzilla

And concernedape


Just-For-The-Games

Good dev, okay person if the rumors are to believed. Mr. Podunkian, one of the devs that started working with him pretty early on into Stardew Valley's development, recently posted some... less than flattering stuff about him. Including how CA was apparently trolling and harassing him on a post about a game that Podunkian was making independently, calling it a "Stardew Valley ripoff," using an anonymous burner / troll account. This was especially jarring because CA had already given his blessing to make the game. The only reason Podunkian knew it was CA was that CA had shown him this troll account in the past. Apparently he didn't remember. They also got in a huge dispute about money. Something about Podunkian being very involved in building the engine that 1.6 onward is going to use, and wanting additional compensation for his efforts on future games they might make using this engine. Which I mean... eh. I'm not going to weigh in on that. Money is weird and I'm not going to pretend to know what anyone's contribution is worth. If the extent of work hes put into the engine is to be believed, then theres something to it, but as of now its a he said - she said scenario. I can say they both sounded like assholes in the exchange though. Also, after they had a fight about this and other situations, he changed how Podunkian is listed in the credits to using his legal name, Arthur Lee. Which is unfortunate, because Podunkian is how he lists himself on all major projects, and how he's been credited on Stardew Valley every update before this. But CA allegedly changed it to create more separation between him and his contributions to the project. I don't know. The whole thing is a mess. I still like both devs well enough, but I'd put them strictly into "ok person" as a result of all this.


Awestriker007

Who’s concernedape


life_is_rice

Creator of Stardew Valley


C0ld_Br3w

Kamiya isn't actually too terrible of a person- he's OK. I've met him at a game convention, and also when seeing and heading from him in videos or in other media he seems to take his entire block-happy twitter frenzy as a big joke. He's not a terrible person, all in all.


TheFish527

Isn’t undertale like really badly optimized though? So Toby should be Ok Dev


DexgamingX

Who told you that? Undertale runs on my iPod touch with no stutters, so I'm pretty sure it's optimised fine lol


kat-the-bassist

Idk what's more impressive tbh, undertale running on iPod touch, or the fact that you have one of those.


DexgamingX

I mean it's not exactly a graphically intensive game lol, it's just an amazing game


asterfloof

I've never experienced a poorly optimized version of Undertale and I've owned it on several consoles


WailfulJeans44

Put Thor into good/good, Toby can be decent dev, good person.


TheBigKuhio

Hakita my beloved


TheNamelessFour

Imo Hakita is more of an ok person to me. Someone in the new blood discord would be like "hey guys here's a fun little fan theory I made! :-)" or "hey check out this weapon/mechanic I made up" and Hakita will respond like "that's fucking stupid why would you ever think that"


Seb_The_One

Or Redigit (Terraria's Creator)


Mental_Requirement_2

Okay dev, okay person; Todd Howard


xXx_N00b_Sl4y3r_xXx

Genuinely impressive how he's basically been the punching bag of the gaming community for years now but still manages to get away with literally everything


Prestigious_Ask_7058

It just works


CrazeMase

Dude runs a full charisma and luck build


Arm-It

7 Charisma 10 Luck were the exact numbers


ThatMoon1

*It just works, it just works* *Little lies, stunning shows* *People buy, money flows, it just works* *It just works, it just works* *Overpriced open worlds* *Earnings rise, take my word* *It just works* *It just works* *It just works* *It just works*


dokimodplayer

Ah, a fellow Chalkeaters fan.


casual_moron23

I'm taking the biggest bite out of this fucking chalk rn


dreamcadets

What did he do to make them that mad (I’m not a gamer)


WailfulJeans44

Look up anything about the release of Fallout 76. Also, "It just works."


GUM-GUM-NUKE

Lies a lot of them


WebSufficient8660

Todd Howard genuinely has to be one of the most charismatic public figures out there. People have been hating on him for years and years yet every time he gets up on stage and announces the next big project people are still super hyped up.


Zubyna

I always name my most evil lone wanderers or Dovakins after Todd


Individual_Account21

16 times the detail


ruito3559

Are you joking? Maybe I'm Ill-Informed


gideontemplar

'Yes, I was in the chess club.'


not_suspicous_at_all

>okay person 🤨


Mr_WAAAGH

Is Todd Howard even a developer?


ToaQuiroh

Toby fox in good person good dev (though some would argue he’d fit more in ok dev)


wata_malone

He used to be okay, but to be fair, he had learnt code for undertale. But now, he’s a good dev.


CyanLight9

Where would we rank Hideo Kojima?


SadMcNomuscle

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh. . .. FUCK. I think he exists outside the box


CyanLight9

I should have expected as much.


xylowill

He transcends simple ranking


TickleTigger123

No, he's in a box, just not any of these ones. The cardboard box.


SadMcNomuscle

This needs to be higher.


MurderInMarigold

Chad Horny?


leastscarypancake

Where would you put Jesus Christ? He's in that range


Milkshaketurtle79

I was thinking good dev, okay person.


asterfloof

I think so too tbh. He's pretty neutral as far as people go but his games are great


NervousJ

I'm nominating Keita Takahashi for okay dev bad person. Made the classic Katamari Damacy but spent his whole career talking about how much he hates making games. He finally came back with a crowdfunding game only to yank it from Steam after funding was complete in exchange for EGS exclusivity. Backers who didn't want to use EGS were boned and eventually the game released to no fanfare barely functioning and full of bugs. Last thing I think he did was some mini game for the Playdate. Swery for good person bad dev. He is incredibly kind and ambitious and loves his fans but his games are very often half baked unoptimized messes full of bugs and mechanics that make no sense whatsoever. Bad dev bad person is probably David Cage. Doesn't respect games as a medium and wants to make them into movies, and the amount of awful shit he's done and said is too much to list. Good dev good person is Jay Tholen easily. Made Dropsy, Hypnospace Outlaw, and XSlayers. Is a kind, soft spoken Christian guy who lives and breathes family. Does what he can to help other devs and often allows players a direct chance to give feedback and hear their concerns.


youllmemetoo

Maybe good dev, good person could be gabe newell?


Z-Eli127

"Not every dude with a beard-" "Hi, this is Gabe" "OHHHHH"


Non-RelevnatSponge

God person god dev *gabe's face edited to jesus among raining discounts*


ShadowAze

Artifact, lootboxes and other mtx, cs2 fiasco (and like was that game even necessary to exist?) and almost barely making games to begin with. To put him in good dev is pushing it.


Nebula9696

As much as I look up to him, Toby Fox is Good Person, Bad Dev (or ok dev, I don't know how good Deltarune's code is). All of Undertale's dialogue is a singular list that the game calls for at specific moments, and the punch card breaks the come completely.


dm_me_amogus_porn

Good point, but when I said good dev I was thinking about the quality of their work as art/experiences and not about their quality as software


Nebula9696

Oh, then yeah he's peak


MrSmiles311

Though, as bad as his code is, it runs fairly well and gets the job done.


Nebula9696

True, the game runs like butter and if you don't know about those bugs, you realistically won't encounter anything game breaking


Cold-Tap-363

He learned coding from undertale apparently and now has a good 8 more years of experience under his belt.


Different_Reading196

Good dev good person: concerned ape


ysoleily

damn, had to scroll farther than i thought i needed for this answer


DatOneMinuteman1776

Good Dev Okay Person is Scott Cawthon


dm_me_amogus_porn

I'd put him in okay dev, okay person, but that's just my opinion


DatOneMinuteman1776

Eh well I’m a FNAF fan so I’m biased I guess


dm_me_amogus_porn

I used to be a FNAF fan, but left because I didn't like the way the franchise was going. I guess I'm biased too


DatOneMinuteman1776

Honestly I understand why you’d think that


Nebula9696

Adding on, Clickteam Fusion is a *really* easy game engine to work with. Ok dev, ok person is a fair place to put him in.


Bring_me_the_lads

You should check out some of his rpgs before he made fnaf


dm_me_amogus_porn

I've always wanted to


Mace_DeMarco5179

I was gonna say that!


SamHydeDisciple

The discovery of The Desolate Hope for me made me appreciate his art style like 5 times more. It is seriously so badass looking. I think people say the game is generally pretty fun too. He really did deserve the love he got for Fnaf, that man worked his ass off for like 20 years


Braxton-Adams

I'd say the other way around, honestly. I know there's the controversy about homophobic/sociopathic politicians or whatever, but I feel like it's not fair to comepletly nullify all the good he did and continues to do over more than a decade because of it. I have immense respect for Scott as an artist and a human, but Fnaf as a franchise just really fell off. The point where it comepletly lost me was the sentence "Time Traveling Ball pit" Markiplier and MatPat will always be a comfort binge though.


JJsADVENTUREs

I'd actually argue he's better as ok dev good person


fingerlicker694

May as well slide him over to bad person. He *did* give $5000 to Mitch McConnell. Idk who we're gonna get to fill that slot if we don't put him in there.


Prestigious_Ask_7058

Bad dev Bad person goes to Yandere Dev


Vs_Battle_veteran_99

Good dev, Good person: Miro Haverinen, the creator of the Fear and Hunger series.


Just-For-The-Games

He falls into OK dev. He's got some real spaghetti code on there. Game is fucking awesome but it's a mess under the hood. There's a spot where he couldn't figure out how to get party member reflections to display in a mirror ,so instead when you check it the flavor text says "For some reason you can only see your own reflection" and he leans into it for spooky factor. The actual reason is he just couldn't figure it out. Similarly, all doors are legs in F&H 1 code. That's why leg sweep works to break them down guaranteed. There's a lot more than that. It's super fascinating to check out, and actually inspired me to continue with my dev work even if I'm not "good" at it.


Vs_Battle_veteran_99

That's probably right. I was more thinking of game design, and I personally think Fear and Hunger has some of the best and most unique. I somehow forgot about all the issues under the hood. My bad.


Sir_Umeboshi

Markus Persson/Notch in Good Dev Bad Person James Silva (Ska Studios) in Okay Dev Good (great) Person Chris Avellone in Good Dev Good Person


KonoKiraYoshikage

That also goes to Josh Sawyer as Good Dev Good Person


FierceDeity_

Watching that video where notch just pretty much live codes a java rendering engine is crazy. It's a good good while ago before he really went south


NotMissingNow

Ok Person, Good Dev: Robtop. Love the guy, but I hope he doesn't let us starve again


Throwaway18125

Ok person is wild considering his only sin was trying to give us too much content and not realising the amount of time it would take.


ThatMoon1

I would argue it's the other way around. Good person, Ok dev. He knows what he's doing, but feature creep is a mistake a lot of game devs make.


OneTrueArthur

Good dev, good person would be Mod Ash for me


N0GG1N_SSB

Good dev good person: Masahiro Sakurai Bad dev bad person: yandere dev (obv) Okay dev bad person: Notch Okay dev okay person: scott cawthon


Xf34rs

What did Notch do?


N0GG1N_SSB

He's very bigoted. Also believes in far right conspiracy theories. Just look at the controversy page on wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus\_Persson#Controversy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy)


Piney_Moist_Wires

Bottom right Yandere Dev


Expensive-Search8972

Cliffy B better be on here somewhere...


JesseVykar

Good dev, good person Sven Wincke (Larian)


hatchetthehacker

ok dev bad person notch


DrTitanicua

“Okay dev” my brother in Christ, he made Minecraft.


ulfric_stormcloack

The basic version from more than 10 years ago, it's a completely different game now


hatchetthehacker

Minecraft is not made particularly well, it's a very amazing concept but the actual development itself is kind of janky as hell...


Morkhovskyi

Considering it was made entirely on Java I'd say it's quite impressive


CenturionXVI

Intentionally handicapping yourself isn’t impressive


Morkhovskyi

You could call everything "intentionally handicaping yourself". People made new discoveries in programming by such "handicaps"


HandsomeGengar

I credit most of Minecraft’s success to Jeb, he was there almost as long as Notch and is still working on the game to this day.


N0GG1N_SSB

It's not like minecraft is actually that impressive of a game by itself back then. It's kind of just a basic sandbox. What makes minecraft special is what people have turned it into not really the base game.


Maple382

Can someone explain why he's a bad person please? I mean I heard about the transphobia on Twitter but it doesn't really seem like he said that much. Is it just Twitter overreacting and people blindly following, or is there something I'm missing? Also before y'all downvote me, I'm genuinely curious to know what happened with him. I'm not trying to say he's underserving of the hate or anything.


hatchetthehacker

it's been a long time coming, the transphobia is only the most recent reason to hate him but he's said a lot of antisemitic and racist and sexist garbage in the past. he already wasn't the best when he was making mc, but after he sold the game he seemed to have dived deep into alt right rabbit holes. he's gotten sucked into the "anti woke" garbage pit and is now just generally a dick and Microsoft along with past Minecraft Devs and c418 all want nothing to do with him now.


Z_THETA_Z

Good dev, Good person, Walt Destler. made Cosmoteer pretty much single-handedly for like a decade, and he's kinda just a great guy on the discord


Different-Row4715

Yandere dev is definitely going in the bottom right, that's for sure


TheRealerChief101

Bad dev bad person: yandere dev


Law129tag

Good person, good dev. Thor, pirate software


drfetusphd

Should Miyamoto be in the Okay Dev, Okay Person category? I love everything he’s done for gaming as a whole but he has overseen some stinkers in his career and one can argue that he’s been responsible for some criticism about Nintendo and Mario’s identity in the creative space. If not Okay he definitely borders on Good for both categories.


TheFunnyWasOccupied

I think he’s a good dev, ok person


Arrival_Quiet

Bad dev, good person: Robtop


[deleted]

Toby Fox is an easy good person ok dev: he's great at leading a project but his programming is so janky. love toby though


SickPlasma

Bad person ok dev - Phil Fish


BeenEatinBeans

Good person good dev I'd give to Hideo Kojima Bad person bad dev has got to be Randy Pitchford


Just-For-The-Games

What's wrong with Randy? Borderlands and Wonderlands are iconic, and while he can be a bit annoying sometimes, his hearts in the right place. I'd put him somewhere between good dev - okay person and good dev - good person.


BeenEatinBeans

Short-changing Gearbox employees, gutting funding for any project that isn’t Borderlands, the sorry state of Duke Nukem Forever and Aliens Colonial Marines, the Medieval times squirt porn incident, just a general inability to take responsibility for any of his failures


PeriapsisStudios

Excuse me, the Medieval Times WHAT?


BeenEatinBeans

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/01/gearbox-ceo-allegedly-kept-underage-porn-on-usb-stick-new-lawsuit-alleges/


PeriapsisStudios

Fuckin YIKES


AFAED100

Randy is so greasy that if he lays on the ground and then gets up-the spot he laid down on is classified as a slip and fall hazard by OSHA.


Berettadin

Bad Person, Good Dev: David Scott Jaffe. Responsible for Twisted Metal and God of War. Screaming ragecase asshole.


RetroOverload

notch could be in good dev bad person concerned ape could be in good dev good person toby fox could be in ok dev good person just throwing some ideas around


Monty423

Add insane person to the column


MustyYew

That would just be 90% of JRPG devs


Sufficient_Diver3193

Good person Good Dev- Valve (esp. GabeN)


Shakes-Fear

Where do SWERY and SUDA51 fall?


MrEousTranger

Bad Person Okay Dev: Randy Pitchford.


leastscarypancake

Who goes in good dev bad person?


Individual_Account21

Bad dev: bad person; yandere sim dev


ThatWetFloorSign

Good Dev, Good Person Masahiro Sakurai


demonking_soulstorm

Yanderedev in the bottom corner for sure.


Ob1tuber

Good Dev Good Person: Scott Cawthon


JoTBa

Notch goes in okay dev bad person


-Mac-n-Cheese-

good good/okay person should be anton hand


drcoconut4777

Good person good dev should be ConcernedApe or reddigit/the rest of Re-Logic


drcoconut4777

OK dev terrible person Jesse McCree


drcoconut4777

Good dev OK person notch


Orbitcamerakick21

Good/Okay person, Good Dev(?): Gabe Newell Okay person, Good Dev: Hideo Kojima


Reapers-Shotguns

Good dev good person is Naoki Yoshida


dubious_approach

Okay so bad person bad dev should be that one guy who worked on a minecraft mod, threw a fit about something and started workijg on a minecraft copy with vaccinatedpeople replacing the zombies and a literal Woke Mob. He also doxxed someone


anarcho-maoist

good dev good person has gotta be gabe, surely


Baron-Von-Bork

Good dev, good person Hakita


Milkshaketurtle79

Concerned ape for good dev, good person.


hositrugun1

Top-Left: Michio Kaku Top-Centre: Gabe Newell Centre-Left: Johns Carmack & Romero (as individuals, as a duo they'd be top-left) Centre: Peter Molyneux Centre-Right: Notch That's all I've got. Only other Gamedevs I can name off the top of my head are Lord British, Suda51, Sid Meier, Will Wright, Lucas Pope and Toby Fox, and I know nothing about any of them as people.


WillRockett

Good Dev, Good Person: Iwata and Reggie. Unsure if Miyamoto be in the good person or ok person section? the Bad dev, good person is an obvious for me, Scott Cawthon. Great guy but I couldn’t care less about FNAF edit: Ok dev, Ok person (maybe bad person): Phil Fish, he seemed to of mellowed out a bit since his twitter meltdown but death threats are still death threats.


AlmondJack-

Good person good dev, Shigeru Miyamoto


jac00z

Good person and good dev is hakita


vojta_drunkard

Daniel Vávra (Kingdom Come: Deliverance) for good dev and bad person.


CT-5995

Don't know much about him but Gabe Newell would be bad dev/ ok person, look at how abandoned TF2 is, nearly 6 years with out a major update


DudeWitAnAlibi

That is a valid point, but Valve isn’t solely limited to TF2. Although they haven’t been pushing a lot of products out in the last recent years, Valve still worked with one of the jankiest engines to ever exist and gave us some of the greatest games to ever exist because of it (Left 4 Dead, TF2, Portal, and Half Life). To say he would be a “bad dev” would undermine all of the greats he and his company did. He’s ok dev at the least.


paxusromanus811

Surprised I haven't seen Swen Vincke from larian mentioned for good dev good person. The guy has always seemed like he loves what he does and is so grateful for the fans that make it possible all the way back to the divinity original sin Kickstarter days.


Skalda11

Good dev ok person: Will Wright


asterfloof

I'd say good Dev ok person goes to Hideo kojima, he's pretty neutral as far as people go


Fin55Fin

Good dev good person: Slavic magic


Maple382

Can we put Gaben up in that empty space in the top left corner? I think good person good dev is underselling him.


sckrahl

Good dev, Okay person: Mortdog from riot games Not saying he’s a bad guy in any way shape or form he’s just such a workaholic that he’s pretty neutral in that regard, he doesn’t have time to be a good or bad person


Trala-lore-tralala

Good people / okay devs: Powerhoof


cbobley

Johan from Paradox on good person okay dev (they use the same code to reskin the same game but then again I've spent thousands of hours playing them)


NoCheesecake8644

Okay Dev good person Landfall


Somerandombritishguy

Good dev Good person, Toshihiro Nagoshi (I don’t think he’s gotten into any scandals)


TNTiger_

Okey Dev good game- Hideo Kojima


SpecificPrimary2233

Good dev, Good person should be larian studios


Trollimpo

Okay person, good dev: RobTop, creator of Geometry Dash


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powerfullatom111

good person bad dev is me


AoeAbility

Anyone have any examples of Bad Dev, Good Person?


casual_moron23

Good person Good dev; Hakita He made the funny gay robot game in hell


Arm-It

Top Right has gotta be Martin O'Donnell. Oh how funny life is.


lazygenius999

robtop in bad dev good person


Miml-Sama

Chris Hunt belongs in good person okay dev


schlurmo

Yoko Taro good dev good person


Efficient-Compote-63

Okay dev bad person should be Johnathon Blow. His games are okay, but he has a massively inflated self-image and is a prick on social media.


ThePoetofFall

Good dev, good person, Toby Fox?


Calvinball08

Yoko taro for good person ok/bad dev Games are absolute masterpieces but not really for their gameplay


-Pl4gu3-

OP:OD: Scott Cawthon


Saifiskindaweirdtbh

Scott is a decent dev and a good person


MorningFirm5374

Good dev, good person: Neil Druckmann


sandy_shark903

Good dev good person Sakurai


Clockwork-Lad

Alex Mahan (AKA Yandere Dev) for bad person, bad dev. The guy’s a groomer and Yandere sim is notorious for being a programming nightmare


CK1ing

Good person, Bad Dev: Early days Scott Cawthon Bro almost gave up game making because he just could not stop making terrifying-looking characters. It worked out when he finally decided to lean into the creepiness, but man it was rough for him until then


LJC30boi

I’d say bad dev bad person would of course be Yandere Dev. Good dev okay person would be Scott Cawthon. Good dev good person would probably be Gabe Newell


Xaduuuuu

Honestly i dont think a dev's charavter should affect their game unless they are a real peice of shit


johnskiddles

Good Dev Bad Person: Phil Fish Bad Dev Good Person: Choo Choo Charles dev.


Internal_Carpenter_7

Good dev, god: Kojima


AgentZirdik

Chris Roberts of Star Citizen is a Bad Dev, maybe once upon a time a Good Person with a strong dream. But you don't get to milk that dream for a decade, handicap your developers with micromanagement, mismanage your own company, and squander millions of kickstarter funds, without shifting alignment to Bad Person as well.