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Where is the KISS code?

By TheRave

8 years ago


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#206 8 years ago

There is no "focusing" on code. The only thing that you can provide for programmers to generate more code is more time to do it. So you are either "focusing" on code for new or current product or older product.

If you are running "lean" with just enough programmers to "finish" the product as physical demand for shipment of product deadlines approach and pass for the company to remain solvent, resources like time become no longer available as the transition to the next product has already begun.

We should remember a place in time not so long ago when Stern games shipped with much fuller, all but finished code with rules, dots and sounds for all features at the time of shipment.

More programmers would likely initially be a hindrance as they curved the learn of the platform and basics of pinball code and how to implement it so the designer's expectations were met.

Like it or not, a "finished" pinball machine is one that accepts money, provides a certain amount of play/entertainment, and then ends the game so more entertainment can be purchased again. Anything beyond that is "unnecessary" added-value for the consumer.

The consumer can only affect the production model by choosing not to purchase the entertainment at the offered price point. Complaining after the purchase is too late. You are at the mercy of production schedules and available man-hours for any added-value content. A manufacturer running lean may never revisit that product for added-value content (wheel of torture).

More programmers is a long-term solution. More time during production is a short-term solution.

Entirely un-informed and uneducated opinion on my part, but that's how it breaks down to me.

#270 8 years ago
Quoted from ZippyThePinhead:

Granted...buy or not buy is probably the greatest influence we have with Stern...but I'm pretty sure someone within Stern's management, if not Gary himself, reads a lot of what is posted on Pinside. If the overall vibe of this community is interpreted as we're not happy, but we're going to live with it...Stern won't change a thing in the way they do business. But maybe, just maybe, if the overall vibe of the community is we're fed up and we're not going to take it anymore...and with all of the new up and coming pin manufacturers...Stern might be forced to face the reality the change is necessary so they don't become the next IBM. Bottom line...accepting it the way it is, nothing will ever change...expressing our displeasure could at some point bring about change.

They asked this guy why pinball is the way it is...

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#948 7 years ago

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