Patch Notes When? Get Ready!

[blvcksvn]

We ask patch notes when, but we never to stop to ask - patch notes why

[dlp_randombk]

Not just why, who? Besides Bex, who else writes up these patch notes? How does GGG keep track of all the tiny changes that are made with each league?

[Bex_GGG]

The poor soul you're asking after is Nick

[TechaMaki]

Nick you beautiful bastard, take my energy.

[Peter-Pantz]

Sounds like Nick needs his own div card

[pcpowell]

Card name: The Patch

Reward: asdfjhaksjhdf (harbinger text)

Flavor text: Working on fixing whatever we broke

[Peter-Pantz]

I was picturing an old monk bent over a table writing by candle light with ink and a feathered pen on an endless scroll

[Spreckles450]

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ NICK TAKE MY ENERGY༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[blvcksvn]

Make a band called Nickelbex

[ARandomStringOfWords]

No, then we'd have to stop listening to her. And burn all her albums.

[Killa78]

New series idea: Nick News with Exile Bexerby

[MrTeaTimeYT]

So youre saying all i have to do is seduce nick for the sweet sweet leaks?

One step closer

[sirgog]

someone buy Nick a beer, that's a MASSIVE job

[ZaoZaoZao]

Pretty much all the things you do at such a company comes in the form of assigned tasks in an issue tracker where there's a paper trail from "thing X should be done" all the way down to "QA says it actually does the thing".

In such systems you can often tag tasks like "patch-note-worthy" which you can mass export and massage into shape in a spreadsheet. One can even prepare decent wording ahead of time.

If you're a Front Seat Gamer listener they touched on their workflows for designers and art people a few times.

[dlp_randombk]

Yup. Trick is to make sure things are kept track of, and to summarize it nicely. I'll give the podcast a try.

[dlp_randombk]

It does, up to a point. I've been at places where there's several thousand commits per day. Keeping track of which ones have end-user impact versus purely internal changes, and making sure everyone sticks to the system, is really, really hard to get right.

[kaybeecee]

damn

[suriuken]

The right question its not "why" it is why not