Not that I know of, it's just funny he prefers a hardcoded array with cope about optimization and hackability when the optimization is irrelevant and a JSON file would be more appropriate based on his copes. He is editing yaml because that's what his Minecraft "MMO" uses and it lets him seem like a cool hacker passively, or so he thinks.
I legit believe it's possible to edit a bunch of clips together where Mald disagrees with himself (and the clips arent "out of context") for like an hour or something. I also believe that the person who'd do that would suffer an irreversible Mald-induced brain trauma
I am a filthy SKG tourist so I had to go search for this because it seems too retarded. Even most jeets can understand json. It's how all the API code monkeys do stuff with their microservices.
And if this is true then just lol, lmao. It's yandere dev tier and on it's own would confirm he never did any real dev work at blizzard.
What most likely is he learned what it is after already having hundreds of entries in the god array and it was too late to fix it so he claims "it's faster" as a cope. In fairness the game has been in development hell for so long that JSON had likely only become ubiquitous a few years before he started the god-array
If you wanted to be as charitable as possible, it is pretty common for laymen to use "the devs" to refer to literally everyone on a video game team. You go on a gaming forum you'll see statements like "why are the devs charging so much", "the devs cooked on these skins" when the software devs aren't setting prices or making assets. So you can be 'a dev' without doing 'dev work'
This is disrespectful to yanderedev. While he was lazy, and weird I believe he ACTUALLY had some competency coding compared to jason. Like seriously, its a 3d game, it had some degree of stealth system, actual 3d animations, physics..... It wasn't ENTIRELY crap
See, the difference between other review bombs and the "review bomb" that is "currently happening" to his game is that it isn't happening to him, so it was okay to stroke off the mob justice types because he's totally on their side. Another fascinating insight into the mind of a narcissist.
What was the actual conclusion to the hacking thing btw I only know Jason and remember him as being a voice for calm.
My most pessimistic “corpos will fuck us and nothing ever happens” take is that live service games will just do the Nintendo thing and say this isn’t a software product, but “ it is is a license to use our software for an indeterminate amount of time. Press X to accept and play the game. You fucking worms.” And Reddit will defend this as an epic win and that games were never made to last forever anyway :^]
I would like to point out just how low the bar is here. For all his faults, I don’t think Alex every claimed anywhere near the experience Mald lies about as far as programming, and even then at least Yandere Simulator is a 3d Game, albeit one made of totally not stolen assets, instead of Pixel Art Indie Game #8675309, and thus is probably harder to code (idk, I haven’t worked on code since High School…)
I've seen the nested if / else statements and if you put a gun to my head and told me to choose between "we put everything on ONE array" or "maximum spaghetti" I would tell you to pull the trigger.
Google-san tells me that both XML and JSON were created in 2001, and JSON specifically had been established enough to have an Ecma International standardization by 2013. And, how long ago did Heartbound start development? 8 years ago was 2017, so JSON was extremely popular and well-known by then. Pretty sure even I knew what JSON was back then (despite me being too incompetent to finish a project) so JSON was certainly well-known among hobbyist game programmers back then.
Even the most evil favela druglord doesn't deserve to share the same geographic vicinity as a corpo niggercattle.
He did the same during a stream a while back, where he bitched about Matpat misremembering Pirate's name and mislabeling his game as Undertale. Matpat ended up apologizing in a tweet. Jason skimmed over the tweet, and since he already thinks that Matpat was a piece of shit, he falsely assumed Matpat shifted blame to his editors.
I'm sure Mald understands json format just fine he just avoided it for his game in favor of an ever-growing array that has probably become unwieldy and is less "hackable" for Heartbound fans than almost many more reasonable ways of doing it. My guess is he uses an array because it was the easiest way to get started and he didn't think too much about the future.
At least Tommy Tallerico co-hosted a G4 show.
The best part is him getting off on war stories about calling up Blizzard's customer support to see if they will reveal any sensitive info during the call. Not once he tries to put a spin of a training exercise on it.
The problem is that he doesn't build modular systems, having 1 script file be the centerpiece of your entire game's logic is the fuckup. Picture making a game with the expectation of creating hundreds of routes whilst requiring each new detail to be added to a single file, which is how he went about doing things. Using something like JSON in this case doesn't solve the issue, you still have a shit system but now it's in a big json instead
