Videogame Debugging - the Basics

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Debugging is a critical skill for videogame development
All disciplines create bugs, so everyone should know how to do it.
It is one of the basics of success in your job.

Let me walk through the process I used when I was a programmer.
Debugging was the thing that I was best at.

I find the videos that show senior programmers as perfect engines of code to be extremely frustrating. And inaccurate. It isn't about not making mistakes. Its about being able to fix mistakes.

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