Gamedev Explained by Cats

You know how to do your job. But do you always understand why the project around you works the way it does?

Why does a promising feature suddenly get cut? Why does scope keep growing when the schedule is already tight? Why can something be “done” and still return weeks later? Why do three people sometimes leave the same meeting with three different ideas of what was decided?

When you are new to game development, situations like these can feel random. They usually follow famili…