Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed diary suggests code-lock
by Ben Zackheim 
{ Oct 25th 2004 at 9:14AM }
The Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Light Speed diary is probably one of the best-written diaries out there right now. The quips are tittliating, the insights are deep and the self-deprication is refreshing. There isn't enough self-deprication in the games industry these days <snark>. This installment of the series tempts us with the closeness of it all. The expansion pack seems inevitable, as proven by juicy passages like: "The plan is for us to lock down all coding by noon today. We get a build up onto SpaceDev by early afternoon. QA bangs on it all afternoon (and all night) and if it passes we will move it out to SpaceBeta (and both Test Centers) Sunday morning. Hopefully this is the final candidate for what goes Live next week. All bugs that are found will be individually analyzed, to see if it is something that we have to fix before launch or if it is something that we could hotfix in after things go Live. Any and all changes at this time add a layer of risk to the current build, sometimes causing complete regressions of the entire game."
