What are 'bugs'?

What are 'bugs'?

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A bug is any little issue in a game. I say little, but they can be really massive as well. A bug could be the game just crashes, hangs, for whatever reason, and these are priority one bugs. We get rid of those as soon as we can. Bugs can also be just little, odd, very unexpected things, like pressing a button and suddenly the character does a 180 spin and no-one knows why. That's a functional issue. A bug in a game could be an art issue as well. For example, suddenly the clouds are not travelling in the right direction, for whatever reason, on one level. There's hundreds of little things that can go wrong with games and that's what bugs are.