Synesthesia was my Junior year game project at Digipen. It can be fairly comfortable working in small teams. The overhead of adding additional functionality to an engine with a handful of developers is much simpler. A completely fresh team with a size approaching double digits puts a lot more pressure on maintenance. The days of adding new code with no repercussions are gone and the days of crossing your fingers in hopes that nothing explodes are in. Finding the solution to a problem is one step, but integrating it properly into the software is definitely not an optional one. It was immediately clear I had to think of scalability. Abstraction, templates, inheritance, modularity and design patterns made this task easier to swallow. I'm glad I worked on this game because it gave me a lot of perspective on the scale of larger company games.