A Taxonomy of Tech Debt (2018)

Game code tech debt has some of the juiciest, hackiest tech debt out there. LoL is no exception there, some crazy gremlins that they've talked about publicly.

Invisible minions/NPCs isn't unique to LoL either, that's a tried and true hack / tech debt thing. To the point where I question if it's even debt anymore. See e.g. WoW and invisible bunnies (https://kotaku.com/the-invisible-bunnies-that-power-world-of...).

I like the 3 metrics of tech debt here.