God would have made the Universe a little better you see, but his project managers cut his deadline and budget by half. And when there was only one week left until the deadline, the whole scope of the project changed, so God just slapped something together so they could ship it: a lighting engine, a skybox, some landscapes and some actors.

He had to sacrifice half of his weekend, but eventually he called it “good” and told them to ship it. He certainly wasn’t going to waste his Sunday working on _that_ doomed project.

If anything went wrong, they could just restart the whole thing with the “Deluge” or “Flood” command. The “Miracle” commands could also be used to to perform some “local” changes (like the “Miracle revive [actorname], that revives actors).

Finally, they could drop the debug actor (called JC, because that’s the name of God’s cat) into the world to perform changes or tests from within the engine. Of course god warned them not to let JC wander around unsupervised. is AI was a little retarded you see: he would just start walking around, attracting a crowd and spurting out nonsense (mostly logs and debug messages…like anybody withing the simulation would care) and he would eventually find a way to get himself killed. A bug in the JC death code would revive him momentarily after a while, before the engine realized he has dead and proceeded to free it’s resources.

So, moral of the story: if you want software done right, don’t piss off your programmers and don’t go messing with the deadlines and feature requests one month before the project is due.