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same but i'm good at tricking people

I actually contributed to this one too, kentona! Feel guilty!!

...please don't feel guilty.

Making a game unplayably bad is really easy - but if you want to make a game truly terrible, I think you need to make it just barely fun and playable enough to make the player not drop it. You want to string them along with the promise that it will definitely turn around and really pick up, but then slowly wear them down with just-frustrating enough design - bad UI, not enough save points, scenes and sections that stick around longer than they need to, irritating voice acting, passable but not great music, etc.

That way, when they finally either beat it, or give it up, they'll wake up the next day and realize how incredibly frustrated they are that they wasted so much time on an awful game.

For sure! It can definitely increase the efficiency of your working hours - and honestly, having a checklist is an easy motivator for me; nothing is satisfying like ticking off boxes. But, if all you ever do is organize, you'll never get anything done.

Working in software development, the amount of time we've wasted writing code we didn't need is astounding, and a couple days of pre-planning would've prevented months of work (and many late nights).

Guess what I just played!


Also, I've been really digging this; I never heard them before yesterday!