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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • He’s a fun one.

    Before smart-phones, my Dad used to work in a building next to an adult shop. From his desk he would see every customer who walked in.

    He realized that there were people who would visit multiple times throughout the week, and leave without buying anything, sometimes with their workmates.

    One day he decided to go in and check it out. The place had a “public viewing room”. Basically a mini-cinema in a dark room.

    People were coming in during their lunch breaks to bust a nut, then go back to work.








  • Detailed completionist checklists.

    If I have cleared an area, I want to have it reflected in an overview screen.

    If I’m missing an item, I want to know which enemy drops it, where I can find it, or how I can craft it.

    If I need to pull out my phone to check a wiki, then the game has failed me.

    There’s something to be said for exploration games, and in those cases, the details should be obscured until the player has cleared 90% of the area, or gotten past the boss (or something like this).