Expecting the Unexpected
summary
A grab bag of concrete surprises: several small prototypes (It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings, Broken Breakout, What the Golf, Keyboard Sports) pivot wildly from original design, a Unity-based magnetic physics system works on PC but fails on consoles forcing a complete rewrite (magnetism math on CPU), a project that started as an RPG becomes an adventure, collaborations begin at jams (erotic VR, Gunnar), and a self-imposed legless Dark Souls run succeeds by using bow-aim rotation plus dagger “golem” jumps—examples of unexpected gameplay that actually ship or teach real constraints.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 6:54Broken Breakout
- 10:33Among the Sleep
- 27:38Target Enemies
- 28:01The First Impossible Challenge
- 29:54Weapon Arts
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