{"id":10384,"date":"2022-11-21T03:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/devs-are-admitting-their-sins-on-twitter-and-there-sure-are-a-lot-who-hid-loss-in-games\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T03:14:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T03:14:37","slug":"devs-are-admitting-their-sins-on-twitter-and-there-sure-are-a-lot-who-hid-loss-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/21\/devs-are-admitting-their-sins-on-twitter-and-there-sure-are-a-lot-who-hid-loss-in-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Devs are admitting their ‘sins’ on Twitter, and there sure are a lot who hid Loss in games"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Twitter users joke about the social media platform being on the brink of death and deletion thanks to Elon Musk’s mismanagement, game developers have used this opportunity to stage a final confession, an absolution of all their design sins. It began with a senior character artist working on Overwatch<\/a> admitting he hid “abstracted versions of Loss in older projects”, and continued from there.<\/p>\n

Other developers confessed to similar Loss-related crimes against videogames. For anyone who has remained blessedly ignorant of the Loss meme until now, it began when middling videogame-themed webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del took an unexpected turn for the dramatic with a strip depicting miscarriage. The attempt to add emotional heft to a gamers-on-a-couch gag strip was so mockable that chronically online people torment each other with minimalist-yet-recognizable interpretations of its four panels<\/a> to this day.<\/p>\n

And that is why there is a Loss edit on an alligator in Maneater<\/a>, an entire level in Super Meat Boy Forever that references Loss<\/a>, and a Loss meme “the size of a cruise ship” somewhere in A Hat in Time<\/a>. Hiding Loss edits in textures and tilesets<\/a> is a recurring theme of the thread, as well as hiding other images and animations whether bananas<\/a> or the Naruto run<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like an image in a texture no one will ever notice, many of the “sins” aren’t really that sinful. For instance, agreeing to reduce the reload and run speed buffs in Far Cry 6 then never doing it<\/a> would make you a hero in the eyes of many. Likewise, the champion tester who noticed that in The Witcher 3 when Triss turned 180 degrees “her boobs would keep on jiggling for solid 15 seconds” and submitted a ticket to nerf that boob jiggle<\/a>. Or the writer on Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a> responsible for characters mentioning an alternate name suggested for their team was Stardust Crusaders, in reference to an arc of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.<\/p>\n

Other admissions are the kind of delightful dev hacks reminiscent of Fallout 3’s metro car actually being an item of clothing equipped on the player’s hand<\/a>. Here’s a perfect example: in Outer Wilds the player doesn’t move<\/a>, the entire rest of the universe does, as it makes movement and aiming smoother. And in Outriders, there’s a forest fire scene but no system for fire propagation, so some poor designer had to script “about 600 plants to individually catch fire”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not all are without sin, however. May the Lord find it in his heart to forgive the monster who admitted, “I worked on Bubsy 3D.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Devs are admitting their ‘sins’ on Twitter, and there sure are a lot who hid Loss in games<\/p>\n

While Twitter users joke about the social media platform being on the brink of death and deletion thanks to Elon Musk’s mismanagement, game developers have used this opportunity to stage a final confession, an absolution of all their design sins. It began with a senior character artist working on Overwatch<\/a> admitting he hid “abstracted versions of Loss in older projects”, and continued from there.<\/p>\n

Other developers confessed to similar Loss-related crimes against videogames. For anyone who has remained blessedly ignorant of the Loss meme until now, it began when middling videogame-themed webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del took an unexpected turn for the dramatic with a strip depicting miscarriage. The attempt to add emotional heft to a gamers-on-a-couch gag strip was so mockable that chronically online people torment each other with minimalist-yet-recognizable interpretations of its four panels<\/a> to this day.<\/p>\n

And that is why there is a Loss edit on an alligator in Maneater<\/a>, an entire level in Super Meat Boy Forever that references Loss<\/a>, and a Loss meme “the size of a cruise ship” somewhere in A Hat in Time<\/a>. Hiding Loss edits in textures and tilesets<\/a> is a recurring theme of the thread, as well as hiding other images and animations whether bananas<\/a> or the Naruto run<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Like an image in a texture no one will ever notice, many of the “sins” aren’t really that sinful. For instance, agreeing to reduce the reload and run speed buffs in Far Cry 6 then never doing it<\/a> would make you a hero in the eyes of many. Likewise, the champion tester who noticed that in The Witcher 3 when Triss turned 180 degrees “her boobs would keep on jiggling for solid 15 seconds” and submitted a ticket to nerf that boob jiggle<\/a>. Or the writer on Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a> responsible for characters mentioning an alternate name suggested for their team was Stardust Crusaders, in reference to an arc of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.<\/p>\n

Other admissions are the kind of delightful dev hacks reminiscent of Fallout 3’s metro car actually being an item of clothing equipped on the player’s hand<\/a>. Here’s a perfect example: in Outer Wilds the player doesn’t move<\/a>, the entire rest of the universe does, as it makes movement and aiming smoother. And in Outriders, there’s a forest fire scene but no system for fire propagation, so some poor designer had to script “about 600 plants to individually catch fire”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not all are without sin, however. May the Lord find it in his heart to forgive the monster who admitted, “I worked on Bubsy 3D.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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