Game developers are sharing the delightful chaos that ensues when you take a random line of code in a video game and crank it up to 1,000.
In the pure spirit of fun, Tyler Glaiel, known for The End is Nigh, Bombernauts, The Basement Collection, and the upcoming Mewgenics, recently urged developers to "take a short break" and take part in an experiment that's already yielding an array of wildly entertaining behind-the-scenes videos of games being utterly broken just for the fun of it.
"If you're currently working on a video game, take a short break, pick a number in your code or data files, multiply it by 1000, and post the results," Glaiel said, kicking off the trend with a clip from Mewgenics in which a cat character's attack animation is turned into piñata of blood and guts.
like this you jokershttps://t.co/9UPcbnETuzMay 9, 2024
Other game developers were quick to follow suit with their own, uh, experiments. LocalThunk, the solo developer behind the smash hit roguelike deckbuilder Balatro, shared what happens when the Hanging Chad Joker is modified to trigger a card 2,000 additional times instead of just twice as usual. The fact that this absolutely mad scenario can actually run without breaking the game's UI or animations is actually pretty incredible.
kilochad https://t.co/71Zl56zEYx pic.twitter.com/oZjGSBJJObMay 13, 2024
Aaron San Filippo, the outspoken director of Whisker Squadron: Survivor, shared a clip of the roguelite's player character firing off 1,000 homing missiles all at once, utterly decimating everything on screen. Inversely, the developer behind a game "about a delivery man with the worst luck" shared a clip in which this particular delivery man has much, much worse luck than usual, adding, "I could definitely turn this into a game mdoe."
Meanwhile, the creator of the "light horror experience" La Peradilla yeeted a steel barrel into the actual sun.
I heard you like homing missileshttps://t.co/sFSOSl71VlMay 10, 2024
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