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Turning Bugs Into Features

Jason C. McDonald on January 14, 2020

I was chuckling over MonkeyUser this morning... And then I got to thinking: can this ever be done right? Can you really promote a bug to a featu...
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Valts Liepiņš

Probably patching up an unexpected bug as a feature won't work in most cases, but one could still take inspiration from them. There have been multiple cases in gamedev, where bugs inspired actual features, some of them even turned into game mechanics!

Here is list of some!

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Robert Wilcox

Newbie here,
I think that is an absolutely wonderful idea!
I have thought about it here and there, but I really didn't give it much thought.
I am very much pessimistic in nature, so this brought me a new look on bugs.
Thanks!