Jan 03 2009
Anatomy of a Design Failure: Threshold players able to attack and kill themselves.
People keep asking me to write about how and why I designed things, so I guess it is about time I actually broke down and gave the readers what they want. As I noted in a comment post, when I look back over my 16+ years of computer game design my failures stand out for me more than my successes. I don’t think that is negativity. I think it is just a bit of perfectionism mixed with a desire to never forget my failures in order that I not repeat them. In this post, I am going to discuss an absolute disaster of a design failure from the early years of Threshold : allowing players to attack (and kill) themselves.
