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If I ever make a game, I'm gonna force the player to read. A gamer's ultimate weakness (not including grass)

Do both, but readers get a 20% damage bonus.

people bitch about the owl in oot defaulting to a button that just repeats the text but this is maybe the most genius thing anyone's ever done

lmao

"cinvey through voice lines" and thus people complain the mc never shuts up and the cycle repeats

Putting the essential information in the third of four text pop up pages to really filter them out

Long instruction booklet tutorial with a quiz at the end and you can't play unless you get at least 70% of the questions right

ten dialogue boxes, but the instruction on what button to press and where is only revealed by changing the text if the user waits at least 20 seconds on each dialogue box

read a funny story that playtesters got frustrated during the tutorial because they couldn't avoid the instakill boulder drop that knocks out one of your two starting cats to demonstrate the injury mechanic the solution was to make it do 999 damage to make it CLEAR it was scripted and unavoidable

Making a game where whenever a text pop-up appears on screen the blorbo they're controlling says "Hey asshole, read this shit or you're gonna complain because you didnt"

Isn’t using images and such to explain what the player needs to do been a thing since…the start of video games….? Like conveying what the player needs to do by using basic 101 level design to guide you into understanding what the deal with this game is 😭

The Anti-Grump Mechanism, I call it

"Dark Souls in the format of Zork" will be a culling event of massive proportions.

legend of Zelda:Tears of the kingdom does this all the time and it sold like 22 million copies. And yeah it is a bit aggressive with the tutorialization to the point where most of the game feels like a tutorial but yeah.

ya gotta make it so the text box wont go away until you do the thing its asking