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Serious Fun: How Silly Mechanics and Easter Eggs Win Over Gamers
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Serious Fun: How Silly Mechanics and Easter Eggs Win Over GamersMacy ToppanGame Design AdvocateFebruary 19, 2025Humans are deeply unserious beings. We’re silly geese; goobers; just people making our way through a world often seen as in shambles. In the pre- and early-social media eras of the 90s-2010s, escapism from the crumbling edifice of society manifested in gritty shooters and high-fantasy RPGs that presented worlds beyond, and often worse, than our own, where players were given straightforward paths toward survival and herosim. These hideaways offered clear solutions in a world full of ‘futile problems’.But, as I said, we’re inherently, deeply goofy: we pivoted to memes, breathed new life into the Impact font, binged so-bad-they're-good movies like Sharknado and Yoga Hosiers, and introduced silly mods into somber games like Skyrim purely for the laughs rather than embellished gameplay.A Skyrim mod turned dragons into fire-breathing, near-indestructible ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’s.W...
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