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Greg Lobanov
@greg.style

When a menu has a neat little tween. Or a character has a funny little animation. Somebody out there spent days making that little detail perfect. And when you’re playing a game you’re blasted with like 50 of these little things per minute. Games are so rich with human life! It’s awesome!!!

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Taffy (frightful)🍬🐇🎃
@taffywabbit.bsky.social

my favourite thing is when one of those countless little human-made details has a noticeable bit of extra polish/flourish given to it every once in a while, and just for a moment i can feel the devs telling me "hey. this is important to us. we really wanted to get this part right so you'd know that"

Taffy (frightful)🍬🐇🎃
@taffywabbit.bsky.social

one of the biggest ones that really hits me every single time is when a game with hand-drawn sprites of some sort makes a point of having a bespoke animation of two characters physically embracing, at a point in the narrative where it'd be far weaker if a workaround was used to avoid animating that