Devs: Atmosphere | Gamers: Jumpscares Pls

Devs: Atmosphere | Gamers: Jumpscares Pls
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Game devs spend months crafting this beautiful, slow-burn psychological horror experience with subtle environmental storytelling and existential dread. They're thinking Kubrick, Silent Hill 2, atmospheric masterpiece. Then the gamers show up like "yeah cool but WHERE ARE THE LOUD NOISES AND SCARY FACES?" It's the same energy as spending weeks optimizing your elegant algorithm only to have stakeholders ask why there's no loading spinner with flames. The creative vision versus what actually sells. Spoiler alert: jumpscares win every time because apparently we're all just Pavlovian dogs who need that dopamine hit from being startled.

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