The Wheel Trap

The Wheel Trap
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The impossible challenge for indie game devs isn't escaping the horror room—it's resisting the urge to code their own physics engine from scratch when a perfectly functional solution already exists! That creepy Jigsaw-like character knows exactly how to torture developers: put them in a room with a working component and watch them spend 72 hours implementing their own "slightly better" version instead of just using what works. The door to shipping their game has been open the whole time, but they're too busy optimizing wheel rotation algorithms to notice.

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