2d games Memes

Nothing says "I don't understand game development" quite like asking for a first-person mode in a 2D side-scroller. The dev's response is chef's kiss—comparing it to someone asking you to add beef and gravy to chocolate cupcakes. Sure, they're both food, but you've fundamentally misunderstood the assignment. Converting a hand-drawn 2D point-and-click game to first-person would require redrawing literally everything from a completely different perspective. It's not a feature request—it's asking you to make an entirely different game. The "get fancier later" caption on that beautiful hand-drawn barn really seals the deal. Yeah buddy, first-person mode is slightly beyond "fancier." TikTok users and feature creep, name a more iconic duo.

Non-developers: "Just make a simple 2D game." Game developers: *sweating profusely while implementing quad tree map rendering, spatial collision algorithms, concurrent state machines, object pools, reusable components, and realtime rewind* That moment when your "simple weekend project" requires six advanced computer science concepts and three mental breakdowns. The eternal gap between what people think programming is and the eldritch horror it actually becomes.