Ideas for making the game even worse: 1. Unusual controls. For example, use GCVB to move the character instead of using WASD 2.Making a level that requires using new game mechanics without any tutorial at all 3. Add annoying background music that loops forever 4. Add a fake multiplayer gamemode that does nothing 5. Sudden drop of frame rate for no reason 6. Random pop-up ads 7. Rick roll the players
Music randomly turns off for a few seconds, restarts the loop, starts playing over itself, and enormously increases gain every once in a while. Which one of these effects occur is random.
@@pixeldoesart1864 In a rage game all the mechanics are placed there to annoy the player, in a bad game they're usually a byproduct of the dev not caring enough to play test there game. A rage game is effectively a boss battle as a video game, you play it figure out the patterns and beat it through patience. Truth be told I think its impossible to set out to make a bad game, as a bad games usually turn out that way due to lack of passion for the project which isn't exactly something you can fake. I think if you did want to set out to make a bad game you'd probably want to put no effort into user friendliness and fill it with mechanics that don't work well/fit logically together.
@@Brizzle427 Yes the worst games are just asset flips. Like download a unity first person shooter base, throw in other things you want that other people have made, do not do any coding whatsoever to fix things that don't combine well, put in zero effort to be creative. That's a bad game to me.
There are a few obvious omissions which could have made your game a lot worse. * Story: a terrible, unskippable story is always worse than no story. * Death: overly drawn-out unskippable death sequences with audio that genuinely hurts to listen to is always worse than a simple 'restart the level' * Loading screens: overly long, slow loading screens are a surefire way to ensure player frustration (especially if it's a fake loading screen which takes an inconsistent length of time and the progress bar (if present) is entirely inaccurate) * Visuals: needs to clash more. Needs a mishmash of premade assets and garish poorly drawn assets. Simple squares run the risk of looking tasteful. * Controls: randomly rebind them during gameplay, without the player having any clue about what button they now need to press. * Viewport scrolling: don't scroll with the player. Either don't scroll it at all, or scroll it such that it's rather delayed (player already offscreen) before overshooting (too far forward), or scroll it at random intervals, or keep constantly shaking it in random directions during gameplay to give the player motion sickness. * Closing the game: no escape button. The only escape the player has is by forcibly closing the game via task manager. * Audio (in general): needs to be incredibly obnoxious. Fingers scraping down blackboard accompanied by a choir of screaming babies. volume fluctuating randomly between very very quiet and incredibly loud. If you can handle more than 2 seconds of the audio, it's not bad enough. And don't forget obnoxious sound effects for everything in the level. * The Coins: okay so have you ever seen Sheriff Domestic? If yes, you can probably guess what I'm about to suggest. If not: pause the game, have an obnoxious 'you got a coin' fanfare thing appear, and then resume the game after the player sits through that (and doing it all over again for the next coin!)
Agree everything except controls, but then thought could work if you had a 'double tap a key to rebind' function and the interval for what counts as a rebind changes every few seconds until it inevitably catches you out and the WASD turns into DXCV because you double tapped D. Like it's a useful function if it didn't have such potential to screw you over. Or just make any 2 presses of the same key in a row count as a double tap. Player could work around that but it would be annoying! Also the coins thing I've played the sonic mod similar where it freezes the screen when you collect a ring to play I think the life up sound as many times as you now have rings. It reaches unplayable very fast!
@@kailomonkey I guess the issue with 'double-tap a key to rebind' would be getting the player to tap the other key in the first place. Of course, swapping around the existing bindings will potentially cause some intended player frustration and might make it playable using a controller, but having the possibility of the inputs being rebound to a button which isn't in use strikes me as having much more potential to frustrate the player.
@@ParasocialCatgirl Agree. My vision was you'd be pressing right and you accidentally press it twice in a row, and it rebinds that key to up and moves all the other keys to the ones below it. It's not as annoying as it could be but as you say, getting other keys double clicked is an issue with the idea. I think it can work fine with joypads too. Admittedly the idea would take an actual lot of work to define where the other keys would go in relation to the one you accidentally rebind to up. On a gamepad it could rotate the dpad perhaps. The main difference between how the 'bad game' was made and how I think it could be more authentically bad rather than a rage game, is that this onw is programmed badness. Whereas I think games can be bad due to programming good things that don't combine well and never get addressed or even considered or even tested!
you failed! why? you made the enemy red! thats too good game design!! you should take inspiration from this one flash game i played a while ago, where you were skydiving and had to dodge things. what did you have to dodge? planes? birds? no! clouds of course! there was literally zero visual indicator that would make your brain think thats what youre supposed to do. amazingly terrible game design.
The worst game ever isn't just a game that you can't... play ? So technically to make the worst game ever you could've just put a black screen and tadam !
In high school a few friends and I pranked a dude who was quite obnoxious about being a tech expert and "real gamer" by making up a fake game called "Temple Rumours". We asked him if he had heard of it and he pretended he had. He spent a few days thinking the game was real and trying to get his hands on it. In the end one of us even made a fake hard copy with boxart and everything, but when the disc was inserted the message "pwned" (it was the 2000s ok?) popped up. So going by your standards Temple Rumours probably is the worst game ever.
I love how when you're walking, you're on the extreme side of the screen where you want to go, making it impossible to know what's next, and only makes you see the parts you already passed through, which is useless. Very bad game 10/10.
This is not a "bad game", it's just a troll game like Kaizo Mario tbh. A bad game should be consistent with its features but frustrating. I even can imagine The Last Of Us to be more frustrating than your game if the Devs would've just cut the entire game in the middle of the story, or if Tetris had blocks that do not fit, or a Simulation Game that starts with everything unlocked but you lose progress with every levelup, or just beeing super slow in a shooter. Still, good video. :)
This is no where near terrible enough. Every part of this game could be made worse. Movement: Have noticeable 1 second delay between giving an input and it being acted on. Have small platforms that require precise controls, yet your player character is really slippery on top of them sometimes just not moving. Story:What's worse than no story? Having a story with wasted potential. Make an opening cutscene with a really cool story premise. Then never deliver on it. Or recon it in the most disappointing way possible once you beat the first level like that entire starting sequence was just a dream and now your going to school, then just stop having a story. Make sure the opening with significantly better graphics than the rest of the game, unskippable, and with a really slow text speed, with walls of text. Graphics: There's one major problem with your graphics. They aren't painful to look at. Make the graphics visually painful to look at. Be sure to have a bunch of background elements than blend in with the middle ground elements so you can't tell what's what. Make sure the player and enemies blend in with the background. If you aren't making Top Banana look like a masterpiece, your graphics aren't bad enough yet. Level design: Here's one neat trick to make terrible level design, don't. Start with a minute long walk on a plane of nothing, and make a really difficult and precise platforming section at the end. But other than that just make whatever seems cool at the time, and don't playtest or think too hard about it. In fact just add in a bunch of mechanics and never playtest them. If the game doesn't crash your good. Other: When you die have a long death jingle followed by it kicking you back to the menu screen. Where you have to watch the opening cutscene again. Have really long loading times for no reason. Make the music a loop of a sirren, then have an enemy that you have to listen for to dodge. Have all the sounds in the first level way louder than anything else in the game.
@@jackatjack2886 Pretty much, except you've got to be careful with what glitches you leave in the game. If you leave in too many glitches that are interesting or fun, you might accidentally let a few people enjoy your game through the coolness of the glitches alone.
Gravity is for good games. The jump should make you go up at a steady rate then fall at the same rate. Ever played a scratch platformer? Things can get a lot worse.
You should make a game with too many controls like breathing and making your heart beat to survive. Edit: you should also add a feature where you can randomly die of a brain aneurysm
You should have added a sound option that didnt work, and a graphics option that would make the screen 10 different color blocks, optimize the game horribly, and have some of the coins reset the coin count, also you have to pay 15 cents for 10 seconds of game play
A few suggestions to make it even worse: Make it so that the jump height and speed changes randomly occasionally Make a terrible annoying five second music loop throughout the entire thing have the very rare audio sometimes glitch out too in a multitude of ways like loudness, compression, etc Give the background and ground graphics worse quality by compressing them too Make the main characters arms and eyes misaligned with each other by just a few pixels, and well as the options on the main menu Use completely different terrible fonts for the main menu too And just have the player die randomly at times for no other reason
I think he already has 'player die randomly' covered. Could have an arbitrary hidden timer that starts at a randomised time though, with a time out message. Also send to the main menu when this happens or on other deaths because a level resetting quickly actually makes any platformer accessible to keep retrying. Make the menu have annoying options to go through to even start the game. If you have a save system sending you straight to the level you've reached, have it clear your save and start from scratch if you click through the menues too fast.
1- Make it so the camera wont follow the character. Instead, there should be keys to move the scene. That'd be horrible. 2- Add a game music which wont loop. Plays once and stops for rest of the game. 3- Add stutters when the character just about to do a critical and hard jump.
how to make the worst game ever.... take everything good; from every game you've ever played, mash them together with no rime or reason. release a part done, but functioning version to a bunch of youtubers to get excited about and begin to promote add one update that adds a ton of bugs, glitches and bad code, conflicting systems. put it on steam with the promise of fixing said game... then completely abandon the community with an 'I fixed it all up, don't worry, will be in unstable branch next week' but you will never release another update to any branch.... You will carry on collecting the over priced amount you put on the game.... you don't need to understand how to make a good game to make a bad one... every game is an experience. just give a bad experience
Idea : Every second, the game has a 1% chance of randomly “crashing” and your entire progress is reset. Even if you are in level 2, you go all the way back to the start of level 1! This would make the game 10 times worse lol
Checkmate! You delivered exactly what you set out to make, meaning you satisfied the expectations you set for yourself and your viewers, thus paradoxically making a good game out of a bad one.
I once made a platformer where jumping against a block to the left would launch you in the air because of weird collision detection. I probably chose precise collision detection and the sprite jumped multiple times in a row. And at the end you'd get in a rocket and it fell through the ground because of a double negative vertical speed.
1. mobile touch controls that you have to operate with a mouse 2. it's also inverted 3. the jump button is as far away from the movement circle as possible 4. the movement circle is actually a square 5. when you move your character then stop moving, the circle doesn't go back in the middle, so you've got to drag it around the screen to move
I think there is atleast one more thing to do to make the chareter design even worse you need to add parts to it that don't even affect the game and all sorts of bad colors randomly put on it.
Also, in order to make the game worse, just make the graphics worse! So bad that you can barely tell what is what. Also, have a weapon that doesn’t do anything at all! Have unavoidable hazards, deceptive enemies, unpredictable weapons, delayed controls, crappy color schemes that look like vomit and crap, as well as levels that are repeats of other levels. Have more levels because the more levels, the worse that it gets.
Even worse ideas: Add random flashing lights. Add too many colourful textures (rainbows, stupid flags) Add that you can’t die as if you forgot to add death.
The fact that you had to use the enemy to pass the level is actually really cool and unique, sad that it had to be used in the worst game ever but hey, you gotta madden someone somehow
I have gotten the best worst suggestions that everyone else suggested in my opinion. Coin Fanfare - Every time you get a coin, it plays a "You Got A Coin!" fanfare. You can't move during this. Unusual controls that the game tells you about, but makes it a pain to listen - Let me explain. The controls would be something like GCV(comma) instead of WASD. At the beginning of the game, it would tell you this but here's the thing: The volume changes drastically during the message so that you can barely hear the controls but everything else said is really loud. It'd sound like "*HELLO PLAYER!!!! YOUR CONTROLS ARE* ᵍ *FOR JUMPING*ᶜ *FOR GOING LEFT* ᵛ *FOR GOING DOWN??? AND* ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵃ *FOR GOING RIGHT!!!!!!*" This will force players to have to rapidly move the volume, most of the time failing. Janky controls - On the subject of controls, why not make it so that players can't jump and move left-right at the same time, meaning they can't go diagonal. Janky hitboxes - Enemy hitboxes would be bigger than they look and platform hitboxes would be bigger or smaller than they look. Annoying, loud BGM - After the controls are said by the voice with the annoying volume changes, BGM would play that is repetitive, annoying, and loud. New mechanic with no tutorial - In Level 2, there could be a new, unnecessarily complicated mechanic that isn't taught to the player. Holding controls - Just like the controls randomly stop, sometimes when you go left or jump, it will hold that control for several seconds. Because you also can't jump and move left-right at the same time, you wouldn't be able to move if the game held jumping like that. This is actually a glitch in Scratch that could get annoying sometimes, and it'd be "good" to have it in this game.
One more idea for the coins. Have the counter start at 26 and then count down for no clear reason. Have the coin counter remain through death or beating levels. If the counter reaches 0 and you collect another coin, the game crashes due to lack of code to handle overflowing/underflowing for the counter. It'll be like it was never expected to drop below zero, but the code is so broken that it inevitably does anyway.
My worst game would be a taxi hailing simulator where you have to hail a taxi but most of the time they pass you, you have 1 frame to succeed. If you do you have to take the taxi to your pregnant wife in the hospital but there's tons of traffic and the taxi driver recites the entire bee movie script with no punctuation, and when you get there he drops you off before you realize you forgot something so you have to repeat the process to get back to where you started, then you navigate your house to figure out what you forgot but I don't give you any hints, then you have to do the taxi thing one more time to finish the game
This basically just feels like 1 out of every 15 Flash games ever made. It might be beneficial to revisit this concept, but be more specific in what you're trying to achieve. Most unsatisfying game, most frustrating game, etc.
Video bucket for badgamedev 1: I paid fiver game developers to make the same game 2: I made the same game in 1 day, 1 hour, and 10 minutes 3: I remade (popular game/usually minecraft) with some gimmick Glad you did something somewhat new for this one though.
I suggest making it worse by adding the credits to the starting screen, but it can't be clicked on and jumps away to a random spot when you try to click on it.
It would be worse if you made it that instead of the player moving, the whole entire ground and sky just moves. imagine playing smash bros and when you move your character, they stay still but they are still moving on the island
I wanna propose a challenge, the worst game ever, that's still a complete game. No deliberately broken mechanics like controls just turning off, no deliberate game breaking bugs, it has to pass as a game not just a broken prototype
One good way to make the story worse is to have a big block of text on the screen of really shitty writing that you will need to take a full 45 seconds-1 minute to read which pops up before each level, but you also need to wait 2 minutes before you can close the text, and this text always shows up before a level starts.
Ideas to make it worse 1.you randomly die 2. Your jump sometimes makes you go through the ground and die 3.if you move in the first 10 secs of restarting or starting a new level you get rickrolled and die 4.holes that if you fall in you can’t jump out 5. Fake restart button in pause menu (but the quit is real) 6. Really crappy backround like purple up orange next to it the green next to the orange 🤮 7.if you tap the fake restart button the a amogus guy twerks :) 8. The title should be unreadable like opsisiuejenwh on top :| 9.a control menu that takes you out of the app 10.the character should be a uu like a butt Well that’s crazy and enough
Alright. Listen here. Make every level as long, boring and repetitive as possible. A gate at the end of a level has only a 0.01% chance of letting you pass. Before it opens (or most likely doesn't), a 20 second cutscene plays. Every. Time. After the cutscene plays, you can no longer die or proceed in the level, you gotta restart. You boot up the game again, and would you look at that, the game has no save files and the gate is all the way to level 5. Months pass and you finally get the 0.01% chance. You advance to level 6, and... nothing. The level is just empty, flat ground. You move and move and move to the right, until you reach the edge. it's been half an hour, and you find a sign that says "the other way
You forgot to make it confusingly elaborate and nearly impossible to solve so much so that it ends up taking thirteen years to find everything in the game.
Interesting experiment. I've seen people try to do this with RPGs for decades. Thing about making intentionally bad RPGs is that it all comes down to the combat mechanics. If the game is bad because of its terrible graphics, audio, and writing choices but the combat is also so easy you basically automatically win, it's a funny comedy game. If the game is bad in all the same ways but the combat is heavily stacked against you with overwhelming odds/RNG to the point where it's impossible to win even basic random encounters, you don't get to see most of the badness so it's a lot worse but somehow prevents you from accessing how bad it truly is.
Missed opportunity with the story. The worst game doesn't have no story. The worst game has a BAD story. Something like this: "Bloke the Block wants to reach his house. Blake the Red and his gang wants to stop him. Blink the White Block has to rescue his girlfriend. Black the Red Bloke has kidnapped Bloke's sister!" And then, midway through the second level, which I assume is still unfinished: "You're almost there Blinky! Your long lost son Blake is waiting for you!" Confusing? Cues were taken from every bad story I've ever seen in a video game. Start the story one way, retcon it midway through, pay no attention to tone or setting, constantly shift motivations and, if possible, make the protagonist as unlikeable as possible. If done correctly, the player will actually be angry by the end of it.
More ways in which you can make the game worse: - Shitty and obnoxious stock music that can't be muted. Or just earrape audio in general. - Generally terrible controls, consisting of noticable input lag, tanky movement or slippery movement. Maybe even have a control scheme that demands highly uncomfortable amounts of finger gymnastics, such as Page Up and Page Down to move left and right and Home to jump. - Inconsistent graphics that either look very basic or hurt to look at. Or just plain gross, like a shitty MS Paint drawing. - Parts of levels that have long stretches of absolutely nothing - Have a story that is extremely nonsensical and given through boring exposition. Also complete the game so you can have a very shitty ending that amounts to "A winner is you!" - Make the game randomly crash - Have invisible enemies or other obstacles. - Have screen obstructions such as fog or liquid splatter randomly appear. - Have sudden shifts in gameplay with no warning, such as a sudden instant-fail stealth level.
If you wanna make a bad game, do these • make the whole thing completely unplayable (e.g. Janky Movement and physics, a good example of this is Hello Neighbor) • Make the quality the lowest png type quality, I'm talking watermarked png images as assets • Extension to the one at top, Make the background and foreground graphics mix, so it's hard to distinguish which objects you can collide with • If the game has enemies, make the hitbox Shit, as in, Make it big as frick • Make the Goal of the game as blurry and vauge as possible so the player doesnt know what they're supposed to be doing • Make the whole thing as Laggy as possible • What was that? Bugs and glitches? Naaaaah leave them be. What? The Players are using it to their advantage? aw hell nah, fix it And that's how you make the worse game possible
Right as he said the game mechanics would randomly stop working and has non solid things, I realized that would make the game good because it had actual mechanics
How to make the worst game: (Don't do this) Make the player go through a repetitive time consuming autoscroller, followed by a very risky section with small platforms that change directions randomly above a bottomless pit, and finally a room full of doors where only one door leads to the goal and all other doors lead to death. No checkpoints, so you always respawn at the very beginning with the autoscroller. In the advertisement, show a very well designed game so players expectations are high.
Should've added A micro transaction that is required midway through level 2 that cost like 4 buck to complete it Make it so clicking to buy it crashes the game on occasion Anytime you close out of the pop-up or click buy it resets the level Put an invisible wall right before the popup so if they move it instantly triggers it Add an annoying and cheerful ring when it pops up everytime Make sure that the level two stays unfinished
Imagine if this game had difficulty options; where easy is playable but with bad features, medium is sometimes playable and sometimes not, and hard being barely playable due to the intentional buggy mess and more bad stuff keep appearing out of nowhere; like that falling thru the ground and teleporting back to start for no reason.
Why this is not the worst game ever: 1.the mouvement are pretty smooth 2.The ground has a texture 3.The player has a face and arms 4.There are coins 5.There is a coin counter 6.There are a lot of features(spike, trap, enemy, jump on enemy. 7....
The grass and dirt textures look way too good for the worst game ever. If you scribble some random colored pixels in MS Paint and just move left to right without any challenge and the game crashes at the end, that would be the worst game ever. Just no effort whatsoever and it's barely even a game.
It lacks jumps that require pixel perfect timing to make it. Also, it should be possible to get so thoroughly stuck that you have to Alt-F4 the game, which of course will cause you to lose all your progress.
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Ok
7h ago?
@@schwegelbin ?
7h ago? Damn you were early(by the time im writing this it has been like 5 mins since the video was... released?)
This doesn't seem like a bad game just a troll game.
Ideas for making the game even worse:
1. Unusual controls. For example, use GCVB to move the character instead of using WASD
2.Making a level that requires using new game mechanics without any tutorial at all
3. Add annoying background music that loops forever
4. Add a fake multiplayer gamemode that does nothing
5. Sudden drop of frame rate for no reason
6. Random pop-up ads
7. Rick roll the players
Music that is way too loud with no way to turn it down
He should make I unbearably long only repeating the first two levels
Yes!
Music randomly turns off for a few seconds, restarts the loop, starts playing over itself, and enormously increases gain every once in a while. Which one of these effects occur is random.
Make it microtransactions based, so not only do you have a bad game, but you get paid for it
I'll be honest this feels more like a rage game than a bad game
What’s the difference
@@pixeldoesart1864 In a rage game all the mechanics are placed there to annoy the player, in a bad game they're usually a byproduct of the dev not caring enough to play test there game. A rage game is effectively a boss battle as a video game, you play it figure out the patterns and beat it through patience. Truth be told I think its impossible to set out to make a bad game, as a bad games usually turn out that way due to lack of passion for the project which isn't exactly something you can fake. I think if you did want to set out to make a bad game you'd probably want to put no effort into user friendliness and fill it with mechanics that don't work well/fit logically together.
@@Brizzle427 I was being sarcastic
@@Brizzle427 Yes the worst games are just asset flips. Like download a unity first person shooter base, throw in other things you want that other people have made, do not do any coding whatsoever to fix things that don't combine well, put in zero effort to be creative. That's a bad game to me.
I'd say making a bad game on purpose is pretty hard if not impossible, you'd most likely end up making a rage game
A lag in button presses could also make it worse. Maybe a lag only for going left and jumping
i was also thinking something similar. having the game run at 10 fps and have an input delay.
@Пётр Бойков this is evil…I love it
@Пётр Бойков yeah and a 1% chance everytime that you press a button that it will just kill you
@@vincentweatherly9991 good idea i thought too
@Пётр Бойков good idea
There are a few obvious omissions which could have made your game a lot worse.
* Story: a terrible, unskippable story is always worse than no story.
* Death: overly drawn-out unskippable death sequences with audio that genuinely hurts to listen to is always worse than a simple 'restart the level'
* Loading screens: overly long, slow loading screens are a surefire way to ensure player frustration (especially if it's a fake loading screen which takes an inconsistent length of time and the progress bar (if present) is entirely inaccurate)
* Visuals: needs to clash more. Needs a mishmash of premade assets and garish poorly drawn assets. Simple squares run the risk of looking tasteful.
* Controls: randomly rebind them during gameplay, without the player having any clue about what button they now need to press.
* Viewport scrolling: don't scroll with the player. Either don't scroll it at all, or scroll it such that it's rather delayed (player already offscreen) before overshooting (too far forward), or scroll it at random intervals, or keep constantly shaking it in random directions during gameplay to give the player motion sickness.
* Closing the game: no escape button. The only escape the player has is by forcibly closing the game via task manager.
* Audio (in general): needs to be incredibly obnoxious. Fingers scraping down blackboard accompanied by a choir of screaming babies. volume fluctuating randomly between very very quiet and incredibly loud. If you can handle more than 2 seconds of the audio, it's not bad enough. And don't forget obnoxious sound effects for everything in the level.
* The Coins: okay so have you ever seen Sheriff Domestic? If yes, you can probably guess what I'm about to suggest. If not: pause the game, have an obnoxious 'you got a coin' fanfare thing appear, and then resume the game after the player sits through that (and doing it all over again for the next coin!)
Agree everything except controls, but then thought could work if you had a 'double tap a key to rebind' function and the interval for what counts as a rebind changes every few seconds until it inevitably catches you out and the WASD turns into DXCV because you double tapped D. Like it's a useful function if it didn't have such potential to screw you over. Or just make any 2 presses of the same key in a row count as a double tap. Player could work around that but it would be annoying!
Also the coins thing I've played the sonic mod similar where it freezes the screen when you collect a ring to play I think the life up sound as many times as you now have rings. It reaches unplayable very fast!
@@kailomonkey the sonic hack is called omochao for sonic 1
@@thebeast5636 Ah yes that's the one. Based on the ever helpful Omochao telling you about rings :D
@@kailomonkey I guess the issue with 'double-tap a key to rebind' would be getting the player to tap the other key in the first place. Of course, swapping around the existing bindings will potentially cause some intended player frustration and might make it playable using a controller, but having the possibility of the inputs being rebound to a button which isn't in use strikes me as having much more potential to frustrate the player.
@@ParasocialCatgirl Agree. My vision was you'd be pressing right and you accidentally press it twice in a row, and it rebinds that key to up and moves all the other keys to the ones below it. It's not as annoying as it could be but as you say, getting other keys double clicked is an issue with the idea. I think it can work fine with joypads too. Admittedly the idea would take an actual lot of work to define where the other keys would go in relation to the one you accidentally rebind to up. On a gamepad it could rotate the dpad perhaps.
The main difference between how the 'bad game' was made and how I think it could be more authentically bad rather than a rage game, is that this onw is programmed badness. Whereas I think games can be bad due to programming good things that don't combine well and never get addressed or even considered or even tested!
you failed! why? you made the enemy red! thats too good game design!! you should take inspiration from this one flash game i played a while ago, where you were skydiving and had to dodge things. what did you have to dodge? planes? birds? no! clouds of course! there was literally zero visual indicator that would make your brain think thats what youre supposed to do. amazingly terrible game design.
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Imo Instead of making the enemy blank red, he should've just copy pasted an enemy image from Google
"Overall, the game was going absolutely terribly, so things were looking good" - BadGameDev 2022
Could this be in one of the most confusing sentences in history?
Average game devs nowadays.
@@LumiNexus ikr
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The worst game ever isn't just a game that you can't... play ?
So technically to make the worst game ever you could've just put a black screen and tadam !
In high school a few friends and I pranked a dude who was quite obnoxious about being a tech expert and "real gamer" by making up a fake game called "Temple Rumours". We asked him if he had heard of it and he pretended he had. He spent a few days thinking the game was real and trying to get his hands on it. In the end one of us even made a fake hard copy with boxart and everything, but when the disc was inserted the message "pwned" (it was the 2000s ok?) popped up.
So going by your standards Temple Rumours probably is the worst game ever.
but that's not a game, is it?
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The weather is pretty good today, isn't it ?
Technically, yes
Make a good video, no
@@pyrosyphon Yup lol
I can make an even worse game without trying to make the worst game. That's my fricking talent
At least you can make a game
Have you published any?
@@mjasterix1667 with today's tools even an ape like me can make a game
@@kailomonkey yea, only one
@@mjasterix1667 lmao
You forgot one pronciple : less is more, or in that case, more is less. You can make your game even crappier by *adding* poorly made details
I love how when you're walking, you're on the extreme side of the screen where you want to go, making it impossible to know what's next, and only makes you see the parts you already passed through, which is useless. Very bad game 10/10.
This is not a "bad game", it's just a troll game like Kaizo Mario tbh.
A bad game should be consistent with its features but frustrating. I even can imagine The Last Of Us to be more frustrating than your game if the Devs would've just cut the entire game in the middle of the story, or if Tetris had blocks that do not fit, or a Simulation Game that starts with everything unlocked but you lose progress with every levelup, or just beeing super slow in a shooter.
Still, good video. :)
This is no where near terrible enough. Every part of this game could be made worse.
Movement: Have noticeable 1 second delay between giving an input and it being acted on. Have small platforms that require precise controls, yet your player character is really slippery on top of them sometimes just not moving.
Story:What's worse than no story? Having a story with wasted potential. Make an opening cutscene with a really cool story premise. Then never deliver on it. Or recon it in the most disappointing way possible once you beat the first level like that entire starting sequence was just a dream and now your going to school, then just stop having a story. Make sure the opening with significantly better graphics than the rest of the game, unskippable, and with a really slow text speed, with walls of text.
Graphics: There's one major problem with your graphics. They aren't painful to look at. Make the graphics visually painful to look at. Be sure to have a bunch of background elements than blend in with the middle ground elements so you can't tell what's what. Make sure the player and enemies blend in with the background. If you aren't making Top Banana look like a masterpiece, your graphics aren't bad enough yet.
Level design: Here's one neat trick to make terrible level design, don't. Start with a minute long walk on a plane of nothing, and make a really difficult and precise platforming section at the end. But other than that just make whatever seems cool at the time, and don't playtest or think too hard about it. In fact just add in a bunch of mechanics and never playtest them. If the game doesn't crash your good.
Other: When you die have a long death jingle followed by it kicking you back to the menu screen. Where you have to watch the opening cutscene again. Have really long loading times for no reason. Make the music a loop of a sirren, then have an enemy that you have to listen for to dodge. Have all the sounds in the first level way louder than anything else in the game.
So Basically take all the bad stuff from sonic 06 and add them?
@@jackatjack2886 Pretty much, except you've got to be careful with what glitches you leave in the game. If you leave in too many glitches that are interesting or fun, you might accidentally let a few people enjoy your game through the coolness of the glitches alone.
That's what I'm talking about. Here's a guy that knows what a bad game is.
Gravity is for good games. The jump should make you go up at a steady rate then fall at the same rate. Ever played a scratch platformer? Things can get a lot worse.
*Flashbacks of messing with Scratch when I was in 4th grade having no clue what I was doing*
This knows how to get a sponsor. He litteraly explained why you should get throughout the half video without stopping making the actual video
RIP the people that skipped the sponsor.
You should make a game with too many controls like breathing and making your heart beat to survive.
Edit: you should also add a feature where you can randomly die of a brain aneurysm
Manual Samuel?
😂😂😂
sorry homie Battlefield was already on the 'making a worst game every gen' meta
wrong. u forgot CP2077. well. even tho it was buggy asf i still liked it
You should have added a sound option that didnt work, and a graphics option that would make the screen 10 different color blocks, optimize the game horribly, and have some of the coins reset the coin count, also you have to pay 15 cents for 10 seconds of game play
A few suggestions to make it even worse:
Make it so that the jump height and speed changes randomly occasionally
Make a terrible annoying five second music loop throughout the entire thing
have the very rare audio sometimes glitch out too in a multitude of ways like loudness, compression, etc
Give the background and ground graphics worse quality by compressing them too
Make the main characters arms and eyes misaligned with each other by just a few pixels, and well as the options on the main menu
Use completely different terrible fonts for the main menu too
And just have the player die randomly at times for no other reason
I think he already has 'player die randomly' covered. Could have an arbitrary hidden timer that starts at a randomised time though, with a time out message. Also send to the main menu when this happens or on other deaths because a level resetting quickly actually makes any platformer accessible to keep retrying. Make the menu have annoying options to go through to even start the game. If you have a save system sending you straight to the level you've reached, have it clear your save and start from scratch if you click through the menues too fast.
It's amazing how this is constructive criticism in the context
1- Make it so the camera wont follow the character. Instead, there should be keys to move the scene. That'd be horrible.
2- Add a game music which wont loop. Plays once and stops for rest of the game.
3- Add stutters when the character just about to do a critical and hard jump.
how to make the worst game ever....
take everything good; from every game you've ever played, mash them together with no rime or reason.
release a part done, but functioning version to a bunch of youtubers to get excited about and begin to promote
add one update that adds a ton of bugs, glitches and bad code, conflicting systems.
put it on steam with the promise of fixing said game...
then completely abandon the community with an 'I fixed it all up, don't worry, will be in unstable branch next week'
but you will never release another update to any branch....
You will carry on collecting the over priced amount you put on the game....
you don't need to understand how to make a good game to make a bad one...
every game is an experience. just give a bad experience
the character looks too cute. To make it even worse, the face should be badly drawn in paint. Also make the hitbox a different size than the sprite
The character sprite should just be a poorly trimmed jpg of a selfie.
Idea : Every second, the game has a 1% chance of randomly “crashing” and your entire progress is reset. Even if you are in level 2, you go all the way back to the start of level 1! This would make the game 10 times worse lol
Checkmate!
You delivered exactly what you set out to make, meaning you satisfied the expectations you set for yourself and your viewers, thus paradoxically making a good game out of a bad one.
When you said you made the worst game ever I was expecting you to make a 1:1 copy of literally any Ubisoft game.
I once made a platformer where jumping against a block to the left would launch you in the air because of weird collision detection. I probably chose precise collision detection and the sprite jumped multiple times in a row. And at the end you'd get in a rocket and it fell through the ground because of a double negative vertical speed.
For the coins, you could also require the player to pick up a specific amount to complete the level, so they can't just avoid them
Idea: Every time you *die* you have to *restart* the game and if you *fall* into the void *your stuck there* (you don‘t die)
I like Milanote, but it doesn't have flowcharts ._. - I wish it was made more for programming
1. mobile touch controls that you have to operate with a mouse
2. it's also inverted
3. the jump button is as far away from the movement circle as possible
4. the movement circle is actually a square
5. when you move your character then stop moving, the circle doesn't go back in the middle, so you've got to drag it around the screen to move
Bro these need to be made in Unity so I can mess around with the source codes lol
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“I made the worst game ever”
Me who doesn’t even know how to code: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you
I think there is atleast one more thing to do to make the chareter design even worse you need to add parts to it that don't even affect the game and all sorts of bad colors randomly put on it.
“man i sure wish i could find the worst game in existence”
helltaker:
Epik video dude keep up the Awesome work
Also, in order to make the game worse, just make the graphics worse! So bad that you can barely tell what is what. Also, have a weapon that doesn’t do anything at all! Have unavoidable hazards, deceptive enemies, unpredictable weapons, delayed controls, crappy color schemes that look like vomit and crap, as well as levels that are repeats of other levels. Have more levels because the more levels, the worse that it gets.
The effort that you have put into it, makes it a good game :)
Even worse ideas:
Add random flashing lights.
Add too many colourful textures (rainbows, stupid flags)
Add that you can’t die as if you forgot to add death.
A 'BadGameDev' making a badly developed game? Nice.
The fact that you had to use the enemy to pass the level is actually really cool and unique, sad that it had to be used in the worst game ever but hey, you gotta madden someone somehow
Great Video! but it looks like you failed in making the worst game Ever! since any game made by me is 10X more bad...
"Instead of coping with your non existent skill, just accept it" -me 5 minutes ago
I feel the worst game ever wouldn't even have a main menu :D Just straight into the action and have an enemy charge you right away.
I have gotten the best worst suggestions that everyone else suggested in my opinion.
Coin Fanfare - Every time you get a coin, it plays a "You Got A Coin!" fanfare. You can't move during this.
Unusual controls that the game tells you about, but makes it a pain to listen - Let me explain. The controls would be something like GCV(comma) instead of WASD. At the beginning of the game, it would tell you this but here's the thing: The volume changes drastically during the message so that you can barely hear the controls but everything else said is really loud. It'd sound like "*HELLO PLAYER!!!! YOUR CONTROLS ARE* ᵍ *FOR JUMPING*ᶜ *FOR GOING LEFT* ᵛ *FOR GOING DOWN??? AND* ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵃ *FOR GOING RIGHT!!!!!!*" This will force players to have to rapidly move the volume, most of the time failing.
Janky controls - On the subject of controls, why not make it so that players can't jump and move left-right at the same time, meaning they can't go diagonal.
Janky hitboxes - Enemy hitboxes would be bigger than they look and platform hitboxes would be bigger or smaller than they look.
Annoying, loud BGM - After the controls are said by the voice with the annoying volume changes, BGM would play that is repetitive, annoying, and loud.
New mechanic with no tutorial - In Level 2, there could be a new, unnecessarily complicated mechanic that isn't taught to the player.
Holding controls - Just like the controls randomly stop, sometimes when you go left or jump, it will hold that control for several seconds. Because you also can't jump and move left-right at the same time, you wouldn't be able to move if the game held jumping like that. This is actually a glitch in Scratch that could get annoying sometimes, and it'd be "good" to have it in this game.
0:40 Your first mistake. Planning. That's how you make good things.
One more idea for the coins. Have the counter start at 26 and then count down for no clear reason. Have the coin counter remain through death or beating levels. If the counter reaches 0 and you collect another coin, the game crashes due to lack of code to handle overflowing/underflowing for the counter. It'll be like it was never expected to drop below zero, but the code is so broken that it inevitably does anyway.
Excellent job on the bad camera placement, too. The player is always on the right side of the screen
My worst game would be a taxi hailing simulator where you have to hail a taxi but most of the time they pass you, you have 1 frame to succeed. If you do you have to take the taxi to your pregnant wife in the hospital but there's tons of traffic and the taxi driver recites the entire bee movie script with no punctuation, and when you get there he drops you off before you realize you forgot something so you have to repeat the process to get back to where you started, then you navigate your house to figure out what you forgot but I don't give you any hints, then you have to do the taxi thing one more time to finish the game
This basically just feels like 1 out of every 15 Flash games ever made. It might be beneficial to revisit this concept, but be more specific in what you're trying to achieve. Most unsatisfying game, most frustrating game, etc.
Video bucket for badgamedev
1: I paid fiver game developers to make the same game
2: I made the same game in 1 day, 1 hour, and 10 minutes
3: I remade (popular game/usually minecraft) with some gimmick
Glad you did something somewhat new for this one though.
the worst game has ads every time you win, fail, do something, just makes it unplayable
I suggest making it worse by adding the credits to the starting screen, but it can't be clicked on and jumps away to a random spot when you try to click on it.
tbh meme earrape sound is FAR worse than having no sound.
It would be worse if you made it that instead of the player moving, the whole entire ground and sky just moves.
imagine playing smash bros and when you move your character, they stay still but they are still moving on the island
"I made the worst game ever"
Mobile game devs: "Are you challenging me?"
you forgot the a feature in your worst game;
a working store with items that dont work and cost excessive amounts of money
Where are the microtransactions and the always online drm?
These are must haves for the worst game ever!
Thanks for the Milanote! I'm using it to organize my game project and its helping get everything straightened out. =)
I wanna propose a challenge, the worst game ever, that's still a complete game.
No deliberately broken mechanics like controls just turning off, no deliberate game breaking bugs, it has to pass as a game not just a broken prototype
badgamedev: *uploads this vid*
my games: look what he needs to mimic a fraction of our power!
One good way to make the story worse is to have a big block of text on the screen of really shitty writing that you will need to take a full 45 seconds-1 minute to read which pops up before each level, but you also need to wait 2 minutes before you can close the text, and this text always shows up before a level starts.
Props for actually using the sponsor in the video to show off the good parts of it instead of relegating it to a random small part of the video
He basically did this with Fiverr sponsor too.
Cloud should strike you down occasionally, it doesnt even have to be animated, you'd just randomly restart
"im gonna hop on game maker"
Ad in 1..
"DO YOU MY DEAR VIEWER HAVE AN INSTREST IN MAKING VIDEO GAMES-"
Ideas to make it worse
1.you randomly die
2. Your jump sometimes makes you go through the ground and die
3.if you move in the first 10 secs of restarting or starting a new level you get rickrolled and die
4.holes that if you fall in you can’t jump out
5. Fake restart button in pause menu (but the quit is real)
6. Really crappy backround like purple up orange next to it the green next to the orange 🤮
7.if you tap the fake restart button the a amogus guy twerks :)
8. The title should be unreadable like opsisiuejenwh on top :|
9.a control menu that takes you out of the app
10.the character should be a uu like a butt
Well that’s crazy and enough
Alright.
Listen here.
Make every level as long, boring and repetitive as possible.
A gate at the end of a level has only a 0.01% chance of letting you pass. Before it opens (or most likely doesn't), a 20 second cutscene plays. Every. Time. After the cutscene plays, you can no longer die or proceed in the level, you gotta restart. You boot up the game again, and would you look at that, the game has no save files and the gate is all the way to level 5.
Months pass and you finally get the 0.01% chance. You advance to level 6, and... nothing. The level is just empty, flat ground. You move and move and move to the right, until you reach the edge. it's been half an hour, and you find a sign that says "the other way
Idea for worse:
make the character shy and the longer you take the less it listens to commands and suddenly stops/ vanishes
You forgot to make it confusingly elaborate and nearly impossible to solve so much so that it ends up taking thirteen years to find everything in the game.
How to make the worst game
1.Add a killing block on the spawn point
2.Spam cringe memes
3.spam monster
4.pay first to play
5.bunch of ads.
I was expecting the player to just stay in place, I wasn't expecting them to just keep moving in the last direction you went, that's far worse.
Ideas: give the controls a half second delay, add 5 second-long background music, and a 10 second black screen every time you die.
Wow! You're Really Living Up To Your Channel Name! 👏 :D
Milanoye is abselutely fantastic, thank you for it gamedev and thank you milanote for sponsoring him
this guy never played "Miner Ultra Adventures"
the worst brazilian game ever
Interesting experiment. I've seen people try to do this with RPGs for decades.
Thing about making intentionally bad RPGs is that it all comes down to the combat mechanics. If the game is bad because of its terrible graphics, audio, and writing choices but the combat is also so easy you basically automatically win, it's a funny comedy game. If the game is bad in all the same ways but the combat is heavily stacked against you with overwhelming odds/RNG to the point where it's impossible to win even basic random encounters, you don't get to see most of the badness so it's a lot worse but somehow prevents you from accessing how bad it truly is.
Missed opportunity with the story. The worst game doesn't have no story. The worst game has a BAD story. Something like this: "Bloke the Block wants to reach his house. Blake the Red and his gang wants to stop him. Blink the White Block has to rescue his girlfriend. Black the Red Bloke has kidnapped Bloke's sister!" And then, midway through the second level, which I assume is still unfinished: "You're almost there Blinky! Your long lost son Blake is waiting for you!"
Confusing? Cues were taken from every bad story I've ever seen in a video game. Start the story one way, retcon it midway through, pay no attention to tone or setting, constantly shift motivations and, if possible, make the protagonist as unlikeable as possible. If done correctly, the player will actually be angry by the end of it.
BadGameDev: I am going to make the worst game ever.
Me: Just create a block and that's it.
More ways in which you can make the game worse:
- Shitty and obnoxious stock music that can't be muted. Or just earrape audio in general.
- Generally terrible controls, consisting of noticable input lag, tanky movement or slippery movement. Maybe even have a control scheme that demands highly uncomfortable amounts of finger gymnastics, such as Page Up and Page Down to move left and right and Home to jump.
- Inconsistent graphics that either look very basic or hurt to look at. Or just plain gross, like a shitty MS Paint drawing.
- Parts of levels that have long stretches of absolutely nothing
- Have a story that is extremely nonsensical and given through boring exposition. Also complete the game so you can have a very shitty ending that amounts to "A winner is you!"
- Make the game randomly crash
- Have invisible enemies or other obstacles.
- Have screen obstructions such as fog or liquid splatter randomly appear.
- Have sudden shifts in gameplay with no warning, such as a sudden instant-fail stealth level.
If you wanna make a bad game, do these
• make the whole thing completely unplayable (e.g. Janky Movement and physics, a good example of this is Hello Neighbor)
• Make the quality the lowest png type quality, I'm talking watermarked png images as assets
• Extension to the one at top, Make the background and foreground graphics mix, so it's hard to distinguish which objects you can collide with
• If the game has enemies, make the hitbox Shit, as in, Make it big as frick
• Make the Goal of the game as blurry and vauge as possible so the player doesnt know what they're supposed to be doing
• Make the whole thing as Laggy as possible
• What was that? Bugs and glitches? Naaaaah leave them be. What? The Players are using it to their advantage? aw hell nah, fix it
And that's how you make the worse game possible
Right as he said the game mechanics would randomly stop working and has non solid things, I realized that would make the game good because it had actual mechanics
"If your game hare made by VOODOO Games,then aren't bad"
-a sabius
The poor main character looks like he’s trying he’s best while stuck in an eternal hell
First 15 seconds:
Everytime EA makes a multiplayer game
And when there is a final level but right as you get to it, it asks you to pay $5.00 to continue...
idea: a very long level with nothing but almost invisible and tiny platforms over a softlock
To make this even worse there needs to be annoying music that can't be lowered and then random ad pop-ups that appear in the middle of the screen.
It's still better than 90% of mobile games, no ads every 5 seconds, no horrible pay to win options and etc...
How to make the worst game: (Don't do this)
Make the player go through a repetitive time consuming autoscroller, followed by a very risky section with small platforms that change directions randomly above a bottomless pit, and finally a room full of doors where only one door leads to the goal and all other doors lead to death. No checkpoints, so you always respawn at the very beginning with the autoscroller.
In the advertisement, show a very well designed game so players expectations are high.
Even Bad Game need a Good Planning.
Man you should do the bad from the start, thinking it's bad 😔
I actually need to thank you for putting the app in the app un the description I needed it
Should've added
A micro transaction that is required midway through level 2 that cost like 4 buck to complete it
Make it so clicking to buy it crashes the game on occasion
Anytime you close out of the pop-up or click buy it resets the level
Put an invisible wall right before the popup so if they move it instantly triggers it
Add an annoying and cheerful ring when it pops up everytime
Make sure that the level two stays unfinished
I make bad games every project, and entirely accidentally.
planning? i just play the final product in my head and see what it's not made yet
Imagine if this game had difficulty options; where easy is playable but with bad features, medium is sometimes playable and sometimes not, and hard being barely playable due to the intentional buggy mess and more bad stuff keep appearing out of nowhere; like that falling thru the ground and teleporting back to start for no reason.
I'm glad you didn't take it as far as using comic sans for the menu text. That font has been the butt of too many jokes.
Why this is not the worst game ever:
1.the mouvement are pretty smooth
2.The ground has a texture
3.The player has a face and arms
4.There are coins
5.There is a coin counter
6.There are a lot of features(spike, trap, enemy, jump on enemy.
7....
The grass and dirt textures look way too good for the worst game ever. If you scribble some random colored pixels in MS Paint and just move left to right without any challenge and the game crashes at the end, that would be the worst game ever. Just no effort whatsoever and it's barely even a game.
It lacks jumps that require pixel perfect timing to make it. Also, it should be possible to get so thoroughly stuck that you have to Alt-F4 the game, which of course will cause you to lose all your progress.
you could also have a really long loading screen at the start
To make it worse, if you die on level 2, you go all the way back to level1