Fun & Crazy Games · 21

Chaos feels fairer when recovery is quick. Players will forgive an absurd failure much faster if the game gets them back to causing trouble immediately. The category's past supplies the companion fact: Game jams encourage strange ideas because tiny deadlines make safe, enormous designs impossible; a joke mechanic can survive simply because there is no time to replace it. Game-jam logic begins with 'what if' and frequently ends with a goat, a hammer or a suspicious appliance.