An index of tropes about games not working as intended. Can sometimes be caused by using Cheat Codes. May cross over with Not the Way It Is Meant to Be Played if the player can gain an advantage in the game by using them.
See also Idiot Programming Index.
Tropes:
Sub-indexes:
- A.I. Breaker: A technique that can easily defeat enemy AI.
- Artificial Stupidity: AI that doesn't work.
- Ascended Glitch: A glitch that is later turned into a legitimate game mechanic.
- Auto-Incorrect: Autocorrect correcting a word that didn't need to be corrected
- Dead Character Walking
- Disc-One Nuke: An item or character that, given early on, allows the player to easily breeze through the game.
- Dummied Out: Data that didn't make it to the actual game, but still can be accessed somehow.
- Dungeon Bypass
- Game-Breaker: A technique, character, or item that allows easy victory in a game.
- Game-Breaking Bug: A bug that can make the game unplayable.
- Gameplay Derailment: A way to play the game the developers didn't intend.
- Glitch Entity: A character created through a flaw in the game programming.
- Good Bad Bugs: Bugs that are either amusing or useful for the player.
- Healing Loop: Either the player being forced to heal, and the enemy's attacks keeping their HP low, or an enemy that constantly heals, making the fight incredibly tedious.
- Kill Screen
- Loads and Loads of Loading: Excessive amount of loading screens,
- Lord British Postulate: A character that is meant to be unkillable...is killable.
- Minus World: An entire level that's full of glitches.
- Not the Intended Use
- Obvious Beta: A game with several noticeable bugs or broken features.
- Overflow Error: A bug caused by a variable overrunning programmatic limits.
- Perpetual Beta: A game that is constantly being developed, and still
- Player-Exclusive Mechanic: The AI doesn't use a feature that the player can use, even if it should.
- Porting Disaster: A port is noticeably inferior to the original game.
- Scrappy Mechanic: A poorly thought out or programmed mechanic in a video game.
- Script Breaking
- Sequence Breaking:
- Stats Dissonance: Game stats don't match up with actual gameplay.
- Wallbonking: AI characters constantly walking into walls, thanks to poor pathfinding.
