Discussion Those of you who make your own games for fun, have you ever made a game with joke items?

[LegoTekFan486]

I'm getting started in Godot, going through some online tutorials. I was just curious if any of you made any games with some kind of "prank" or "joke" item. Bonus points if the player could drop, sell or disable the item if they didn't find it amusing or got tired of it.

 

[Aeacus]

I was just curious if any of you made any games with some kind of "prank" or "joke" item.

These are commonly known as Easter Eggs.

One memorable one that i just recalled is in the Lego: Lord of the Rings PC game, where you can unlock (collect) secret item named Mithril Disco Phial. And once you equip it, all NPCs around you start dancing and great song starts playing.

Presentation with song:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ7tn3r8ro0


Most Lego games actually have many such fun jokes and Easter Eggs in them.
And all Lego games also have "cheats" in them, that you can earn, unlock and enable/disable at your leisure. Like earn 10x the studs, invincibility, 8-bit music etc.

So, what you're asking, is actually quite common in video game industry.

 

[USAFRet]

So, what you're asking, is actually quite common in video game industry.

And even in regular software.

Excel had a small Mars flight sim.
In MS Word, in the list of developers/contributors, if you scrolled to the end, there was "You". As well as a pinball game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products

 

[Eximo]

Diablo II, there was The Diggler a unique Dirk. Which is a fictional porn star in Boogie Nights named after the character Dirk Diggler.

I'm sure there are plenty in WoW but none come to mind. Plenty of normal Easter eggs and references to pop culture though. I laughed out loud at "The goggles! They do nothing!" which was a Simpsons reference.

And there are many, many games that have special funny or whacky equipment. Mr. Toots from Red Faction Armageddon has been copied a lot into other games.

 

[Aeacus]

Oh, many games also include pranks (some funny ones while other are game breaking), but those are a form of DRM.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avtHAmz6js


So, games can have many forms of jokes/pranks in them. Easter Egg that is just some secret message/item, additional features to help player move along (e.g legal cheat options in Lego games) or those that mock the players who have a bug in the moral code.