honestly I hate âcan you pet the dog?!?â not for any of the common reasons but because it was initially interesting as a proposition of âcan you interact with the world in a way that is not within the primary mechanical loopâ and that very quickly fell away to being âwell now any indie developer making a game has to have a pet the dog button or theyâre going to get lettersâ
One of my dream projects has an NPC with a dog, and if you try to pet it, the owner tells you not to do that. If you try again, it bites you and you take damage. I want to do this entirely because I genuinely believe that this would make me feel way more grounded in the world than any âclick button to see cute animationâ would ever do, and also it would be really funny to have a game where people lose their runs because they tried to pet a dog they were told not to pet





















