Surely most of us have screen-peeked at some point in our lives. Or maybe in a desperate moment you’ve gone further and downloaded an aimbot or wallhack or the like? Maybe you just cheat in singleplayer games thanks to Cheat Engine or console commands or IDSPISPOPD? That doesn’t really count of course, but we’ll pretend it does so that those who aren’t despicable cheaters can provide an answer as well.
Have you ever been a dirty dang cheat in a game?
Here are our answers, plus a few from our forum.
Stevie Ward: One could argue if you’ve ever used a guidebook, googled a clue or had a sofa buddy say “Check that weird rock over there” that is, in some form, cheating. In reality a good new-player experience, decent in-game tutorials, and budgets for voiceover clue prompts on 2nd/3rd tries of things (“We need to try the other boxes!“) are hard to do well, so googling clues is the norm.
The other side to this is some designers want their games to be challenging. Some designers want you…