I think ima have the next million dollar game

The image displays a screenshot of a simplistic, nonsensical pseudocode written in a text editor, supposedly for a video game. The first four lines set standard basic game control mappings: WASD for walking, spacebar for jumping, C for crouching, and left mouse button for attacking. Subsequent lines make absurdly over-simplified assignments for complex game features: 'more people = yes', 'hackers = no', 'graphics = very good', 'bugs = off', and 'ending = insane af', ending with 'end' and a final line 'type shi'. Large bold text overlaid at the bottom reads 'scripting is so easy af'. The humor comes from mocking the common naive perspective of inexperienced people who view the complex, labor-intensive work of game development and coding as trivially easy, assuming high-quality, bug-free, popular games can be created with a few simple lines of non-functional fake code.

Dialogue

wasd = walk
space = jump
c = crouch
lmb = attack
more people = yes
hackers = no
graphics = very good
bugs = off
ending = insane af
end
type shi

Text content

scripting is so easy af

Overview

The image displays a screenshot of a simplistic, nonsensical pseudocode written in a text editor, supposedly for a video game. The first four lines set standard basic game control mappings: WASD for walking, spacebar for jumping, C for crouching, and left mouse button for attacking. Subsequent lines make absurdly over-simplified assignments for complex game features: 'more people = yes', 'hackers = no', 'graphics = very good', 'bugs = off', and 'ending = insane af', ending with 'end' and a final line 'type shi'. Large bold text overlaid at the bottom reads 'scripting is so easy af'. The humor comes from mocking the common naive perspective of inexperienced people who view the complex, labor-intensive work of game development and coding as trivially easy, assuming high-quality, bug-free, popular games can be created with a few simple lines of non-functional fake code.

Origin notes

This meme originates from Reddit, where it was posted under the title 'I think ima have the next million dollar game'. It pokes fun at people without game development or programming experience who drastically underestimate the effort required to build a successful, polished video game, falsely believing simple surface-level feature settings are all that is needed to create a hit product.

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