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the proper way to communicate this, imo, is to exit as soon as the button is hit, and then on the home screen show a subtle toast or auto-dismissing box saying something like “your progress has been saved”.

ultimately it’s an “FYI” thing, not a “are you sure?” thing

If a user thinks it’s possibly a destructive action (since it is in many other games!) & hits the exit button, I think they’re actually much more likely to skim the confirmation dialog (“are you sure? yada yada”) and come away thinking it IS destructive. (I did this with the Runeterra example here)

Communicating to the user that it’s a nondestructive action is definitely an important task, but this is a backwards way of doing it. If a user has already hit the back button, they’ve already expressed intent to leave — you don’t need to stop them & say “are you sure?” if there’s no danger

Ball X Pit, a fantastic game and a recent obsession:

turning this into a thread to shame (usually otherwise great!) games whenever I run across this particular pet peeve.

first off, Legends of Runeterra:

*takeshi

i love how no one before 2022 ever realized that the fundamental model of the internet was giving stuff away for free until it gained enough traction to insert ads into

but also, as a content creator, it seems so obvious that you need to create content that provides some kind of unique, valuable service to have any chance of it landing and finding an audience. variety steaming seems like such hubris, because it’s betting on a personality being that valuable service

almost all the videos/podcasts I consume are because they offer something specific or valuable: information, interesting analysis, a critical review, a novel perspective, etc.

I can’t wrap my head around watching stuff just to hang out, when there’s so much incredibly rich stuff out there

“katsuki” funkopop vibes

it seems like CR still messed up a ton here because these new subs AREN’T user-configurable, so it’s currently a downgrade in every aspect.

but if they fix that & do enable it, there are legitimate accessibility concerns with hardcoded subs that standardized (user-configurable) captions address

The amount of time between the announcement and release of Metroid Prime 4 is longer than the amount of time between the announcement of Metroid Prime 1 and the release of Metroid Prime 3.