I think it's helpful to avoid using "good" and "bad" or other value judgement descriptors altogether, and stick to "effective" or "ineffective" for the project's goals. If you can suss out what the intended outcome or goals are for the piece, you can use how well you're approaching that as a gauge

Like, to the point that "what's a game you love with terrible design? How would you fix it?" is a question I ask in interviews

I've been feeling this for decades now. maybe attention spans have gotten shorter irdk, but sometimes when I hear about this I'm like "have you tried being more interesting??"

Oh Plutonia kicks ass, I honestly like it more than Doom 2's campaign lol

Thanks Joe for writing the post that gave me the motivation I needed lol bsky.app/profile/joew...