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Fun & Crazy Games · 3

The funniest controls often create partial competence: the player improves enough to form ambitious plans, then remains clumsy enough for those plans to collapse spectacularly. The category's past supplies the companion fact: Intentional control awkwardness is a rare design choice because responsiveness is usually sacred; comedy games break that rule on purpose and make the struggle itself the point. Game-jam logic begins with 'what if' and frequently ends with a goat, a hammer or a suspicious appliance.