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# What is the worst game you could ever design? Popcap designer has some ideas.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/what-worst-game-you-could-ever-design-popcap-designer-has-some-ideas/
- Published: 2012-12-05T14:30:14.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:18.000Z
- Description: Scott Jon Siegel made the rounds of the social games bubble at Zynga and Playdom, so he’s no stranger to some strange or terrible ideas. Over the weekend, he started the Bad Games tumblr in an attempt to design the worst games ever. “I’d rather make bad games now than good games eventuall,” he expla
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

[Scott Jon Siegel](http://numberless.net/?ref=killscreen.com) made the rounds of the social games bubble at Zynga and Playdom, so he’s no stranger to some strange or terrible ideas. Over the weekend, he started the Bad Games tumblr in an attempt to design the worst games ever. “I’d rather make bad games now than good games eventuall,” he explains. That’s the kind of thinking that made Silicon Valley great so we applaud his spirit.

They include Dancer in the Dark, a game about injuring yourself in a lightless room, and Dropkicking, a contest to back the most consecutive unsucessful Kickstarter projects in a row. This one was my favorite:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/hey_bale_hey.png)

Alright then.