I think you may be referencing the same game he is. Wolfenstein

@Dutch Game Garden please pin this comment 📌 And thank you Jason Tu for commenting this. It helped a lot.

You are doing the work of angels. Well done, and thank you.

Thank you for the timestamps!

Thank you for gathering the info!

What?

nah

@TheGameUniverse yes

I've just been browsing through game math and concept videos for about a month as I work on a top down shooter in good ol VB6 (because making the game is just for relaxation and VB6 being my first IDE back in the day is my go-to comfort zone). I had been adding in more and more forms of feedback to the player, such as screen shake, adjusting brightness around muzzle flashes with alpha blending, moving the player sprite based on the "weight" or recoil of individual weapons, finding ways to move it change the sprite to indicate the amount of "sway" or inaccuracy you'll have due to recoil or walking/running, variable blood spray based on damage received, shading the screen red when receiving damage, etc... and then I realized that even if I'm probably the only person who is going to play this, all of this output could be jarring or distracting to someone and there should be an option to limit or disabled things within reason. The game as it is now, is fast and chaotic and requires that you try to plan ahead for the most likely scenario as well as possibly contingencies, and my thinking was that all of this feedback would be useful to send you messages about specific things without necessarily needing to track everything on the screen. But without all the feedback, is it still playable, like can you still understand and keep up with what's going on? That's where I'm not now, deciding if all the feedback is necessary or a distraction. And if it's a distraction, is that bad, or does the overwhelming amount tell you that you fucked up and need to get out of the situation?