Learned about the "Wuselfaktor" yesterday when talking about Settlers II for @dosgameclub

It's a German concept that describes how interesting and nice a game is to look at without the player doing anything in particular.

It's especially relevant for simulation type games, where your screen is filled with a bunch of characters that are each working on their own task.

Settlers II has a very high Wuselfaktor, but so do games like Lemmings or Transport Tycoon.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuselfaktor

Wuselfaktor – Wikipedia

@Tijn what a *great* word. i vote for a mandatory corruption of in the english language, because it's 100% what i want out of games

at one point i made a website where it was nothing but recordings of game scenes with high wuselfaktor:

https://vga256.com

it still works in safari. not sure about chrome/firefox anymore

256 worlds

@vga256 @Tijn This is an amazing website! I might use it for ambience. ❤️