Foolish Bonus

While reconstructing Sneech I’ve been playing the original version on an emulator (WinUAE), making notes of features, sampling sounds, and generally reminiscing. Once in a while I come across something I’d completely forgotten about! It’s weird when it happens, but this week I rediscovered the “Foolish Bonus”…

Bonus money and points were awarded to players that did really badly… What fools!

This was one of the many places where the game rewarded players that were not doing so well. This is an obvious one, but there were less obvious “balancing acts” elsewhere. Its an important thing to do in a League that may last for an hour or so. You don’t want players to give up hope, so you give them a little reward, that may lead to a better match next time!

This could be a regular feature on the Blog; as I already have some more features we need reminding of!