To anyone who has written a game...

Question: Did you enjoy playing it yourself? Games I wrote, I knew too much 
about to enjoy playing them myself, other than testing they were right. 
Indeed, sometimes the more I knew about a game, the less fun it was. (Like, 
once I learned the production rules in detail for M.U.L.E., it was less 
exciting.)

Premise: Infinite spawning of enemies on a level leads to less replayability 
in a complex shooter game with lots of ways to win. This is because the 
player cannot set arbitrary goals such as "clear the level using nothing but 
the wrench/crowbar/whatever".   How fun would Thief be if the loot spawned 
randomly when you weren't in the room?

Minor curiosity: Bioshock - is it qualitatively different on different 
difficult levels, like Thief is, or is it just a rebalancing of hit-points 
and damage levels?

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Insanity is a small city on the western
   border of the State of Mind.

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