> 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.)

I spent quite a long time enjoying playing against some basic AI I wrote for 
a racing game once.  The AI was quite basic, essentially following a set 
path "roughly", and having other input from the location of other people 
nearby.  After I had tweaked the power that the AI had, it was quite fun to 
race against them.  In the same game, usually when I was meant to be testing 
out some other feature, I usually ended up doing lap after lap trying to 
beat my best lap time :-)

I also made a very simple 2D game a long time ago where you had to maneuver 
an articulated lorry (semi truck) to make deliveries at various stops 
without hitting the scenery.  That was pretty fun to play, and taught me 
that it's far easier to reverse with longer trailers than shorter ones :-)

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