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Christmas Unicorn title for you.

that would be nice

I thought Non died or something.

If there's anything I absolutely hate, it's unprofessional "indie" platformers with nothing innovative or original, save the "witty humor". It's even worse when it had intentionally lazy art and artificial difficulty. If you really want to make a game, but can't "program" or "draw", then that's fine. Write a script out for a game, and find a few programmers and designers willing to work on it with you. Even with a stale idea for a game, proper development will make it considerably better than other "indie" platformers.

Indie game ♥♥♥♥ list off the top of my head (DO NOT BE THIS):
Super Meat Boy - Artificial difficulty at its finest
Fez
I Wanna Be The Guy - Artificial difficulty novelty item for idiots
Closure - hi i just learned what vectoring is here look a physics puzzle
Fez
VVVVVV - no
Fez
Fez
Fez

Fez was unforgivable

you forgot fez at testing day

that ♥♥♥♥ kept crashing on everyone yet slops ate it anyway.

I call bull♥♥♥♥. Aside from one boss, Super Meat Boy was fair. Just because you don't like the controls doesn't make them artificial difficulty, they're precise. Artificial difficulty would be if the controls randomly switched or hazards you had no way of foreseeing killed you, and SMB has none of that.

Yeah, SMB had puzzles and ♥♥♥♥, no platforms collapsing without a warning

Because the hospital level was completely AYEEE OHHHH KAYYY.
yea nah

by the way I am 20 today

That's not what artificial difficulty means; controls aren't the problem. The problem is the ridiculously convoluted platforms that require extraneous sequences with pretty much no acceptable margin of error. In trial and error games, you have to make challenging platforms that don't require over-exertion of muscle memory. This is a more cognitive thing that could be discussed for a long time though. Brain function in gaming, etc.

It's not artificial difficulty, that's actual difficulty. Being convoluted or 'too hard' doesn't make it not real difficulty. The difference is in consistency, things in Super Meat Boy behave one way every time, so you can anticipate what will happen next. Artificial difficulty would be IWTBTG where you have no way of knowing what's gonna kill you next and by the time it happens it's too late to react half the time.

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Over-exertion of muscle memory is artificial difficulty, and not healthy. The convolution and extraneousness makes you over-exert your muscle memory, secondarily being artificial difficulty. Games can be consistent and still have artificial difficulty. In fact, this is a major part of the artificial difficulty of the early generation arcade games. Games being "too hard" in it of itself does not mean it's artificially difficult, good examples of this are Dark Souls, and Osu!. Super Meat Boy doesn't fit into the criteria because again, it pushes your brain past its comfort zone (in the sense that it's not good for you) (going out of your comfort zone is okay for other things)

It doesn't push my brain too hard, maybe you just can't handle it?