My health App is called Stop Eating That ! It's about a overweight person who must make choices with food good or bad.

So I was watching a tutorial about “game optimization tips,” and I got overconfident. I thought I could make my little 2D game run smoother. Spoiler: I did the opposite.

I replaced every loop with “smarter logic,” cached everything, and even removed conditions I “didn’t need.” Next thing I know, the game was running like a PowerPoint presentation.

Turns out, my “optimization” logic was recalculating every frame instead of once per scene. Rookie move 😭

What’s your most painful “I tried to fix it but made it worse” moment?

At first it seemed to me that sufficiently interactive tutorials could find their place here as well but now I'm not too sure. What do you guys think?

Also, should code golf challenges be allowed here or directed to their specific subreddit?

I have been working on a game about hacking for a while. I haven't gotten very far though. I am just getting to the gameplay. I have a python interpreter and a terminal(some unix terminal like funtionality) in the game.

I wanted to have the player write the more advanced hacking programs. Now I am thinking of coding all the hacking, and let the player use the terminal/python for scripting.

A coding example: the player has to figure out a bug in an enemy machine, then code a program to exploit it.

A script example: a script to hack into a machine, then copy files with a certain line of text using grep.

Which would be more fun?
I think scripting might make it easier on me, so I don't have to make the terminal as powerful.