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A feature added for no other reason than to draw management attention and be removed, thus avoiding unnecessary changes in other aspects of the product.
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This started as a piece of Interplay corporate lore. It was well known that producers (a game industry position, roughly equivalent to PMs) had to make a change to everything that was done. The assumption was that subconsciously they felt that if they didn’t, they weren’t adding value.

The artist working on the queen animations for Battle Chess was aware of this tendency, and came up with an innovative solution…

Duck. Brilliant.