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I don't play video games, but if someone created one that was entirely glitches like this, I might start.

Check out Goat Simulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Simulator

"The game, initially developed as a joke prototype from an internal game jam and shown in an early alpha state in YouTube videos, was met with excitement and attention, prompting the studio to build the game into a releasable state while still retaining various non-breaking bugs and glitches to maintain the game's entertainment value."

It's full of awkward physics, I sort of love it. E.g. goats go up ladders by walking straight into them and continuing to walk with absolutely no other changes... so of course the body physics get a bit excited http://i.imgur.com/lNfzaDj.gif

You might enjoy speedrunning, especially older games like those for the Nintendo 64 or the original Playstation.

In addition, there's the Super Mario 64 0x A Button challenge, an effort to beat the game while avoiding the use of its main mechanic. It's not a speedrun, but the themes of exploiting every glitch possible is the same. It's also the source of the infamous "0.5x A Presses" video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A

Several of his videos are about doing the same star with 0 A presses using a faster strat, although that might be only for the sake of the people TAS-ing the strats

Skate 3 has tons of glitches, or at least a few good glitches that keep on giving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaUR6u8nHoM

You can launch yourself into the air (100s of feet), run inside a dumpster to move it, drop through the floor to start falling from the sky, booby-trap a trashcan so it flies out of no-where and hit you upside the head, walk up an invisible ramp... it's fun.

Wow that was exactly what I hoped existed! I especially liked the one where you end up beneath reality, hurtling sideways past yourself into a never-ending void.

Ending up in the ground a little bit causes a small bounce. Ending up in the ground a lot causes a large bounce. Combine that with poor collision code in tunnels...and well...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMp-pzlwzlE

Playing any Bethesda game on release is a gold mine.

You'll probably enjoy The Stanley Parable then. If you haven't heard of it, I recommend you buy it and avoid actually reading about what it is. If you don't enjoy it I'll refund you myself ;)

Check out Star Citizen, it's all terrible glitches and it's also unlikely to ever be a finished, playable game.

You might enjoy this reddit sub dedicated to game bugs: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamePhysics/

Also this sub that highlights small, easy to overlook game details: https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingDetails/

Fallout 4, which has many mods, comes pretty close. My favorite example is WeirdistBuilds, who completed the game without killing a single enemy:

https://kotaku.com/guy-beats-fallout-4-without-killing-anyon...

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