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yes. Under the hood they manage to craft experience with as little of programming knowledge.

Look into Yandere Simulator, Undertale. There are videos explaining the horrible code practices but those are stellar experience

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What about all the games that never got finished (despite being fun) because the designer gave up on their development?

I'll dig more into it. I did a quick search on Yandere Simulator, and it suggests that the terrible code and assets that aren't optimized is then impacting performance of the game, that it's laggy. This person might benefit from higher quality code, no? Someone who has a talent for making games, but just can't get there technically.

I'd guess this might be one of the videos you were referring to, for others who are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXotP-9LcDY

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