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== Video Games ==

* Sometimes developers can do this to themselves. In the Hard Rain campaign of ''[[Left 4 Dead]] 2'', the players must navigate an abandoned sugar refinery. During development, Valve found that there were an unusually high number of Witches spawning in the zone. They like the glitch, and made it canon that Witches are attracted to the scent of sugar.

** Similarly, during the development of [[Half Life]] 2: Episode 1, a small joke ended up in the game due to a glitch. During a scene where the player and [[Action Girl|Alyx]] are about to be thrown over a chasm by [[Badass Automaton|Dog]], Alyx reassures the player by saying that, as a robot, he has done the math. Then she quietly asks him if he has done the math. During playtesting, right after she had said it, a glitch caused Dog's head to shake. The playtester assumed this was supposed to happen and laughed at the perceived joke. Valve quickly made that not a glitch.

*** Not a glitch. Dog's idle animation is for him to shake his head, and it timed perfectly with the question.

** Another theory: the name "Developer's System" only came about because of a misinterpretation of what was said in an interview about how easy the DS was to develop for, but the internet took the quote and ran with it until suddenly it became the name many people thought DS originally stood for.

* Although ''[[Betrayal at Krondor]]'', an RPG based on ''[[The Riftwar Cycle]]'', was produced and made with Feist's blessings and under his watchful eye, the in-game texts and the story itself were in fact ''not'' written by him, as the common misconception is. Neal Hallford takes the credit for coming up with the story, which was later canonised by Feist in a [[Novelization]].

* ZUN, creator of ''[[Touhou]]'', is notorious for this, being both highly aware of the gargantuan fandom that has arisen around the games as well as equally willing to add things he likes. Probably the most famous examples both involve characters from ''The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'', Hong Meiling and two unnamed mid-bosses:

*** Meat, Blaze and Skarlet have a similar story.

** The revelation of Noob Saibot being {{spoiler|1=the specter form of the original Sub-Zero from MK1}} was actually the result of a Midway employee [https://web.archive.org/web/20110731014256/http://highervoltage.net/mb/showpost.php?p=400646&postcount=12 taking suggestions from a fan].

** There is also the case of the [[Dragon Quest I|first game's]] villain, the Dragonlord. He goes down pretty quickly in the Japanese version; but then his [[Dragon Their Feet|pet Superdragon attacks you.]] The western translation had him turning into this [[One-Winged Angel|final form.]] Later depictions in ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' have this be the Dragonlord's true form.

** In an inverse "developers doing it to themselves" crossed with PAL Bonus and some psuedo-[[Recursive Import]], the English localizations of the games tend to have this effect on the later Japanese rereleases. Much like the Dragonlord example, games that come West get a graphics/sprite overhaul that is usually ported back to Japanese rereleases, with a very specific case of this being ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' giving Ortega a proper sprite and a proper opening sequence.

*** Skyrim abandoned the keychain in name but there is a section just for keys.

* ''[[Minecraft]]'' had beta 1.8 leaked to the public early by mistake. Instead of trying to rectify the problem, Mojang decided to have pre-release versions of the next update revealed to the public from now on in the form of "snapshots". The results were twofold: players can get a sneak peek at new features and bug fixes while Mojang gets feedback from the players about the snapshot so they can fix whatever bugs there are before making the snapshot official.

* ''[[Might and Magic: Swords of Xeen]]'' started out as fanmade freeware mod introduced as an enhancement to ''World of Xeen''; it was eventually authorized and published by New World Computing and 3DO as an "unofficial" bonus game, and was included in official compilations and re-releases.