"Our Pixel range has a fast easy-to-find fingerprint reader on the back. It's possible to unlock the phone as you're removing it from your pocket without even trying. How can we improve that?"
"How about we hide a slow, unreliable one somewhere under the screen. You can't feel or see where it is. When you do find the right spot, it'll illuminate your finger with the light of a thousand suns. Then, it might unlock the phone, if you're lucky."
If you wait long enough you can sometimes win the battle is wills and it goes out, meaning that the problem has fixed itself. Or that the bulb also now needs repairing.
Corridor Digital mentioned them recently in one of their videos and had a 5-minute conversion on what the correct term was before finding that Wikipedia page.
I guess you can look at it from two sides (in two ways?)
I was in one of 6 rooms off a corridor, each room holding two desks (well, one room was storage). As people left, I was the only one left in those rooms, so I used to think of it as "my wing of the building".
But there are distant trees on the horizon, so if this was, say, maybe a mile away to appear relatively small, those world have to be many more. That works only work on a flat earth.
Also, the moon and sun appear flattened when near the horizon due to atmospheric distortion.
In recent times I've played Baby Steps, Cocoon, Inside, Slay The Princess, Thank Goodness You're Here, Hyperbolica, Unpacking... Going further back, Unfinished Swan, Untitled Goose Game
I don't think that originality has gone. Maybe it's just easier to churn out shovelware, but there are still new ideas appearing.
"Our Pixel range has a fast easy-to-find fingerprint reader on the back. It's possible to unlock the phone as you're removing it from your pocket without even trying. How can we improve that?"
"How about we hide a slow, unreliable one somewhere under the screen. You can't feel or see where it is. When you do find the right spot, it'll illuminate your finger with the light of a thousand suns. Then, it might unlock the phone, if you're lucky."