In any sense, for other developers or users to discover, or maybe to be seen by only one specific person, maybe even just just so you and you alone can take joy in knowing its there :) And nothing malicious of course! All in good harmless fun and spirit.
I once wrote a computer game called flight deck. It was a pretty boring game (Atari ST vintage), so together with a guy called Mat we decided to spice it up a bit.
The game revolved around (you've guessed it) an aircraft carrier that had two elevators seen from above.
Every once in a long long time one of the elevators would spontaneously descend, a guy would hop on to it, the elevator would ride to 'deck' level and the guy would strip and jump off the side of the ship and disappear with a splash.
The conditions for the event to happen were chosen to be so rare that it would only happen a hand full of times.
Every now and then we'd get a really weirded out support person asking us if this was possible, we always denied it, suggesting the player may have been drunk or on drugs ;)
I chatted back and forth via Git commit messages with another dev I was pairing with. When we turned the project over to the client, their developer sent an email a few days later on how funny the messages were.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadThe game revolved around (you've guessed it) an aircraft carrier that had two elevators seen from above.
Every once in a long long time one of the elevators would spontaneously descend, a guy would hop on to it, the elevator would ride to 'deck' level and the guy would strip and jump off the side of the ship and disappear with a splash.
The conditions for the event to happen were chosen to be so rare that it would only happen a hand full of times.
Every now and then we'd get a really weirded out support person asking us if this was possible, we always denied it, suggesting the player may have been drunk or on drugs ;)