When folks post about funny software changelogs it’s usually, like, Minecraft or Dwarf Fortress, but some of the best examples I’ve ever seen have come from Counterfeit Monkey.
In a nutshell, it’s a piece of interactive fiction (or a text adventure, if you’re old school) whose gimmick revolves around using various magic devices to add, delete, or rearrange letters in the names of objects in the game world, thus transforming them into the object(s) so named. As you can image, the possible outcomes get pretty esoteric, especially once you figure out how to disable the safeties and anagram intangibles and abstractions.
A few personal favourites include:
The bartender will no longer paddle the musical piece.
Gelling the tub is now allowed.
Adds a WINNER LOGO CHOCOLATE to be the singular of the same object, and a HOOTING OWL CONCEALER as its anagram.
Makes children cry when you break the hanging figure with the severed arm.
Adds BROKEN COMPONENT and CEMENT PORNO KNOB as products of the BROKEN COMPONENTS.
Always describe new letter-transformed creations when we haven't seen them before. Previously, the player would sometimes never get to see the descriptions of things that instantly killed them.
