--- title: Why I Spent as Much Time on Scenery as on Physics description: A developer reflects on the decision to invest heavily in visual environments for an endless mobile racing game, exploring the hypothesis that visual variety... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-spent-as-much-time-on-scenery-as-on-physics-pjnlojpin twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Why I Spent as Much Time on Scenery as on Physics | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on the decision to invest heavily in visual environments for an endless mobile racing game, exploring the hypothesis that visual variety... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-i-spent-as-much-time-on-scenery-as-on-physics-pjnlojpin og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pJNLojPIn.png og:image:alt: Why I Spent as Much Time on Scenery as on Physics og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why I Spent as Much Time on Scenery as on Physics **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on the decision to invest heavily in visual environments for an endless mobile racing game, exploring the hypothesis that visual variety improves player retention, the production tradeoff between content and features, and what player feedback revealed about the environments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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