Official Off-Topic Thread

[Darien]

Sounds like a cop out to me, Taka.  Make your own game fun, don't expect the player to make the game fun for you.

[AdamAtomic]

Sounds like a cop out to me, Taka.  Make your own game fun, don't expect the player to make the game fun for you.

Hear hear!  Also, amen and other such agreements.

[.TakaM]

what you're saying is true n all darien, but that wasn't really what I was talking about.
I don't want the players to make the game fun for me, I want to both make the game fun for the players and have the players make the game fun for themselves.

regardless, I think we've got the fun part down, just recorded a tough combo in level 5:

(click to view full screen - 4MB)

it was fun and difficult

[bengo]

Gah! That games looks so fun, whens the next demo?!

[Zero]

Gah! That games looks so fun, whens the next demo?!

My thoughts exactly. I wanna play this! 

[Darien]

I don't want the players to make the game fun for me, I want to both make the game fun for the players and have the players make the game fun for themselves.

I realize that, and that's what I was talking about.  I don't think it's possible to have one game be 100% one way or the other.  But I think you as a designer should make the game as inherently fun as possible.  By acknowledging that a player is going to have to put some effort into making the game funner, that's acknowledging that the core of the game isn't as fun as possible.  If there was a way to make it funner it should have been made that way and not have the player have to artificially make it that way.


That aside, your game looks like it's coming along nicely.

[Dusty]

Gamefaqs pisses me off sometimes. They're allowed to have a crapload of different FAQs for the same game submitted, some not even ever finished at all. Yet, once someone uploads a map or image, you're not allowed to upload something of the same nature. I mean, look at these maps:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/197771/3488
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/n64/file/197771/3501
I've made a couple of maps(actually put effort into the graphics for them), and they were rejected because they were 'duplicates' of current maps that are already uploaded above(I actually did a Hyrule map, with more information than the one above)... I can't believe once someone slaps up a half-assed map in MSPaint they hold the title for the map forever. And I post about it in the Gamefaq's forums, and just get a bunch of replies that it's about the information, not the quality. Which is true, if there is no alternative. Sometimes I'd like to see a better looking map on the site instead of looking at those scribbles. I don't see why a better image can't be accepted, even if it is just because it's only more visually appealing.

[.TakaM]

let's see yours dusty

[Skull]

Hmm, those maps are really poor, and a little hard to make out at times.
I can barely recall the game looking at those!

[Zolthorg]

gamefaqs.com

lol gamespotfaqs.
they threw quality out the window a loooooooooong time ago