well... You may have to use the mouse, but can that still be accessible?
Also, I would actually be interested to see your combat game. God knows we
need some free ones.
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From: "Jeremy Kaldobsky" <jer...@kaldobsky.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the spirit of game production -
Re:bringsbackmemories - Re: Fw: BlindSoftware.comBlog Feed
First off, this is the second time I've written this post so it will
probably be of lower quality this time around. My browser decided to
glitch and I lost a very lost post, that was probably a full page if not a
page and a half.
As one of the new guys in the community, relatively speaking, I debated
even commenting on this topic. I wasn't around for the "golden era" so my
perspective is extremely limited compared to those who have been around
long enough to see the bigger picture.
That being said, I don't doubt things have slowed down with audio game
development to some degree, I believe that is normal. I do, also, agree
with Dark that a well made game can still use old ideas.
Recently I assembled a list of the audio games and tools I have released.
I was honestly shocked by how short that list was! I kept thinking I had
left things out, and it took me a while to accept that the list was
accurate. The reason I felt like I had done more is because for every
game/tool I've released, I have 2 that were only partially finished.
While developing a new game, if I discover existing games that use the
same general idea, I will get discouraged. The same is true when I read
that someone else is currently developing a game with a similar style. In
those cases, I will just push my project aside and start work on another.
Part of the way through that design, there's always a chance the same
thing will happen again.
Even if only half of the other developers are like me, that is a lot of
developers holding off on projects because they are searching for a unique
idea. Sure, if we stuck with it our games would be different in some
ways, but they are still similar to something already out there. I always
ask myself the question, "Why waste time when I could be making something
totally unique?"
Over the years, many audio games have been created, and they represent
many different game styles. For anyone trying not to repeat an existing
game, this means our options are getting smaller and smaller all the time.
New ideas are tricky, and they take longer to develop than the games based
on old ideas. It is only natural for things to slow down because of this.
I believe that this would still be true even if the old classic game
companies were still around. They probably rode out the market until the
trends started to change. It was a smart move on their part, if that is
what they did.
New ideas also run the risk of being rejected. I released Daytona to be
unique, and many people played it, but also many more didn't even care to
try it. That's not meant to put anyone down, but it is just a reality.
The more new and unique you make a game, the more likely it is that you've
narrowed down on your potential player base. For this very reason I set
my combat game aside because I didn't have faith that my player base would
be large enough to help me support the ongoing server costs. I'm also
fairly certain my next Daytona game will be completely passed over by a
sizable portion of the community simply because it requires the mouse to
play. I built Lunimals to be as close to "standard" as I could, and I'm
sure its recent popularity speaks loudly in support of my theory.
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