Hello,
These are not only Peter's though. I agree with him.
Because english is a world-wide language, there are on this list many
people from many parts of the world. I'm personally eased enough with
the language to communicate with written text and be
reasonablyunderstood even if I make errors, that's why I have interest
to be on this list, but it's really not the case in oral. To give
another example, I participated in traditional RPG via skype and even be
dunjon master once, but I would never like to try that in english or in
any another language than french. It will probably be much too hard for
me to fully enjoy the game. And even if it's in written form, english
muds remain difficult for a non-native english speaker.
I think many people here think the same as me.
So a game relying essentially on voice chat wouldn't be as enjoyable as
one want because of language barrier.
If I have well understood, sorry if I have misstaken, many of your games
are based on letters, words, vocabulary, or general culture knowledge
skills (except your recent chess proposition). That sort of games suffer
even much more from language barrier than simpler card/board/dice games
for which the rules are allmost equivalent everywhere, additionnally to
the fact that oral require generally much better language skills to writing.
Infortunately, as a game maker you can't do anything against language
barrier. You can only accept that everybody don't speak english well
enough to play, and try to translate your games with the hope to get
more players. Of course in your case of voice chat based games you can't
make any translation, obviously.
The time problem is another one. For this one neither there is a
solution. There is always somebody across the globe for which the time
you fixed fall during the night or too late in the evening. The goal
here is to choose a time which goes for the most part of the targetted
players. For example if you set a time in the afternoon instead of
evening for the US, then it fall in the evening for UK, but bad luck if
there are australians... some french people on the playroom have set up
uno tournaments, I know how it could be hard to make verybody happy.
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