@Tyler: As I was reading through your article and another Gamasutra article on monetization in freemium games, I noticed a few underlying threads to the key points I took away from the articles. My points were: 1. Maintain game balance, 2. Don't annoy the player in your attempt to extract ...
@Brandon Tim: As I was reading through your article and another Gamasutra article on monetization in freemium games, I noticed a few underlying threads to the key points I took away from the articles. My points were: 1. Maintain game balance, 2. Don't annoy the player in your attempt to ...
I basically agree with your position, but I think I would slightly rephrase the definition of professionalism to state that it is simply being passionate about the quality of your work rather than about the specifics of what you're working on . That is to say, I don't see passion ...
Glad to see that you've carried forward this discussion. I think it's the money-as-a-substitute-for-time aspect of your argument where we continue to disagree. It's here where I think you assume too much: However, if the gameplay was more important and more compelling than the checklist, then it follows, I think, ...
Point 1: The Checklist Effect isn't a new mechanism. We could easily re-brand it as the Completionist Effect and suddenly it doesn't sound so bad. Every game that has lots of stuff to do, explore, collect, achieve, etc. -- that's what RPGs and Metroidvania games are made of -- is ...
Finally got around to reading this, and I'm sure glad I did A lot of useful information about virality trends. Great for the indies out there especially, I think, since they may not have the resources for all of the analytics but can certainly learn lessons and evolve strategies based ...
