Yes, creativity comes from observing your surroundings, but to develop a creative product you need a creative process. I think it is clear when you borrow solutions from other games to make yours better, instead of setting cloning as a goal that actually limits it, so you can have a ...
In any case, playing a demo should be enough to decide if you wanna buy a game, not to actually analyze it. And worse than analyzing a game you haven 't played is antagonizing it, like the fanbase is doing. It 's kinda circle-jerky.
While achievements do influence behavior, I think that 's not their only purpose. Their main function for me is to register my... achievements. I don 't have to kill the last boss with the wooden sword , but if I manage to do so, having it registered in my steam ...
While I do agree that violence is being cheaply overused, I don 't think the abstraction of warfare as a theme to achieve certain gameplay purposes is necessarily bad. Using themes superficially to make sense of the gameplay is a common thing in any genre, and trying to create a ...
Well, you know the difference between color choice for user-interface and ideas is that some developers actually think ideas have monetary value, and specially new developers constantly have problems letting go from them. This statement is a direct opposition to a certain harmful situation. If you use it on the ...
