I recognize the virtues of cooperative games. My favorite commercial game, as I said, is D D, an ultimately cooperative game when played right it can be played lots of different ways... . Nonetheless, my observation is that Euro games that are theoretically competitions, often aren't competitive. And they're certainly ...
Spoken like a programmer and probably one who has never had a tabletop game commercially published . I disagree with you strongly. And I hasten to add, I have worked as a professional programmer, though not on video games. Designing any game to 80 completion is easy , video or ...
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What drives the success of the free to play market is that we're in the age of instant gratification and convenience. People playing a freemium game will pay money because they want to do something NOW rather than wait, and because they are willing to pay the money for the ...
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Have you ever heard of a game called Left-Right-Center or LRC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCR 28dice game 29 There are no viable choices. It is entirely random, and played by adults including my extended family at Christmas time , but evidently sells quite well. It is of the don't make me think school ...
You can measure customer satisfaction by asking customers if they're satisfied, though you're not counting that. Unfortunately, in typical survey formats you often don't get reliable replies. For practical purposes, in playtesting you're asking representatives of your target market whether they like your game, and how much, but I think ...
I see David's point of view, even though all the evidence I've seen is that games in general are getting easier rather than harder, with specific exceptions such as Mass Effect. Nonetheless, AAA games are being promoted and sold through their stories as much as, if not more than, their ...
And yet it's been shown many times that working 60 hours a week results in 40 hours worth of work, after the first weeks of crunch. In other words, it is largely fruitless. The 40 hour work week is there for a reason. So why do teams keep doing it
