Dark Emrald wrote:

Nicely done icons would be the first! most gamers are spoiled with rich graphics <_<. Not a laggy game?

This is completely incorrect. Gameplay comes first, good graphics enhance it. You can have all the fancy graphics you want, but without gameplay, it's not a game and you may as well go watch a CGI movie.

Knifo wrote:

The truth is both of you below me are wrong. If there was a true winning formula. Everyone would be using it if there was. Unfortunetly there is not. Just do whatever you think feels right. It might work, it might not who knows.

No, there is no 'true winning formula', what I'm saying is, gameplay is more important than graphics. I'm not saying graphics aren't important, bad graphics can kill any game, but good graphics won't save a boring game.

You could just 'do what feels right', but game design is an art. You can get degrees in game design.

However, this is a discussion for another thread. We aren't being helpful.

What makes a good game in this community?
Bells and whistles. Forget making anything actually good. Just spam your game with cheesy anime and cliche.

What actually makes a game good?
Creative thinking. When you have people on your game who tell you that it is actually good and that you've done something that no one else has you know you hit the jackpot. Its a good feeling, I should know.

In any case. Yeah, its the thinking behind the work that matters.

True, but who actually looks at the good stuff? I mean, I didn't even realize half of the games on this site were actually good until I found them. Everyone is lazy and no one looks anymore. Its sad too. Theres some real gems out there.

Foomer wrote:

But in the end, if you can't enjoy your own game, what's the point? Just make a chatroom and hope its popular.

The journey is all of the fun for some.

ShadowUser wrote:

Popularity is more about pyshcology and marketing and less about game design. You would think good games would be more popular, but they aren't. It's sickening.

I was reading something about good games not essentially being popular somewhere a couple days ago.

I have to disagree with whoever said if you think a game is fun, it is good. Look at most movie licenced titles, they are crappy yet a lot of people like them.

Yeah, totally agree with you, sickening!

Nudity, it is all about the in-game nudity.

In any RPG, anime especially, you need to establish a hierarchy of players using some sort of trainging system.

This could be hitting a punching bag, punching air, killing monsters, practicing spells, killing other players, etc etc. The most popular games have different methods of training.

Then, along the way, set up incentives for people to train. This could be new techniques, new weapons, new armor, etc etc..If the only incentive to train is to get stronger, peopl will realize that it's pointless pretty fast.

PvP games work the best because there will always be an incentive to get stronger and there's always that guy that spends 20 hours a day playing the game.

Graphics are not essesntial but its easier to play a game for hours on end if it's pretty to look at, and you want some sense of reality in a game, so it cant just be sticks and stick figures.

That, essentially, is the winning formula, but you have to add originality and creativity to disguise this formula. As long as you do this and the coding is good, not to mention good grammar in the text to make the player think the owner actually knows what he's doing, you're good!