Diablo 2 but better, I believe in you.

I will play nub

maybe try thinking big and then zooming in like: do i want to make a puzzle game? should it involve moving around in a world, math, written puzzles.. should it be something highly replayable or a once or twice run thing.. if its movement based who will the player be.. should it be something they can enjoy playing for a few minutes or longer puzzles that make the player think about it for awhile at one sitting..

not necessarily "Oh I want a zelda like game with mass effect like story and minesweeper like playstyle and etc.."

OR

you could do research on what people are most interested in when they look for game apps and do something in that genre for that audience but make it your own thing

This post was edited by TheReborn_Magi on Feb 23 2013 02:02am

Yes.

android/ios needs a good mmorpg. something where you can farm items, do quests, learn skills (or get them from mobs.) a trading system. dungeons? parties.

basically android has no good pixel or decent graphics mmorpgs and im bored.

Gere and such is important I agree, but I like to fly with ideas rather than narrowing myself to a genre at the beginning, seems like a crazy way to work? then i'm crazy. Kinda like Johnny Ive says, if you're designing a lunchbox, dont get caught up in the word box, because you have a predisposition around the object.

Hrmm, good thoughts man tho, will definitely take them into consideration in my musings.



XD tried that one a long time ago, enough to realise it's not a 1-2 man job.



MMO is hard, because bam, you have a server, which means bam, maintainable infrastructure.

If it's a good game, and it's making money, it's possible to maintain servers with little lag. And then there is making the damn thing, I don't think toonbit is quite ready for an undertaking of MMO sizing, but it might be something I do in future.

at the same time though, in terms of a lunch box, if you try to reinvent the wheel it doesn't make it better. No one should design something imo to look clever saying "oh I did this when everyone did that haha!". It makes more sense to me to start by looking at what works and do it better, not ignore what works because you don't want to follow commonality. Maybe someone made a lunchbox that is like a sphere or something "crazy cool" but it would be pretty shit i imagine.

Its always interesting to me when I see a product like a chair for example that is designed too be super cool looking but they didn't think about how practical it would be to actually sit in it for more than a minute. So i keep that mentality when I think about any product I see or make is "how practical is it".

I think in making a game for the booming portable phone market is deciding how interested you are in doing something that is really interesting to you and hoping some people like it or going where the money is and being able to be happy with that mentality. I conflict on what is a better route a lot of the time but I think its good to have a realistic goal in mind when you do something like this. Will you be happy if you sell 1000 copies of a game or will you say shit I just spent x amount of time and what do I have to show.

This post was edited by TheReborn_Magi on Feb 24 2013 04:14am

been playing this for nearly ten minutes now. best game ever. dan the man!

Do a scrolling shooter like raiden!

Yessssssssssss