On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 17:45 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > well… thanks for the work - I haven’t read the mock-ups yet, I’m > going to, but I must admit that this is a complete surprise to me.
Yup, the idea came up on Saturday, after a night of playing board games.:D So it's a surprise to me too, actually ;p > My first reaction would be that we should increase the speed on > hackit, and that’s the priority. Agreed - I only propose it because it's so simple that it doesn't require much care from us. It's a small development, with no game design and almost no specification work (just explaining it made most of the work there) with mostly graphic work lying on Deborah's hands. > Maybe add social features quicker than expected, actually. It's a possibility, but I think it will be quite some time before we can actually do that. There are a lot of questions open at the moment, that will likely take some time, likely months, to end up on the live version, even with an incremental approach. The idea here is more to have something quick that can be finished in a few weeks. The game design is well tested already: it will allow to just test the social/viral part, and it's likely to be an easy win - something I think we could use right now, as I think discussions are sometimes slightly more tense than they should be. > Now, developing a social game… why not, but why did not you first > discuss the idea and the reasons you have before providing a > gameplay ? Simply because I didn't had the idea before, it came from actually playing games - I saw existing game mecanisms from an already successful genre that had a viral potential. Also, we talked about these kind of things in the past, no? About taking an existing gameplay from a genre, and applying it on Facebook just to gain experience. We kind of abandoned that step when we had the idea of Hackit, but it doesn't make it less relevant. I honestly thought you would be happy to read this proposition while I was writing it. > We actually had 9 months ago an idea for a very simple social game > from Aurelien, based on 2 factions, attack and identify points (more > identify than attack points per day), and I thought the idea was > simple and brilliant. Yes, I liked the idea too - that's how the concept for the alpha1 emerged. But it's a new idea, and we know how difficult, long and risky it can be to bring new ideas to fruition. I think we need something more light, it would help to gain in confidence.. Xavier. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
