I will add however, that even in small games, quality can vary.
Take the BG games for instance. These do not seem to take Ian humphries long
to write, yet seem to have lots of features, even and above commercial
varients. For example low vision workable graphics, different skill levels
of the computer, many speech and review keys, intelligent computer hints
(his mastermind is quite ridiculous for that), ability to generate different
puzzles, heck, his crosswords game even lets you load in several sorts of
crosswords from across the internet.
So for me at least, while it is certainly true that something like Gma tank
commander takes a lot more building than a word or puzzle game, or even a
simple arcade game, there still does seem to be a quality aspect of design
there to be considdered from the perspective of the programmer.
this is doubly true considdering we're seeng lots of people using BGt and
python to create smaller, simple arcade games, but often ones without enough
features or detail to be of a reasonable standard, either from a design
perspective, or simply from a point of view of running smoothly.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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