true my idea was to have a game which would cost a small ammount, the
next section would cost the same.
each section say an adventure would end on a cliff hanger of sorts or
something, so you would buy it in bits.
my thought was that every piece you had would load the next so once
you have finnished 1 piece you got the next piece.
For starters, you would always get the first piece free, as a
enticer and the next pieces would be payed with a small ammount,
something like 10 bucks or even 5 bucks eventually you could get a
completed story for 30 bucks or buy it as you went.
yeah some games are not designed that way but oh well.
At 06:58 AM 4/20/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, that idea might work for some games, but not others. What I mean
by that depending on how the game is designed it might not be able to
be broken up into modules or separate components like that.
For example, take the game Shades of Doom. You couldn't break that
game up into separate modules because its a linier design from Area 1
to Area 9. You can't just write the first four or five levels, sell
that as a starter game, and then sell levels 6 through 9 as an add-on
pack. Since the game would be incomplete without the extra levels.
That would be ethically questionable.
However, the way ESP Pinball Extreme is designed its perfect for what
you suggest. You buy the basic game with a starter set of tables and
then can buy any number of expansion sets of tables that you want.
Its the type of game you can do that sort of thing with and no one
will have reason to complain since the starter game is a complete game
in itself. The expansion pack is just that. An addition to the game
you don't have to have.
Still, the concept of designing more games with the ability to have
expansion packs is a good one. It would help audio game developers
raise money for their companies, and not be quite as time consuming as
writing new games from scratch. A small $5 or $10 expansion pack for a
game now and then would be a relatively inexpensive way to keep new
game content coming while not taking that long to complete.
For instance, I recall all of the original Tomb Raider games for the
PC has expansion packs that essentially adds little mini games to the
full game. You would have the original 15 levels, and then a mini game
that you could buy and play for a fraction of the cost of the full
game. Something like that model could be done in audio games, and a
game like Judgment Day is a prime example of that in action.
When you buy Judgment Day you of course get the game itself, but you
get a few mini games as well as some extra scenes. I don't see why
something like that game couldn't be expanded with a few more mini
games and extra content here and there if a developer wanted to take
that route. The mini games wouldn't have to be very expensive say
$5.00 each or perhaps three for $15.00. Either way it would expand an
existing game and not be expensive to obtain the new content.
Cheers!
On 4/18/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I'd be happy to pay a lot for a large game, one idea I had,
> instead of paying say 100 bucks for a game have the game selling for
> 20-30 bucks maybe even 15 bucks.
> Don't develop the full game, just do it in bits, you buy 1 bit, and
> slowly buy more and more launching bits as you go.
> Or you could keep the price low and make the player have to find more
> bits to play somehow.
> I remember games in the old dos days, you brought a simple game
> with the game in it.
> you could then buy the full game or play the simple game and hunt for
> it every time you finnished a section you had to hunt for the next one,
> etc.
>
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