I agree with ya man,
I tried something different with rail racer, and I suppose it was somewhat
successful, but i got lots of complaints that it was too complicated to
play.
folks complain if it is too easy, if it is too hard, if it takes too much
practice to master, blah blah blah. just can't please all the folks all the
time.
next i am doing an online playable football game, driven with mouse
support, custom plays, online season play against human opponents, high end
sound effects, etc. . I was going to do a really involved fighting game as
posted on list here, but didn't get much feedback on it, and didn't want to
spend the next 18 months on something that wasn't going to sell, especially
such an ambitious project. I think the folks that would have enjoyed the
online fighting game would have really enjoyed it a lot, as those that play
rail racer constantly do, but there just aren't enough of them out there to
justify the time spent.
you can check the archives for details. the project might still get done,
but it will have to wait.
I think the masses want simple and easy, and those kind of games seem to
sell the best. troop n em sold a lot of copies, and at its core, its just a
simple shoot em up.
anyhow, i want a killer football game myself, so I'm gonna make one. if
folks like it fine, if not, whatever, you got to go with what yer passionate
about, or the results come out luke warm at best.
as for other developers out there, i can't comment, they do what they do,
and so far innovation hasn't been at the top of any of their lists lately
from what i've seen.
We can only hope that changes soon.
This is not a money making market to spend hundreds and perhaps thousands
of hours on a project and make just a few grand on it. you have to love
doing it almost as a hobby , or yer in for dissapointment.
I set up the card room because I love poker, and also to offset some of my
dedicated server costs, and folks that have played have told me they are the
best card games out there for the blind, with features not seen anywhere
else. But even so, nobody is gonna make a living doing this stuff.
i've seen cracked copies of most of the accessible games out there, hosted
by fellow blinks. these people are total idiots, not realizing the damage
they are doing to the accessible gaming market, but they don't care. i know
some of them are reading this, and if you are sharing any cracked games, you
should be very ashamed of yourself. in sucha small market, the damage you
are doing is immense.
Bottom line, if your a fellow developer working on a game now, my hat is
off to you, this is a hard task without much reward or thanks, but non
developers don't get that and don't seem to care either. But having said
that, can't we push the envelope a little bit? Do we really need another
shoot em up or arcade action game? hasn't all that been done enough by now?
later
che
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