Comments on: 21 More Ways To Annoy Players http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/ I bake games. Indie style. Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:09:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Juuso - Game Producer http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/comment-page-1/#comment-1775 Juuso - Game Producer Tue, 02 May 2006 07:07:12 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/#comment-1775 @Kartones: That's something which unfortunately gets on our (game developers) shoulders... when a big company announces new drivers, it it the game that gets blame. It's a darn tough job to make the game work on all possible drivers... both old and new. It's hard, it's annoying, and unfortunately it's usually the game makers that get the blame (not the player or the drivers company). But - we are made to meet these challenges :) @Kartones: That’s something which unfortunately gets on our (game developers) shoulders… when a big company announces new drivers, it it the game that gets blame. It’s a darn tough job to make the game work on all possible drivers… both old and new. It’s hard, it’s annoying, and unfortunately it’s usually the game makers that get the blame (not the player or the drivers company).

But – we are made to meet these challenges :)

]]> By: Kartones http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/comment-page-1/#comment-1225 Kartones Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:00:43 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/#comment-1225 mmm another one that made me hate some games until weeks later: · Do not test your game with up-to-date graphic drivers, so the game crashes or becomes unplayable somewhere. KOTOR2-effect. I had to stop playing just because a nasty problem with ATI cards, until ATI made a new catalyst version. Same happened to me while trying Matrix: Path of Neo. mmm another one that made me hate some games until weeks later:

· Do not test your game with up-to-date graphic drivers, so the game crashes or becomes unplayable somewhere.

KOTOR2-effect. I had to stop playing just because a nasty problem with ATI cards, until ATI made a new catalyst version. Same happened to me while trying Matrix: Path of Neo.

]]> By: Jake Birkett http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/comment-page-1/#comment-890 Jake Birkett Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:49:35 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/#comment-890 common, full-screen startup is the norm, otherwise your game might look a bit rubbish in windowed mode. common, full-screen startup is the norm, otherwise your game might look a bit rubbish in windowed mode.

]]> By: Unk http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/comment-page-1/#comment-889 Unk Thu, 13 Apr 2006 16:08:55 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/#comment-889 This would be a great shared resource to continue adding to and refining. I really think developers need to start collaborating on this stuff via a wikipedia like resource... or throwing resources up on a wiki once threads like this get going. We keep having these great 'discussions' that work on solving developer and design related problems... but the dialog is spread out over multiple blog posts, comments, and articles that everyone keeps feeding off of and responding to. In order to really retain or refine on any of these points we need a better way of collecting and collaborating on data and making it available to the general development population at large. There is the recent Game Innovation website: http://www.gameinnovation.org/index.php/Main_Page Also, there is a discussion going on regarding a Game Design Dictionary over at Only a Game: http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2006/04/wanted_lexicogr.html This would be a great shared resource to continue adding to and refining. I really think developers need to start collaborating on this stuff via a wikipedia like resource… or throwing resources up on a wiki once threads like this get going. We keep having these great ‘discussions’ that work on solving developer and design related problems… but the dialog is spread out over multiple blog posts, comments, and articles that everyone keeps feeding off of and responding to. In order to really retain or refine on any of these points we need a better way of collecting and collaborating on data and making it available to the general development population at large.

There is the recent Game Innovation website:
http://www.gameinnovation.org/index.php/Main_Page

Also, there is a discussion going on regarding a Game Design Dictionary over at Only a Game:
http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2006/04/wanted_lexicogr.html

]]> By: Thomas White http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Thomas White Thu, 13 Apr 2006 05:18:25 +0000 http://www.gameproducer.net/2006/04/13/21-more-ways-to-annoy-players/#comment-887 #29 is just as annoying when they're known logos. EA especially has a bad habit of making you watch their intro logos _every single time_ you load their games. Not only do I already know that EA made the game and so don't need to be reminded, but I also just don't care! I've never bought a game because of the publisher, whether they be EA or any other. That's like going to see a movie because Universal made it. Only the game itself can catch my interest, or the developer if they've got a good track record, but never the publisher. Luckily you can just delete the intro video files from your installation directory on any EA game and save yourself 15 seconds of extra game loading time. #29 is just as annoying when they’re known logos.

EA especially has a bad habit of making you watch their intro logos _every single time_ you load their games. Not only do I already know that EA made the game and so don’t need to be reminded, but I also just don’t care! I’ve never bought a game because of the publisher, whether they be EA or any other. That’s like going to see a movie because Universal made it. Only the game itself can catch my interest, or the developer if they’ve got a good track record, but never the publisher.

Luckily you can just delete the intro video files from your installation directory on any EA game and save yourself 15 seconds of extra game loading time.

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