50 Ways to Make Us LOVE Your Flash Game
Written By MrSun at 8:34 am - Friday, August 01st, 2008
Categories: Flash
Categories: Flash
- Make it funny
- Give it an intriguing title
- Make an interesting storyline
- Let us customize our experience
- If it’s hard or confusing, make a walkthrough for us
- If it’s complicated, write some good documentation
- Keep track of all our statistics so we can see how well we’re doing
- Add Easter Eggs (If you do, tell us so we can look for them)
- Add an awards system
- Give your game some personality
- Have different difficulty levels
- Keep It Simple, Stupid!
- Give us unlimited possiblities
- Base it off of a current event (like the election)
- Give us clear instructions
- Make menu navigation easy and simple
- Don’t put ads anywhere
- Give us tips
- Have a great soundtrack
- Make great art, but not too detailed
- Make the gameplay fast paced
- Increase difficulty as we go along at a realistic rate
- Keep it original
- Make it unpredictable
- Keep us on the edge of our seats
- Add a personal touch to it
- Continually update it after its release
- Don’t make it too easy or too hard
- Give it a reasonable frame rate (20-30 fps)
- Make it multiplayer
- Give us a clear description of the game
- Add a crazy twist
- Have a nice color scheme
- We love making fun of famous people
- Implement high score API’s as much as possible
- Add alternate controls if possible
- Make a “Fun Level” without limitations or restrictions
- Create lively animations
- Don’t worry about how realistic it is, as long as it’s fun
- If we lose, make it easy to restart
- Make it addictive
- Get it sponsored. If a sponsor likes it, then other people will like it
- Leave us craving for more
- Keep everything consistent (art, difficulties, storyline, etc)
- Keep it polished
- Give us an incentive to leave positive responses
- Optimize your code
- Compress your music
- Understand how we think
- Make it good
I know that this list has many vague, contradictory, and repetitive points. But, that’s just how the opinions of gamers are like. No one thing will satisfy us.
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