ANARYU'S PROFILE

Enchanting 100 = 100% Free Destruction/Restoration spells. The effort was worth it.

Also, anyone want to buy my remaining 80 Iron Daggers? The NPCs keep running out of money.

Master level Destruction spells are worthless. : (

Most people realize those crazy slim ladies in the magazines and stuff are air-brushed like crazy, right? : )

It's a nice picture, lot of proportion errors (especially in the lengths of the upper and forearm versus their apparent depth in the water and direction) - but these aren't apparently unless you really look hard. If something like this looks good at a cursory glance I think that is most important, and this does a good job of that.

This would be a fun topic for a longer discussion, but if I had to boil down my personal opinion on what would make a dungeon crawler fun:

1. Easy to Learn, Hard to Master - Limit the number of stats and 3 or 4 or so, and make their effects obvious and easy to work with. When faced with too many options it makes player choices too hard and also boxes the dev into 'averaging' them out so characters aren't too gimped

2. Fast combat - longer fights can be fun, but when normal encounters are as length as a boss fight, it gets old fast, something you can't afford with a crawler

3. Toys and time to use them - skills or weapons or customization that I can play around with freely and not fear gimping my characters... and enough of it to be interesting without being overwhelming or fluffy due to all the options given

4. Loot and reasons to use it - Why does the player care what's in the chest? Money? Items? Weapons/Armor? Besides the items, give players simple ways to use them like a crafting or customization system

5. Interesting - A story or advancing areas, any elements that make the player want to go down just 'one more level' or 'just finish this area' to gain more items, see more funny dialogue, meet new members, etc

This is just a rough 'checklist' I came up with from my own experiences and preferences, ping me if you want to discuss it sometime, I rarely get to talk about user functionality. : )

author=calunio
/me looks at Hero's Realm download count and makes an evil grim.

I can't believe I'm number 12 top makerscore. I don't have that many games, and my games are definitely not that well rated.

Ironically making games is probably the worst way to earn Makerscore!

(Reviews and articles and scripts are worth static values, and unrated or low rates games aren't even close to the value of a single review.)

We lost because we lost, I was impressed with the presentation or creativity in several of the entries in this contest. (My own choices for the 3 top would be slightly different and also wouldn't include ours.)

That doesn't mean it wouldn't be fair to provide either:
1. Some idea of what people are signing up for (just the goal as mentioned if not the theme)
2. A way to withdraw gracefully when the theme is announced