RAOUL589'S PROFILE

I invoke Crocker's Rules.

First, I wish to say that I do not intend this post as a cheap way to plug my game. If you don't believe me on this, we won't be able to communicate effectively from here on, so there's probably not much point in you reading on.

I was looking back at how my (completed) game was doing recently, and I decided to filter my game in various ways to see how it had gone down with the RPG Maker community, overall (I released it about 9 months ago).

It turns out, it's not doing very well. In terms of downloads, it ranks:

• 430th / 810 (below average) for the filter 'All completed games'

• 119th / 140 (bottom 20%) for the filter 'Completed games rated 4 or more'

• 20th / 21 (second last!) for the filter 'Completed VX games rated 4 or more'

Now, obviously I think that my game is in about the top 10% in terms of quality (as everyone does). So I am wondering why you - my fellow RPG community member - think that it has such a low number of downloads. I don't mean this as an exercise in vanity. It's just that I intend to make more games in the future, and I would prefer not to get myself into this situation again. So I'm asking for your help to figure out what the underlying problems are.

Tell me whatever you like. However, I would prefer that you didn't just say 'your game is crap' unless you have played it (how would you know it's crap?). I would rather you say 'your game looks like it would be crap' (though this in itself isn't very helpful).

The game is here: http://rpgmaker.net/games/4263/

Please tell me. Why do you think my game gets so few downloads? Remember, Crocker's Rules. Say whatever you like to me. I'm not going to snap at you.

Hello, RPG Making community!

I was hoping to try something out with those who are willing.

I am currently making an RPG maker game, and I am looking for some feedback. I understand there is a traditional process for getting feedback from the community, but...

I am very curious about getting some blind feedback. To be specific, I would like to know how a random RPG enthusiast would respond to my game, as it is now, if they knew nothing about it beforehand. In this way, I hope to get a genuine, unprejudiced response to my game.

I will say two things: it is made in RPGVX, and it is not complete. Beyond that, I am not going to tell you anything else about the game. I hope this will allow me, the game designer, to get a kind of feedback which is normally unavailable when the player's experience is coloured or altered by what they have read or heard before they play it.

I want your honest opinion of my game, no matter what that opinion is.

Here is the game: GAME LINK
(Requires the RPG VX RTP).

I intend to make a formal submission of this game to this site eventually. However, it is only possible for me to obtain genuinely unprejudiced feedback before I have done so. Incidentally, it is possible (though highly unlikely) that you may have seen my game somewhere else. If so, I thank you a lot for playing it, but obviously I can't get the unprejudiced opinion I seek from you.


Incidentally, I would be excited to try the same thing for someone else's game. If you would like me to look at your game, send me a link and I will play it with the same intentions of going in blind. Expect totally honest feedback, though.