WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

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The argument that everything but gameplay is unimportant is ridiculous.

This, this is correct.

This is, incorrect. Well, sort of anyway. You're not wrong.

Stuff has to barely represent what they are (Atari), but if you're a company releasing a game you would then put production value into it to hit a wider market. But, that's not exactly the problem here.

Now now, what I see lots of true gamers not realizing is that you can horribly detract from a game if the graphics/sounds are BAD. What sense of BAD? Well, if you can't tell where you are or what object you are, or it's painfully hard to see how much HP you have left, or some sounds are eighty times louder than anything while others are softer than a pillow, or you have no idea whether something is something you collect or something that hurts you, or you overlook something that you're supposed to have gotten, or that the screen has way too much information or way to little information, or there's way too much artwork everywhere, or the objects are disorientingly out of scale, and the list goes on.

When you work on the graphics and stuff, you need to think of how its related gameplay wise as opposed to just something that looks good. Being an amazing artist won't help you if you aren't thinking about the gameplay and make some mistakes that actually hurt your game. A good generalization of this is that lots of people I've seen try to make a game like they make movies, when they're two different mediums.

Whoever gets your body chemicals "burning" should work. Even better if they light your soul ablaze.

It just means they're faster at Googling things for you than we are.

Hehe, the funny thing is that I made a game like this years ago, but I used sprites because I couldn't (and still can't) model people very well.

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I'd say XP.

Very convincing argument.

Speech skill at 85~


And I totally use shoes to program my games with.