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02/05/2010 08:10 AM

One of the things that annoy me in this world are people who don't know how to take criticism. I'll say no more.

Vacant Sky Vol. 1: Contention

02/04/2010 11:43 PM

Lol sorry for the late reply. I walked across several roofs actually--they're pretty common.

Then can we at least make the background color more outstanding? I never saw the difference between posts, and can hardly see them now even after you told me.

Seven names would be impractical, but surely all seven of you didn't upload the game at once? Whoever's in charge should be the lead author, thus their name should be listed.

Backstage Review

02/04/2010 10:49 PM

You know it's interesting, in the class I took on Reviewing and Criticism (or whatever the course was called) I was taught that the first and most important job of a critic is to correctly identify the author's intent, and then determine whether the author succeeded at that intent. I don't think I've ever seen a better example of why that's so important, because if you misidentify the author's intent, it really fucks everything up.

Seems to me like your intent was to create a bad game... Wrong? Was it to disappoint us? Was it to make people waste hours of their life? Hit some pipes? Dabble in shinanigans? Then dear god, what was this game for?

(I'm being extremist here.)

You may not have learned this in your R/C class, so I'll fill you in: if a critic cannot identify with your intent on some level, then there is a lack of communication between the BOTH of you, not just one party. It may be that the critic is incompetent--though I hardly think that is the case here--or it may just be that the author/developer doesn't know diddly-squat about execution. In this case one might say that the game was obscure enough to get lost in translation. That's called a failed delivery.

However, I think Solitayre was kidding around when he/she made those comparisons to the Longing Ribbon, so this is all rather besides the point. Sol's points are still valid no matter how you look at it.

Author name beneath title

02/04/2010 10:21 PM

I think I figured out the main reason why I requested this: when I'm browsing through a game's images, I can never tell who posted them. I always scroll up and find the game's title, then look underneath wondering where the author's name is. And sometimes it's just so I know whether the person who's commenting on the image after me is the author or not, you know?

There's just so many games to keep track of!