How to make the game special?
Ted Price (Ted Price), the executive director of Insomniac Games, told Gamasutra about the four rules that his studio adheres to when creating any game. In turn, we consider it necessary to share these principles with you.
When you are just starting to develop a new game, you have an advantage - there are plenty of opportunities. But this is your misfortune. Where to begin? Which path to choose? Crazy ideas can be many, especially if you generate them in a fun company with a keg of beer. But if you then try to implement at least one of them, there is a chance to make a very expensive and complicated project.
At that time, our mistake was one thing: we didn’t ask ourselves the main question: “What makes our game different from others? Special? How is it better than others? ”And this is the main goal: to find the answer to this question and bring it to the team.
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Defining this phenomenon is quite difficult. But when you play, its presence or absence is clearly felt. The game should be interesting and entertaining. If you yourself do not like to play, then do not pretend to be interesting, do not fool yourself. Correct, change everything that you see fit. Fan will definitely come.
However, many make a mistake, believing that if you add a story, graphics and music, then it will become more interesting to play. Nothing like this. All this is secondary and is only a supplement. The game itself must create a fan.
To the question “To whom is your game intended?” The answer “To all” is not accepted. The fact is that today the gaming audience is so diverse that the chance to find your audience appears only when you can segment users.
Let's say your audience is mobile users. This means that the user's attention must be won from the first seconds. Hardcore shooter? So, design and management must be top notch. Or, for example, a social game for Facebook: in this situation, the main thing is virality.
By investing yourself, your interests and personal experience in the game, you invest in the project soul. Then the game will be special, unique, which means it will show a good result.
1. You can do something alone, but better than anyone.
When you are just starting to develop a new game, you have an advantage - there are plenty of opportunities. But this is your misfortune. Where to begin? Which path to choose? Crazy ideas can be many, especially if you generate them in a fun company with a keg of beer. But if you then try to implement at least one of them, there is a chance to make a very expensive and complicated project.
At that time, our mistake was one thing: we didn’t ask ourselves the main question: “What makes our game different from others? Special? How is it better than others? ”And this is the main goal: to find the answer to this question and bring it to the team.
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2. It all starts with fun.
Defining this phenomenon is quite difficult. But when you play, its presence or absence is clearly felt. The game should be interesting and entertaining. If you yourself do not like to play, then do not pretend to be interesting, do not fool yourself. Correct, change everything that you see fit. Fan will definitely come.
However, many make a mistake, believing that if you add a story, graphics and music, then it will become more interesting to play. Nothing like this. All this is secondary and is only a supplement. The game itself must create a fan.
3. Define your target audience.
To the question “To whom is your game intended?” The answer “To all” is not accepted. The fact is that today the gaming audience is so diverse that the chance to find your audience appears only when you can segment users.
Let's say your audience is mobile users. This means that the user's attention must be won from the first seconds. Hardcore shooter? So, design and management must be top notch. Or, for example, a social game for Facebook: in this situation, the main thing is virality.
4. Make the game yourself
By investing yourself, your interests and personal experience in the game, you invest in the project soul. Then the game will be special, unique, which means it will show a good result.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/151017/
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