Help us out by taking this short survey
http://www.thesistools.com/?qid=38796&ln=eng
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello Adventure gamers! We're students Communication and Multimedia Design from Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Because of our love for games, the passion to create and our past internship in the game industry, we decided to design and develop a game ourselves for our graduation project. This with the help of a Dutch game development company. Before we will actually start the concept and development process, we have to do research to all kinds of factors that will make a game stand out. We have to this research because it's mandatory in order to graduate, but more so to gain insight which hopefully will prove to be very useful for us to make a game that people will love to play. We put up a survey as part of the research and we want to ask you to spare a little time to take the survey. It will only take about 3 minutes of your time, but it will provide us with very valuable information. You will be asked for your name or e-mail address. Somehow there's no option to turn this of at this website we're using, but we found out you can fill in a bogus name or e-mail address if you want to remain anonymous. Thank you for your time, we appreciate it a lot! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.thesistools.com/?qid=38796&ln=eng |
Good luck with your project! Remember that as a designer you sometimes have to create things that people don't yet know they want, meaning surveys don't always give you the ultimate answers. As Henry Ford once said, "If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have asked for a faster horse." When you're designing a game, trust your instincts.
Out of curiosity, is Tim Laning one of your teachers? (Probably a long shot.) |
Thank you Marek.
Totally agree with you, thanks for pointing that out. Hehe that's funny, Tim indeed used to be one of our teachers, we know him quite well actually. |
I finished the survey. Please keep us informed about the results! Question: are you or your fellow students related to Adventure Island?
|
Done. Good luck with it, guys.
|
Done.
|
Shouldn't this thread be moved to the Adventures section?
|
I started answering these questions, but gave up, because the questions annoyed me. In fact, the whole concept of deciding a game's subject matter using a survey annoys me. I mean, I can understand polling people for usability and interface-related issues, and maaaybe for gameplay, but if you're basing your actual content on what's popular with a focus group, rather than on something you want to share with the world, well, that's automatically going to make me refuse to play the finished product.
This is why I fucking hate the industry sometimes. |
I did fill in the survey but I also had the feeling that the questions were often quite irrelevant for students who don't have to think about the commercial value of a game, but are encouraged to make something original and creative. I wonder if you have to take this survey mandatory, ExcaliburRudeone, or did you also have to think up the questions yourself?
And thanks, Squinky, for your insightful remark. O, and an example of an original and creative school project (in Dutch) can be found here. |
Quote:
|
Good luck with your graduation project, gentlemen. It's not easy to balance ideals with real life; I wish you well.
|
Quote:
It can be hard to trust your design instincts when you're starting out, but the key in designing a game is to always think of the game from a player's perspective. Try to use your game playing instincts to guide you. Quote:
|
Quote:
|
I wish they could have at least asked about interface and stuff too.... That would have felt more meaningful than answering what kind of movies I like... Especially since they are nothing like the kind of games i like...
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
I think they should make a game about being an elite space marine blowing up zombies in an alien world!
|
Okay, I filled it out. Good luck!
|
Quote:
|
All times are GMT -8. The time now is 08:42 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Design & Logo Copyright ©1998 - 2017, Adventure Gamers®.
All posts by users and Adventure Gamers staff members are property of their original author and don't necessarily represent the opinion or editorial stance of Adventure Gamers.