Armiris wrote:
> You mean you want to design the game, while the other staff makes it? I have done all the coding for a game while someone else does the iconing, but I have never heard of a game on BYOND being designed only.
then welcome to the world of real game development!
this has been discussed before, but it's worth pointing out again.
developing the ideas and concepts for a game are just as important, and in some cases even more so, than the development of the game itself. without those ideas, without a person, or persons, to lead and direct the team, without a perspective *outside* the programming environment, you don't have a focus or goal to complete a project to the satisfaction of all concerned- and that includes your potential player-base!
programmers and icon makers are possibly the *worst* people to design a game from start to finish. who cares if they can code 100 lines a day, or draw beautiul icons and backgrounds? if they don't have ideas and concepts, if they don't have someone who keeps the goal/focus of the game going, to mediate between the contributors, to provide feedback and express the desire for this feature or that feature, then the 'team' is more often than not doomed to failure.
this is called project management. nearly every commercially successful game out there started with a group of idea people. with the help of designers, programmers, and play-testers, the people with the ideas are able to mold a game into something they feel portrays their vision. they are no-less important.
while i do design and develop my own projects, some of the best work i have been involved in has come from the ideas that someone not technically-minded provided me. they helped to set the wheels of development in motion by saying 'this is what i would like to see happen, and i think other people would like it too', and asking questions like 'can we do this or that?' or 'is this (important) feature possible?'.
please folks- get your heads out of your butts and understand that people with ideas, yet no other measureable skills, are just as important to the success of a game as any other responsibility in a game's development.
if programmers and icon-makers are so gods-be great, we'd have far more great games on BYOND, instead of people bickering about 'what are you gonna do' posts, which only waste space- or worse, require myself and other forum mods to spend extra time weeding out this kind of pointless roughage.
now then: continued whining about a person's role in a future game will likely get whacked for wasting forum space. if ya gotta complain like that, communicate directly with the poster, or via the pager, or via another forum. not here.
save us the trouble- please. why not listen to the ideas first. you may learn something, or discover that it is interesting enough to join in. |
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