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Author: honestgamer
Posted: February 28, 2011 (06:17 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I hope you're up for a line crit...
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: February 28, 2011 (11:06 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks, Jason! I can't believe I missed some of those errors. The second or third paragraph you were referencing I originally intended to condense down. I appreciate the critique.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: February 28, 2011 (11:16 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Short doesn't bother me (see: my review of Game Dev Story) as long as there's reason to keep playing it after you "beat" it. I'd say brevity works to a game's advantage these days for me, more often than not. I wish more developers would realize that... or that more gamers would realize it so that more developers could act on pre-existing realization. Or something.
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Author: jerec
Posted: February 28, 2011 (11:28 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Short games are good between all those big 30+ hour games.
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: March 01, 2011 (12:05 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Indeed. I appreciate a good short game now and then. That one just caught me off guard as to how short it was. Still, you can keep doing more after the closing credits, only without stringent demands.
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Author: Masters (Mod)
Posted: March 01, 2011 (05:18 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Incidentally, how long is this short game?
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Author: JoeTheDestroyer (Mod)
Posted: March 01, 2011 (10:47 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Mostly depends on whether or not you get a game over. It took me just under ten hours to finish it, but had I not gotten the one game over and just hauled right through it, it probably would have been more like six or seven. I think the main reason I found it short is that I was expecting something like twenty. Not that I'm saying the shortness is necessarily a flaw.
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