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First article - Game Making : Criticism

I've decided to write some Articles/Mini Rants on lots of various subjects dealing with things I know about, or just have a strong opinion on or mostly my life and job. The whole point of this is to just vent my ideas and hopefully make you, the reader, stop and actually think about it and look at things from a different angle. And hell, maybe I'll even teach you a thing or two.

The first would be my take on criticism. It fits well with the first topic because I deal with it A LOT and also showing why I don't have comments on the site anymore.

I removed comments on articles like this and games because here on my website, I just wanna show you it. It's not up for debate. I'm simply showing it to you and you take from it what you will. Yes I very much hope you like it more then hate it, but after a while on the internet you get sick of the spammy trolling crap over and over. You get to a point where it's too tiring to see, and having one good comment amongst 5 spam ones isn't worth cleaning by myself. I'd rather an email, if you took the time to email me and say you liked it, then I see it as much more personal and am more grateful. Usually trolls cant bebothered sending emails, so this is a great way. Heck, if you even like this article feel free to send an email saying you agree so I can write more. I just read comments on NG and such where it's easier to see since they are more modded, I do a bit on Kongregate, but not as much since they are more spoilt kids over their. You needa find the better communities. And it's enough for me for one game now.

So, The whole purpose of this is, THINK ABOUT WHAT I SAY. Don't take my word for it. Always question it and apply your own things you've learn't to what I say.

Whenever you make anything in life, you're gonna have to deal with the criticism, and it's harsh and will make you mad. I wish I could say I'm a better person to not get mad over it, but even I sometimes get pushed to the edge. After spending months working on a game only to be told over and over how shit it is, it can hurt and people forget that. But over time I've gotten used to it and you have to if you want to grow as a person. You also start to become a harsh person on comments as they are harsh on you. You stereotype them into either troll/simply mean/helpful criticism. Basically the first 2 options theirs no point even reading what they say. They simply just wanna piss you off. The more successful the game, the more trolls there is.

Over the years I have changed a bit on comment reading. I used to read every single one and couldn't wait to see what they say. I still do love the feedback, but I'm more jaded now. I only need to read a certain amount on my latest project and then I've had enough because of the overwhelming crap and hatred you gotta sift through. Now I'm just loving to create more and just put it out their then leaving my piece to fend for itself. I can't sit their arguing why it's good or bad all day. It's too tiring, and you'll burn out.

You needa learn to let it go and just let people decide for themselfs. I now create for the people that genuinely love to play them, they are the ones you wanna show and enjoy their comments. This is not to say you shouldn't go get criticism, I still do have the people I wanna impress that will always say it's shit, but I know the REASON I make something isn't for them, I have them just to improve and will always value them, but you gotta remember to take it in equal doses.

It's all about balance. If you only take the harsh ones then you'll start to think you really suck and give up on what you started. If you only take the good ones you'll never improve. It's about striking that balance, but most of all it's not even about them at all. You make something cause YOU WANT to make it. Showing everyone else is just the side bonus. You never had to make it in the first place, and they never had to play it. Don't ever forget that. If you start getting angry at what they're saying, simply tell them you're sorry they didn't like what you made, so stop playing it, and hopefully you can impress them better next time.

I've had some people who say my games are shit every single time and I could never work it out, then I release a game that was a specific genre and all of a sudden they loved it. You finally work out these people were never actually open or knew anything, they just wanted what they wanted. It took me all this time to realise they didn't actually fairly rate something I made, they were just biased and wanted something I wasn't giving. So you really needa realise who these people are and just ignore them at times.

That's pretty much the end of my first rant. It's my experiences on it all so far, hey I'm still young. Maybe my view will change later. The moral I really think, is take everything in healthy doses. Never get too angry, but never be too close minded to what people say to you. Just work out who are the people that are worth listening too, and who arn't.

Category: Articles Posted by Eggy on Dec 17, 2009

Lately it's just.

I'm moving outta home in 3 weeks or so (AGAIN) Which the good news is I'll have to make much more games since I'll be paying rent and food. Gar, bills! argghhh, laundry?! noo. Dishes!? GAY. But a kick in the butt is probably what I need so it will be good. Plus I'm moving in with my other flash friend Drew who I work with sometimes like The Infection. So we should start getting lots done. I hope, maybe.

Besides that my new game is close to done but stalled from general life crap lately. Like Christmas! god I hate it. Waste of time and money. I'd rather be playing video games then having to sit around with family. Gosh! Just HORRIBLE! DON'T THEY REALISE I HAVE ZOMBIES TO KILL!

Another thing is my Eczema has been bad. It's pretty much my lifelong curse to balance out my awesomeness. I've had it since birth and get it pretty much as bad as you can. Though I guess it kept me indoors which led to gaming and game making, so in a way it had one good outcome. It's so sore currently though on my neck that I can't turn it cause it hurts too much from the redness after I scratched it :(

Ho Ho Ho, Merry fucking christmas.

Category: Life Posted by Eggy on Dec 12, 2009

HON and Whining

Again my game making came to a halt from being addicted to the game "Heroes of Newerth" It's the proper made game of DOTA from a WC3 mod map. It's completely awesome. (If you have it and wanna play, you're welcome to play with me. I'm "Eggy55555") Playing recently with the type of community this game holds really brings up a lot of game making things to watch out for.

There is an argument called "Playing to Win" vs "Cheap Tactics". What this is, is using cheap tactics within the game to win that people frown upon. In HON you can sneak into their base and kill their towers before creeps get there. In FPS games it's known as camping or in fighting games you keep pressing one quick attack over and over. So should you do it? The answer is YES.

The reason is, people say you're the bad player for using these cheap tactics. However this is a flawed way of thinking, THEY are actually the bad players for not coming up with ways to counter these. If you go to a gaming tournament they will use every trick and tactic to win whether it's cheap or not. The more you play the game, the more you come up with counter tactics to these cheap moves. It's as simple as that.

Is he camping? Throw some grenades around the corner next time. Is he backdooring? Keep a teleport on you at all times. Is he spamming the same button over and over? Find an attack that can counter his or block it. People that whine about these things are locked in their of set of rules that they think everyone else should follow.

People won't understand this unless they reach a higher level of gaming. The only game I consider myself a complete PRO at would be Halo 3, and after playing so long, all the cheap tactics people say are cheap and unfair I actually love when people use because I have counters to them that actually make it even easier for me. I even come across counters to my counters and I have to come up with counters to that, and the list goes on.

Bottom line is - Before you say something is cheap, try and improve and learn to beat it first.

This is not to be confused with "Cheating" Cheating is using things outside the game to hack it or completely change things which is of course illegal and not fair.

Category: Gaming Posted by Eggy on Oct 19, 2009

100th Comic Done

I never intended to make so many comics when I started. They were just a silly side thing I wanted to do. Eventually the style started to grow till I had a little stick design and template that I liked and just kept going with it, till now It's taken on a life of it's own and has it's own unique style.

Now the 100th comic is up! Marking a milestone. The funny thing is the comics section is getting more views then my games but that would be due to people clicking through multiple pages which adds the page views up as opposed to one view for being on a game for a while.

In case you're retarded and can't see the link to comics up the top in the nav bar I'll link it here for you.

http://www.eggysgames.com/theeggcomic.php

Category: Eggys Games News Posted by Eggy on Sep 14, 2009

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