CarMan1390
07-18-2008, 10:14 PM
Copypasta from The Helion Code (http://www.mrsunstudios.com/blog/2008/07/18/50-ways-to-make-us-hate-your-flash-game/). I think this is really helpful on what you should not do.
Add loud and annoying sound effects to your game
Don’t add a mute buttons so we have to listen to your loud and annoying sound effects
Make your game ridiculously hard
Don’t put in a preloader
Have a confusing menu system
Forget to embed all of your dynamic textfields
Make a game (http://www.addictinggames.com/thebouncyball.html) from a tutorial (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2007/03/04/create-a-flash-draw-game-like-line-rider-or-others-part-4/) and submit it without making any kinds of changes
Have sloppy art
Add Mochiads (http://www.mochiads.com/) everywhere (unless you need to load external stuff everywhere)
Don’t optimize your code
Add a bunch of cool effects that require lots of processing power but can’t be deactivated
Don’t fix the bugs
Have long animations that we can’t skip
Don’t credit the artists of the music
Don’t compress the music
Don’t give us a clear goal to beat the game (although some games (http://www.afro-ninja.com/vflash.php?id=41) can pull this off)
Add glow effects to everything
Give us a seizure
Make confusing controls
Make the screen really really big
Make the screen really really small
Have a really fast frame rate
Make links navigate from the current page, not a blank page
Don’t put checkpoints anywhere when you have a long game
If you let us save the game, don’t also add an autosave function. We’ll definitely remember
Make us buy a “premium version” in order to keep playing the game
Make the instructions all text with no explanatory pictures/diagrams
Make a storyline without an animation to explain it
Make it easy for us to cheat
Create an ugly color scheme
Make the text unreadable
Don’t let the buttons look like buttons, we’ll obviously find them very easily
Make us wait a long time to play or while playing your game
Host your game on a slow server
Don’t fix the typos
Make fun of us
Very repetitive gameplay
Don’t let us pause the game
Add pointless features that add a lot of file size
Insult our intelligence
Make a really long menu system
Make us have to navigate through the entire menu system after we lose the game
Camouflage the enemies so we can’t see them until we randomly begin losing health or lose the game
Don’t put rollOver functions onto your buttons
Make gameplay really slow
Make loss inevitable
Don’t put in a scoring system. We don’t want to know how well we did
Make stupid computer AI
Deceive us
Make the description of the game really short or really obscure
Add loud and annoying sound effects to your game
Don’t add a mute buttons so we have to listen to your loud and annoying sound effects
Make your game ridiculously hard
Don’t put in a preloader
Have a confusing menu system
Forget to embed all of your dynamic textfields
Make a game (http://www.addictinggames.com/thebouncyball.html) from a tutorial (http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2007/03/04/create-a-flash-draw-game-like-line-rider-or-others-part-4/) and submit it without making any kinds of changes
Have sloppy art
Add Mochiads (http://www.mochiads.com/) everywhere (unless you need to load external stuff everywhere)
Don’t optimize your code
Add a bunch of cool effects that require lots of processing power but can’t be deactivated
Don’t fix the bugs
Have long animations that we can’t skip
Don’t credit the artists of the music
Don’t compress the music
Don’t give us a clear goal to beat the game (although some games (http://www.afro-ninja.com/vflash.php?id=41) can pull this off)
Add glow effects to everything
Give us a seizure
Make confusing controls
Make the screen really really big
Make the screen really really small
Have a really fast frame rate
Make links navigate from the current page, not a blank page
Don’t put checkpoints anywhere when you have a long game
If you let us save the game, don’t also add an autosave function. We’ll definitely remember
Make us buy a “premium version” in order to keep playing the game
Make the instructions all text with no explanatory pictures/diagrams
Make a storyline without an animation to explain it
Make it easy for us to cheat
Create an ugly color scheme
Make the text unreadable
Don’t let the buttons look like buttons, we’ll obviously find them very easily
Make us wait a long time to play or while playing your game
Host your game on a slow server
Don’t fix the typos
Make fun of us
Very repetitive gameplay
Don’t let us pause the game
Add pointless features that add a lot of file size
Insult our intelligence
Make a really long menu system
Make us have to navigate through the entire menu system after we lose the game
Camouflage the enemies so we can’t see them until we randomly begin losing health or lose the game
Don’t put rollOver functions onto your buttons
Make gameplay really slow
Make loss inevitable
Don’t put in a scoring system. We don’t want to know how well we did
Make stupid computer AI
Deceive us
Make the description of the game really short or really obscure