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GReaper · 20 May 2009, 13:20

I think MrLobster is on the right tracks - the game was fun ~9 years ago, however in that time so many other games have raised the bar.

Back in 1999/2000(?) this was fairly revolutionary, a massive multiplayer game through a web browser. It didn't matter if you were on dialup, unlike the FPS games at the time where the low ping bastards were on ISDN. The game was reasonably simple (doesn't this look far easier to analyse than todays stats?), it was easy to play with friends, unless you really pissed someone off or you were a super high rank you wouldn't get bashed to death.

These days, anyone could probably clone Planetarion in a couple of months - it's nothing unique. People expect more, by more I don't mean a more complicated game, but more features. There are so many quality games competing and it feels like Planetarion has been stuck in a time warp with constant tweaks instead of major improvements.

Figure out the fun parts of the game and improve them, find out the shit parts of the game and eradicate them. Try and figure out what makes the game demoralising for some people as well.

20 May 2009, 13:20	#8
GReaper The BOFH Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 463	Re: This round from a noobs point of view I think MrLobster is on the right tracks - the game was fun ~9 years ago, however in that time so many other games have raised the bar. Back in 1999/2000(?) this was fairly revolutionary, a massive multiplayer game through a web browser. It didn't matter if you were on dialup, unlike the FPS games at the time where the low ping bastards were on ISDN. The game was reasonably simple (doesn't this look far easier to analyse than todays stats?), it was easy to play with friends, unless you really pissed someone off or you were a super high rank you wouldn't get bashed to death. These days, anyone could probably clone Planetarion in a couple of months - it's nothing unique. People expect more, by more I don't mean a more complicated game, but more features. There are so many quality games competing and it feels like Planetarion has been stuck in a time warp with constant tweaks instead of major improvements. Figure out the fun parts of the game and improve them, find out the shit parts of the game and eradicate them. Try and figure out what makes the game demoralising for some people as well.