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I agree. Not to mention that many of these "original game ideas" are just re-workings of the Oddysee/SligStorm idea! I had to do Oddworld Party because I felt that the Fan Corner was full of platform games  .
I have two questions all aspiring game designers should answer before making an Oddworld game;
1) Does it really have to use the established Oddworld main characters and locales?
2) Does it really have to be a platformer? Why not a FPS or turn-based? |
What's wrong with platformers? There is a lot of them because people just want to recreate the oddworld feel.
I prefer full on story games / platformers, to arcade / short games, and some people prefer it vice versa, so really, the question people should be asking themselves is:
Do I have time and effort to create new characters and will new characters compromise the graphics / feel of the game?
What type of game would my audience most enjoy / demand?
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I think the icons are a good idea, along with the stickied thread.
Really we need to organize threads by catagory, such as, fanfic, game, video, graphics, etc. It would make browsing so much easier. The icons would cover that partly, but actually separating them into groups would be good. (I don't mean separate forums, just visually separated.)