Do you play your own games? Do you make games just for yourself?

d000hg · 2015-02-03T11:33:39

The RTS thread reminded me about my old RTS project, which got about as far as something one could call a real RTS but only just - scripting missions by hand in XML, the crummiest of A.I possible. But what I loved was the idea of being able to make an RTS I wanted to play - all the classic RTS games of the time had fairly small things missing which I was convinced would be awesome. My ideas grew to loads of stuff I haven't seen in games but I never even started on those things - however I dug out an old copy of my game a few months ago and was surprised to find I actually quite enjoyed playing it even though the graphics were buggy and the sound didn't work. To those of you awesome enough to have made full games for sale/work, do you play your own games? Do any of you make games just because you want to play that game and nobody else has made it yet?

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Started by d000hg January 29, 2015 09:03 PM

10 comments, last by latch 9 years, 2 months ago

Endurion

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February 03, 2015 06:15 AM

Port it to PC and you won't be alone :P

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latch

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February 03, 2015 11:33 AM

I'm a hobbyist, so: I make games usually for myself. Bonus points if someone else likes them

Usually I cannot see a game anymore after the final phase. But there are the rare occasions where I do like to replay. It highly depends on the kind of game though. Randomized/procedural things have a better personal replay rate than strict designed ones.

It's however quite nice to return to a self made game after a few years.