Is it just a game?

[Mercen-X]

This is a note to all aspiring game designers: IT'S NOT JUST A GAME!!!

If you're a person who has suggested that a game producer (especially Square) would create an in-game feature just to create it without providing an in-game reason (story-wise) for why it exists, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT EVEN THINK OF BEING A GAME DESIGNER!

If you do aspire to make games and think you can put things in just to put them in, then you are a disgrace.

Games, like movies, are not something to be assembled hurriedly sans attention to detail. If you dream of being a game-maker . . . never say, "It's just a game."

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Sometimes that's the answer, though, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[Del Murder]

It's only just a game when I lose.

[Mercen-X]

Well, I wasn't being as specific as I'd intended anyway. I meant that if you're one who thinks it is alright to include something without explanation other than "It's just a game," then you shouldn't be a game designer.

It's only just a game when I lose.

All players should know it's just a game, but no game designer should ever think that way.

[Del Murder]

Video games are the parchments and canvases of our time. Who will be the next Picasso? The next Poe?

It could be you.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I guess that officially makes you an unfit game-maker, Kishi.

If by "officially," you mean "in the opinion of a lunatic."

[Rase]

But Link NEEDS a Rocket Launcher to combat EVIL!!

[Lionx]

A game is not just a game to me, its just a game to the players who will piss and moan about little things. However when you are one doing the ideas the work and the sweat into it, it is everything that your imagination wants. Even bad games(some) take a lot of time to do and think of. So when people say they suck because of graphics or whatever little things like that, they have no idea how games work and how hard and important it is to the develpers and the team working on it. Just a game? Hardly if you are making it, to the players however meh.

[Dreddz]

I never takes games seriosly, I play them to have fun.....

[Craig]

All players should know it's just a game, but no game designer should ever think that way.

If Gamers are going to treat it as "just a game" the Designer shouldn't think any different.

[bipper]

X, here is the thing. Whe games are published by a large staff, communication causes several things to get over looked. Like Sephiorth's sheath Final Fantasy usually has a number of plotholes, granted. When you have many collaberating ideas, things happen. The product you start with is never the product you end with.

I have worked on several projects now (basic programs) but you never hit all the bases you were trying to. You could, but that takes time. In the fiscal world, and technology worlds, you don't have time to worry about everything. I do agree that the design teams should laminate out better project plans, but $$ talks louder than quality I guess

And you can't say I am not a game designer - so
Bipper

[Destai]

I know this is way off topic and Im missing the point but this reminds me of when that evangelion fanboy came up to one of the makers and said he read Gendos lips to see what the last thing he said to ritsuko was and then the maker had to explain to the guy that evangelion was a cartoon.

[Madame Adequate]

Anyone who enters any artistic medium with anything less than the desire to create beauty is a hack and has no business being there.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

But Link NEEDS a Rocket Launcher to combat EVIL!!

[Lionx]

Next stop, GTA: Hyrule.