Hello everybody!

For a school project, me and a friend of mine will research the aspects of what makes a fun video game, and when the research is finished, we'll actually create a game based on our conclusions.

The first fase of our research is to ask people what aspects of video games they like most.

Please take in mind: The answers to each question vary per game, of course, one answer doesn't work out well for all games in the world. So please answer what aspects you prefer with games when choosing what game to play, and not what aspects all video games in the world should have.

Link to the survey:
https://surveyplanet.com/57a0fec182024cac2d7a94c4

Many thanks in advance, Lolslayer.
Edited by lolslayer on Aug 3, 2016 at 02:52 PM
Edited by lolslayer on Aug 3, 2016 at 02:52 PM

Submitted.

I've also completed your survey.
One thing you're missing though in alot of questions is a "No particular preference" option. Personally I enjoy a wide variety of completely different games, and the answers to your questions can't really be quantified universally. Still though, I'd prefer a "No preference" option over "No idea", since I do know that I don't have a preference in some cases :-)

I'm interested though if any notable statistics come out of some of these questions.

What engine will you lads be using? (Having used both, I'd recommend Unity for programmers (C# is fantastic fun to work with), UE4 for artists).

Am I doing this right

You forgot Neko girls.

God I hate nekopara.

Thank you everybody for submitting on the survey!

Yes, the results will be used for the final product, so please stop trolling (was it you mannypetty?)

Colour is color, but than British.

The engine we'll be using is game maker. This is because that's the engine we both have the most experience with. Because of this being a school project, it won't be big like a mmorpg or even something close to that. We've still got to finish a lot of research and the game must be finished somewhere in november, we really don't have much time for a big game, sorry for that.

We should indeed have included the "other" option with every question, but that's too late for now. We'll probably think of this in future surveys

This won't be the only survey, there will be 2 more in the future. The first one we'll take a few example games and ask some questions about them, like what aspects made these games good.

The second survey will be a little bit more special. Before we create our final product, we'll create 3 prototype games (they'll look awful and they will probably be filled with a lot of placeholders). All 3 games will be able to download. After playing all of them, you can vote which one we'll finish.

The most notable things I think I've seen in the survey is the fact that people don't want regular but big updates.
Also notable was the fact that people wanted the game to be a mystery, keep it a surprise. Atm more then 60% voted for that option.




Some trolls:







Edited by lolslayer on Aug 4, 2016 at 08:43 AM
Edited by lolslayer on Aug 4, 2016 at 08:46 AM

I didn't get to vote. :(

?

At least I can create games...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP1uiBsADS8

I don't limit myself to game maker, I would like to see you beat this.

OMG if you could create walls and stuff like that and have them show up in real time in game that would be so leet.

Imagine a 3ds max setting where you how two viewports beside eachother, the viewport on the right would be where you can create your structure and stuff.

The view port on the left would relay your creations in an ingame graphical setting.


:o

The difference is that I actually programmed this engine, I wouldn't get on that high horse if you don't know how to code something better mkay?
Edited by lolslayer on Aug 4, 2016 at 02:07 PM

Dafuq u on nub. I was making a suggestion, if you don't like my suggestions then why don't YOU get off your high horse.

I programmed this engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWG94ub7wqM&feature=youtu.be&t=19s

Cheers.
But good start, we all start somewhere. My first OpenGL program was a noice triangle.

I just used straight-up directx .x meshes on the original xbox with a phoenix loaded XDK bios. Was fun until I tried messing with COM stuff :)

And then you learn that all of the Original xbox controller buttons were pressure sensitive. The 360 ones aren't
Edited by OrangeJuice on Aug 4, 2016 at 05:58 PM

I'm sorry if that was a legit suggestion, but it seemed like you made fun of a project I spent hours of work and research on...



Game maker is at least better then flash though :/




REALLY nice Dalode :)



Original Xbox master race!
Edited by lolslayer on Aug 4, 2016 at 06:48 PM

Submitted too.

Can you really just use straight up C# in Unity?

Thank you very much!

Naturally of course, because contributing Ideas and showing enthusiasm is synonymous with making fun and light abuse.



Did your survey.



You need more: "other" dialogues for pretty much every question. You could also benefit from a "what games do you play and why" field to help gauge gaming motivations.

Yes. The options you have are:
- C#
- Javascript
- Unity script
But it is heavily recommended to use C#.

1) Having used both, I do prefer Unity.
Disclaimer: I never played around very much with UE4's C++, I stuck to blueprints.
But C# vs Blueprints, for me the preference is very clearly C#. But I can imagine that artists may find C# coding daunting.
2) C# is easier in the sense that you cannot as easily break things with it. Doing the wrong things with C++ can blow up your computer. C++ requires you to do your own memory management, C# has its own garbage collection systems.
3) Blam only has that weird scripting language, despite having used it for years, I never found out what language I was actually using. Cheers to that.

It's Halo Script, a derivative of LISP

Anyways, Unity is pretty easy to use. You can throw lazy garbage code at it, and it just works lol. I've done things quite quickly with unity with no effort. I don't know what kind of overhead it requires for it to manage things so nicely, but I'm sure there has to be some.

Yo Kirbs why aren't we connected on Skype familia.

I really don't like the growing heap of trash that is unity titles, but if you can really just outright push C# code into it without some kind of intermediary I'm really intrigued.

You seem to have experience with it, lod3, may I ask if that is the case? Is C# just an optional substitute for Unityscript or does it function on a lower level?

Unity's workflow revolves around creating game objects, and adding components to them to achieve desired behavior. These components can be things Unity foresees, such as render components, audio components, etc. But all gameplay related components can be pure C# scripts. Unityscript, from what I've read, is no longer being promoted. Rather you can see C# as its replacement nowadays.

Not sure what you mean about functioning on a lower level.

Unity generates a nice Visual Studio project for you to enhance the C# coding experience, and debugging works great in this setup as well.

Unity seems to have had the reputation of being graphically inferior to UE4, but since Unity 5, I really can't say anymore.
Just watch this tech demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXI0l3yqBrA

@lolSlayer: sorry for turning this into the "Should I use Unity thread".

I'd say graphically, it doesn't matter much anymore nowadays. Since both engines allow you to program your own low-level shaders if you really wanted something specific

Yeah sorry, somehow it really sounded like some kind of mocking

Thank you! :)

And yeah, we'll add more "other" boxes in the next survey



Only for 3D, I prefer game maker for 2D, and actually, also on 3D, little bit experimenting with shaders to add some nice 3D effects is always fun :)
Edited by lolslayer on Aug 7, 2016 at 05:32 AM

"One can never have enough surveys."
- Donald Duck

"One can never have enough boxes."

- Holanimator.

"This meme is now dead, add on at your peril"

- Flanka chan.

1v1 me m8 i will str8 rek u in unity.


Edited by Super Alex on Sep 8, 2016 at 01:41 PM