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Topic	why do 95% of all indie games have to be difficult as fuck?
Mead 12/06/18 8:53:10 PM #38:	Sahuagin posted... Mead posted... I think a lot of them are very challenging because they have smaller dev teams and making a game difficult can pad the game time I don't think I really agree with this idea. games can't just arbitrarily be made difficult. difficulty shines a spotlight on the quality of a game's design. only a really well-designed game can be made very difficult without ruining it. (open to counter-examples.) I see what youre saying but pretty much all pre-16 bit games were made difficult due to technical limitations of the time. If the games werent hard they all would have been like five minutes long --- If they drag you through the mud, it doesnt change whats in your blood <cite>Mead posted [p:913671397] in why do 95%... [t:77274374]...</cite> <quote><cite>Sahuagin posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Mead posted...</cite> <quote>I think a lot of them are very challenging because they have smaller dev teams and making a game difficult can pad the game time</quote> I don't think I really agree with this idea. games can't just arbitrarily be made difficult. difficulty shines a spotlight on the quality of a game's design. only a really well-designed game can be made very difficult without ruining it. (open to counter-examples.)</quote> I see what youre saying but pretty much all pre-16 bit games were made difficult due to technical limitations of the time. If the games werent hard they all would have been like five minutes long --- If they drag you through the mud, it doesnt change whats in your blood</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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