Vexed Hedgehogs has 1500 plays at GameJolt. For me, this makes it far more successful than anything else I have made. A couple of my games have clocked over 1000 plays before, but this shows what you can achieve when you replace originality with cloning. Oh.
Mind you, chatting to a proper game developer the other day as he got his 1,000,000 th player for his commercial title keeps things in perspective.
The other joy is reading reviews in Russian, Italian and Czech where the fact that it relies on linguistic jokes that don't translate easily (sorry) means that it has been received as a fairly serious clone of Angry Birds. Oh dear.
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Talking very quietly about videogames
Identifying Characteristics
- Barry Atkins
- is an academic who conducts his serious games research and writing elsewhere. This is for the incidental, the ephemeral and the irrelevant. In no way has that anything to do with my employer university, so please understand that this is in no way associated with them. This is personal.
Shameless Self Promotion
My Game Maker Games
Distractions
Some Older Game Writings
- What Can Game Studies Learn from Spore?
- To Infinity, and Beyond?: Dialogue and Critique in Popular Cinema References to Video Games. [Abstract]
- We Are Having Fun, Aren’t We? Pleasure and Aesthetics in Narrative Videogames. [Paper]
- The Aesthetics of Iteration: The Plurality of Spectacle in Narrative Video Games. [Paper]
- “Can I Please Reload From Last Save-Game?”: Getting it Wrong (and Right) in a Nascent Field.[Paper]
- Portents of Doom III: Reading the Entrails of the Early Screenshots [Abstract]