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Most of the top loved games have one of the following.

-Complex scripts
-A unique idea
-Nice visuals
-A fairly long playtime
-Involves some charcter associated with popular tv shows/video games eg. Naruto,mario,pokemon

Making a game with any of the things I mentioned won't guarantee a lot of views but I think it would improve your chances.

I agree with MyRedNeptune in that I do feel that popular characters are overused.  When you use somebody else's character, you are using their marketing and helping to further their marketing goals.  Nothing wrong with that, just be aware that that is what you are doing.  They certainly are popular though.

I feel you should focus on game design:  what do you like to play?  What kind of things hold your attention and give you enjoyment?   Is it imagining how you will look in the future (look at the popularity of the Dress-up games)?   Imagining yourself as a more powerful person (most of the character based games)?  I like to build things that let others be creative (drawing projects, art projects, toolkits).   I've had my best  success by picking classic board games and redoing them in Scratch.   However, some of MY favorite projects that I (or others) have done have not gotten many views or much popular support but I still find them entertaining and am glad that they were created.  I get more pleasure out of the creation process and improving my skills than from the popularity of how the projects are received.

Once you build something that you are proud of and want others to see, it is important to add it to a bunch of galleries and talk about it in the Show and Tell forum so people know it is out there.  Hope some of this helps, looking forward to seeing your creations!

MyRedNeptune wrote:

archmage wrote:

-Involves some charcter associated with popular tv shows/video games eg. Naruto,mario,pokemon

I'm so annoyed with these being in the Tops section. 

I kinda think they're dumb.

I agree so much with you here!

I'd much rather see a original and well made game get top loved then a game riding off the popularity of some T.V. show or something.

Jman720 wrote:

Agreed. I think Pokemon Deserves to get a nno game rule here on scratch.  It makes me wan't to puke!

I don't mind it when high quality projects based off of pokemon or whatever get frontpage. When a project low quality project with popular chracters gets frontpage I get upset sometimes 

Last edited by archmage (2007-12-29 14:35:02)

We try to feature projects that use original characters. It's nice to see original work from young designers. Some people argue that we should stop simply recreating the content the big media conglomerates is always trying push into our heads.

archmage wrote:

Most of the top loved games have one of the following.

-Complex scripts
-A unique idea
-Nice visuals
-A fairly long playtime
-Involves some charcter associated with popular tv shows/video games eg. Naruto,mario,pokemon

Making a game with any of the things I mentioned won't guarantee a lot of views but I think it would improve your chances.

I saw the pic you linked to in your sig. Is that really true or did you just edit it in a Paint Editor? 
The biggest amount I had was about 200 in one day.

archmage wrote:

MyRedNeptune wrote:

archmage wrote:

Most of the top loved games have one of the following.

-Complex scripts
-A unique idea
-Nice visuals
-A fairly long playtime
-Involves some charcter associated with popular tv shows/video games eg. Naruto,mario,pokemon

Making a game with any of the things I mentioned won't guarantee a lot of views but I think it would improve your chances.

I saw the pic you linked to in your sig. Is that really true or did you just edit it in a Paint Editor? 
The biggest amount I had was about 200 in one day.

No, it's true, I didn't edit it or anything. I have 1030 messages right now 

lol, lucky. ^_^

Jman720 wrote:

It is just because you do not delete them and recive them when you get a comment.

Not that it is bad or anything.

I like to save them 

Do you guys delete your messages?

I delete my messages.

I like plenty of comments because I am interested to see what poeple think about my project.

What could make the visuals even better is that scratch has better quality, like adobe photoshop or bmp., Because all I can see in those terragen images that I have is ugly pixels ruining the image.