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> That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative. > And this is why I like
by graynk 6y ago
> That said, I try to insure that nothing I make wastes the players’ time by having them do things that aren’t productive or creative.
> And this is why I like Nintendo games.
I've sold my copy of Animal Crossing because I felt it did just that: wasted my time on meaningless repetitive tasks
- Cpoll 6y agoThat's what came to mind for me as well. The games have some fantastic elements, but a lot of the gameplay loops are designed to be slow. I recall reading that preventing 'assembly line' mechanics was a deliberate choice. As a result, in New Horizon you can't do bulk crafting, you need to perform multiple button presses and watch an animation for every single one. Shopping is equally bad, where buying stock from a visiting NPC takes orders of magnitude longer than it might in an RPG, because you need to button through multiple pages of dialogue after each purchase.