Indie Games Wants Your Opinion about Minis
Gamasutra sister site Indie Games is apparently planning on writing an article about Minis and is doing a survey to gather information from Minis fans.
If you are visiting this site, that probably includes you, so why not go and take the survey? Hopefully Sony will read it and listen to the feedback provided.
(thanks to Alexey from Beatshapers and James from FuturLab for bringing this up)
That survey seemed mostly pointless seeing how damn near every single question on there was asking about adding something which is completely straying away from the original concept of the Minis in the first place; small, nicely priced, fun games for enjoying at any point (especially if you don’t have much time to jump back into a game of your favourite RPG/whatever game you’re playing)
Well some of questions, we as developers pushing hard. Would be nice to know what gamers want.
For us the main thing missed is online scoreboards. The rest are not really required for DLC.
I do want the minis program to be better, the way it is is good but the minis are limited because of lack of online play, trophies, dlc. Lets move it forward not backwards
Minis can be better technically, why not?, but his nature, for me, is for inmediate play… I dont want to connect online, dont need trophies, and DONT WANT DLC. I have “bigger” games that do it, and in my opinion, seems pointless to make minis the same i have in other games i play in home.
I love to play Canabalt in metro way to work, why the hell i need more? Ok, online scores sounds good, trophies… well, i know people addicted to it, and that can be integrated in the game… But… Really, why?
I think this survey is more for the future minis specifically for Vita , for explore the money micropayments in possible F2P facebook/android/Iphone style games and things like that. It seems the future is black.
I prefer to return to my Pac Man Championship Edition, Pixel Love Rush, Canabalt or SNK Minis.
Snowblind: Canabalt is exact example why I want online scoreboards to compete and spread the world.
The only questions from the survey that were worth asking included the ones pertaining to trophies/online play and technicality (i.e. graphics/sound). What it should’ve also asked is what type games that you want to see more of. I personally think I I’ve seen enough revamped classics from 80s as it is and have no interest in seeing yet another Arknoid-type game. Add more variety. Like fighting games, first person shooters, platform games, etc. At least I for one would take some sort of interest.