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I think it’s pretty sad. I want to say Idle Worship ~~wasn’t~~ isn’t a bad game. I think it has an amazing first impression. I can’t think of anything terrible that it does to hinder the gameplay itself, but I can say that the monetization was definitely off. Why buy defense when it won’t filter out a whole lot of anything? Kill spells (though rare) don’t even get filtered.

I think it could have been cooler. Simply that. I think developers get very wrapped up in meticulous planning, and studying game design articles, that they forget why people play at all. I was an evil god. Why wasn’t my island FLAMING IN TERROR? Why couldn’t I use my nasty spells to kill some enemy NPCs as part of a giant war on the blobites? That would have been cool. Yet, I played until level 35, killing only time.

I will not spend another penny on IW, but I’m glad I at least watched tons of videos for them. I’m sad to see IW in such trouble. I wonder for its future.

update: wait no! Just remembered - the wood problem! Man I wonder how many people quit just because the game very quickly devolves into “regen tree for 3 days”. Simple changes! Make trees max out at 12 wood… and then make them grow twice as fast, and auto-set mudlings to chop until 1 wood is left, not 2.

Vael Victus game designer extraordinaire B|

2012-09-20 21:02| short link: http://tmblr.co/ZLxRZyTmlsxV

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I’m going on another Idle Worship hiatus, and hopefully for a month+ or I’ll just quit. :P

It’s been dictating my life again. Today I was just trying to make newbies quit as usual, then some level 60 (max, and ridiculous; few people are max) comes and says WHY YOU DOING THAT, I say, “I’m evil! :3”

I eventually debated with about morality, she ignored me, and I threatened to hurt the newbies she protects if she attacks. She did, and I’ve got to say I was rather surprised with how good my defenses were. But of course, not against her legions of followers she had. :{ I mean she really was ridiculous, she couldn’t have logged off… ever. Her island was full of these energy orbs that must have cost someone a whole lot of damn money to buy. It was just silly.

I think I might just learn to stay away from these social games. They end the same. Backyard Monsters, for how good I was? Destroyed in two days. Literally everything I had worked for. (though I provoked heavily)

I just can’t keep up with these people who dedicate their time to the game, and so I end up like them, and here I am with way too much fucking time wasted today, while I’m supposed to be here at work making Bean Grower. :{ Feels bad, man, so I uninstalled IW.

… and that’s what happened.

2012-09-14 16:14| short link: http://tmblr.co/ZLxRZyTNoYMZ

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