Comments on: Application Overload http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/ The Best Strategy Game Blog in My House Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jonathanstrange http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-84236 jonathanstrange Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:45:23 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/#comment-84236 Which among us, after playing a great game, hasn't said "You know what would be cool? If they added..." I wouldn't be the first to want to control a galactic empire, adjust tax rates, queue production items, command a spacefleet in battle, pilot a starfighter, board an enemy vessel, fight alien troopers in a narrow hallway as we attempt to seize control of the bridge - all in the same game. Which among us, after playing a great game, hasn’t said “You know what would be cool? If they added…”

I wouldn’t be the first to want to control a galactic empire, adjust tax rates, queue production items, command a spacefleet in battle, pilot a starfighter, board an enemy vessel, fight alien troopers in a narrow hallway as we attempt to seize control of the bridge – all in the same game.

]]> By: Alan http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-84032 Alan Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:19:53 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/#comment-84032 Also, quit sending me Facebook fortune/zombie/likeness/hockey/ninja/aquarium application sign-ups! Also, quit sending me Facebook fortune/zombie/likeness/hockey/ninja/aquarium application sign-ups!

]]> By: Cautiously Pessimistic http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-83947 Cautiously Pessimistic Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:06:28 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/#comment-83947 Well, in my defense, my point wasn't that the game ought to have slavery implemented, but that it was a bit dishonest to say the slave trade had no military or economic importance. If they don't want to include it, no skin off my nose; but to say it has no bearing on the variables the game models seemed a bit of a cop out. Rereading the PR statement, they don't explicitly say that, so maybe I was reading too much into the tone of the quote. Well, in my defense, my point wasn’t that the game ought to have slavery implemented, but that it was a bit dishonest to say the slave trade had no military or economic importance. If they don’t want to include it, no skin off my nose; but to say it has no bearing on the variables the game models seemed a bit of a cop out.

Rereading the PR statement, they don’t explicitly say that, so maybe I was reading too much into the tone of the quote.

]]> By: Scott R. Krol http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-83944 Scott R. Krol Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:35:39 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/08/31/application-overload/#comment-83944 Exactamundo. Design creep is an evil thing, although there will always be members of the gaming community that don't understand the true elegance of game design is knowing what should be a primary goal, and what can be folded into secondary elements or left out all together. To them everything and the kitchen sink = end all, be all design. In a way it's like writing. You can take a 2,000 word short story and blow it out to 200,000 words if you want, but that doesn't make it better. But does it make it more comprehensible, or the opposite? Exactamundo. Design creep is an evil thing, although there will always be members of the gaming community that don’t understand the true elegance of game design is knowing what should be a primary goal, and what can be folded into secondary elements or left out all together. To them everything and the kitchen sink = end all, be all design.

In a way it’s like writing. You can take a 2,000 word short story and blow it out to 200,000 words if you want, but that doesn’t make it better. But does it make it more comprehensible, or the opposite?

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