Comments for Hit the Apex http://hit-the-apex.com Game design articles, theories and level concepts by Chris Roper. Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Length by don http://hit-the-apex.com/2010/07/11/length/#comment-50 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:23:10 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=55#comment-50 When this generation first came out I would railagainst games that were “too” short recently my opinion has changed.
When I look back at games I played groing up I used to never complain that I could come home and finish Contra or Mario in less than a minute. Adjusted for inflation those games cost more than games do now.

]]> Comment on Level Concept: Lost City by Chris Roper http://hit-the-apex.com/2011/08/30/level-concept-lost-city/#comment-49 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:45:29 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=110#comment-49 I have all three installed as well, all in their default locations, so I didn’t really need to set anything up and they all worked as expected. Google is probably your best friend in this case…

]]> Comment on Level Concept: Lost City by Olly http://hit-the-apex.com/2011/08/30/level-concept-lost-city/#comment-48 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:07:01 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=110#comment-48 I have Crysis 2, Sandbox, and Cryengine3 SDK installed, perhaps the fact I have all of them is causing problems? though the Sandbox and SDK are in different directories. The SDK opens the test level with the lighthouse but not the Crysis 2 levels, which makes vague sense. But the sandbox refuses to open anything. Which were you using?

]]> Comment on Level Concept: Lost City by Chris Roper http://hit-the-apex.com/2011/08/30/level-concept-lost-city/#comment-47 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:21:14 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=110#comment-47 Thanks. Do you have Crysis 2 installed? I had no issues, so I don’t have any troubleshooting tips, unfortunately. I don’t know if it matters, but you might want to make sure that you’ve installed the Crysis 2 editor as opposed to the full CryEngine SDK – I’m not sure whether or not the latter will load the game’s assets.

]]> Comment on Level Concept: Lost City by Olly http://hit-the-apex.com/2011/08/30/level-concept-lost-city/#comment-46 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:36:55 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=110#comment-46 I downloaded the sandbox editor the other day and can’t even get it to load existing levels. Any chance you’ll be doing a tutorial at any point? Great work by the way.

Beyond!

Olly

]]> Comment on Length by Sahil http://hit-the-apex.com/2010/07/11/length/#comment-38 Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:37:08 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=55#comment-38 If a game is good enough to justify it’s length then I really don’t mind. For example, if Shadow of the Colossus required me to fight through 50 different colossi to get to the end, I would gladly oblige just because that game was so damn good.

]]> Comment on Length by Christian http://hit-the-apex.com/2010/07/11/length/#comment-37 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:22:57 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=55#comment-37 There was an article on Kotaku on this subject last week in which a developer claimed he had pegged the perfect length of the RPG. (http://m.kotaku.com/5583150/the-ideal-length-of-a-role-playing-game-is)
Personally I don’t think there is a magic number for length. I mean imagine the main story of Oblivion or Fallout being 40 hours. It would just end up diluted (like Dragon Age IMO). I like the idea of games being divvied into subgroups based on length, not unlike television media i.e. Movies, network television, specials, etc.

]]> Comment on Length by Walter http://hit-the-apex.com/2010/07/11/length/#comment-34 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:11:42 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=55#comment-34 Great read.
I’ve also run into the same problem of not having enough time to play as I’d like and can’t agree more the length of games seem too long. While I think they need to in order to justify the $60 price tag, I do think there should be a market for cheaper shorter games. Otherwise, guys like you and me will be left to watch our backlogs grow and grow.

]]> Comment on Length by Devil240Z http://hit-the-apex.com/2010/07/11/length/#comment-33 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:59:35 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=55#comment-33 Totally agree. I find alot of games to be too long for me to commit to finishing them rather than move on to a different newer game. I wish there were shorter games out there to play. Games that maybe cost in the 10-20 dollar range and can be beaten in three to five hours and have some kind of narrative and aren’t just arcadey games like shatter or geometry wars which are both great games and at a cheap price but contain zero narrative.

]]> Comment on Length by Scott http://hit-the-apex.com/2010/07/11/length/#comment-32 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:56:25 +0000 http://hit-the-apex.com/?p=55#comment-32 Good read.

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