What would you like to see?

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:00 am

I contacted the makers of caveman capers and suggested 'Caveman Olympiad' where you pursue different disciplines between the prize bands.You however should in the pre-prize section always start with the javelin as traditionally (remember 80's olympic game) its relatively easy and finish between the penultimate prize and jackpot by a mad dash pursued by a t.rex which will gobble you up and your winnings if you are not quick enough.In each section a gold medal requirement will be posted and if it is beaten will reward the player with pass,bonus answer and try again or an elixir that will be a power boost for the rest of the duration of the section or even a swap feature that can be used at anytime during the rest of the game so that a person can replace their poorest discipline with their best.In the javelin section a pterodacytl gets it instead of the pigeon if the javelin goes to high! instead of this they brought out hells bells.shame.

anfield road · Post by **anfield road** » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:38 am

mr lugsy wrote:it would have to be 1 life and a time limit, but still an interesting option.

Yeah there would have to a time limit and suppose they would have to get rid of the old ''up, down, left, right and A and star together'' level select cheat

But I can guarentee I would get well hooked on that and would be playing it in all the ontop pubbs where you cant leave straight away after a win!

JG · Post by JG » Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:56 pm

A snail juggling.

(apologies to OP for frivolous answer, I'll read the thread now)

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:21 pm

(Taken this out for now - tweaking!)

kingzilla · Post by **kingzilla** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:37 pm

Omg what do you do for a living? i wish i had a job like yours

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:40 pm

Senior (lol) Information Analyst at a NHS Foundation Mental Health Trust.

Breif, and straight to the point!

cool · Post by **cool** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:38 pm

and also grammatically incorrect!

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:32 pm

Also true!

OK, officially, it;s:

xxxxxx NHS Foundation Trust
(Mental Health)

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 9:14 pm

that looks like a game i'd play Matt, apologies for the short post because you have obviously put a lot of time and effort into the game.

but it looks much more playable than a lot of the current crop. too many new games are rushed out without any thought for replayability.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:49 am

No worries, thanks for the response!

I'm going to put a few bits together over the next few days (time permitting) and see how viable it is.

kingzilla · Post by **kingzilla** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:57 am

Er Mat that thing is said about wanting a job like yours well i think i will stick to what i have. I am sure its very rewarding though

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:05 am

I'd like a clockwork badger that looked like Mayor Quimby.

kingzilla · Post by **kingzilla** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:57 am

I would like to see some decent skill games. I used to like Mad Money Mahjong which i think was done by the same guys who did Word Soup. I know some developers use the web for inspiration, there seems to be plenty of game ideas around there that are begging for conversion.

kingzilla · Post by **kingzilla** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:02 am

I thought we mite give this thread a revisit with HMRC making there decision on what can or cannot be on the current swp set up. I would personally want something that i can enjoy to play win or lose. For example i dont like games that are £1 that knock you out after a few seconds with stupid stumper's as spoilers. I also dont like timed games that leave you feeling you have been chased for a mile. I would just like something that was long enough and fair also maybe a decent return from time to time.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:19 pm

What would I like? Ooh, where to start...

Games : Bin all of Family Guy, Colour of Money, John Parrott, Rocket Money, revised Deal or No Deal and the three Battleships games

It may seem that I am picking on Bell-Fruit as I believe many of these are their games but each one for me has been a failure.

Family Guy should have been another Jiggy Bank but has been configured to never pay out, whereas Colour of Money is just a rotten concept (and a game that I have not yet seen a single punter play). Deal or No Deal took a classic and killed it and none of the Battleships games should ever have been launched (ho ho).

The other two might have been OK but had awful question banks thrown at them. Question banks should have a true gradation from 1 to 5 (or 1 to 7 if you take the snooker analogy) but the John Parrott questions are all either 1 (boringly easy) or 5 (impossibly difficult), whereas with Rocket Money while there does seem to have been some sort of grading assigned, in the end the game just switches to black ball questions for both reds and colours. The problem with both of these is that they give punters far too short a game - why would you spend £1 to answer 4 or 5 questions? The fact that their score boards are usually very sparsely populated tells you all you need to know.

Cabinets:

ItBoxes and Gamesnets

- have a long hard look at their games selections. These two were the market leaders for years but are now full of dross.

- sort out the technology so that games at least run properly. The recent appearance of the GWHL games has been an embarrassment due to the inability of the cabinets to run them properly.

Ind:e

Oh dear. I almost feel sorry for these guys. The latest release is so dreadful, in paucity of content and even in 'look and feel', that it would be like kicking a man when he's down to say anything. It really feels like they have given up.

Paragon

Personally I can't abide the 'You Have Won...' games but other than that at least they are trying to put out some interesting stuff and By Any Means has been the best of an otherwise awful set of games released by all the companies in the last couple of years.

General

You don't have to look very hard to see that not only are pubs falling by the wayside, but pubs that otherwise survive are removing their SWP machines - I've found another five like this in the last couple of days. With the state of most of the cabinets it's hardly a surprise if pubs aren't making any money from them, but for me the games companies have to decide - are we going to make games available that a small number of people might be able to win decent cash on, but that are more attractive to punters in general (i.e. the way this business has been run for more than 20 years), or are we not going to take that risk, choose only to put out drivel and gradually fade away?

Right. That's it for now. Off to watch Joseph Yobo's gang taken on Argentina in the Istenem Cup ... I mean the World Cup.