Ronnies participants, I'm curious
Paul Czege:
Ronnies participants,
What did you learn from your participation (completion and submission of a game) in either round one or two of the Ronnies this year? I'm curious.
Paul
Bret Gillan:
I got some confidence in my design chops, which is nice. After slogging away at the game on currently on the verge of releasing for awhile, even though *I* think it's good and so do the playtesters, it feels like I'm designing in a vacuum sometimes.
So putting a game out there, getting such positive feedback taught me that I'm doing something worth doing.
Paolo D.:
I think that I learned to focus much and better on the Situation and on the Reward cycles of a game (the things that Ron pointed out the most in his feedback on my Wings of Blood). I'm pretty good when it's time to tweak with the mechanics and the Currency, but sometimes I just forget of all the rest (especially when numbers are not directly involved - I learned a lot on "emergent" components too). ;-)
whduryea:
Quote from: Bret Gillan on February 28, 2011, 02:36:39 PM
I got some confidence in my design chops, which is nice.
Yes, this.
Prior to participating in the Ronnies, I didn't really have much confidence in my designs. I was making games for my own small group with no real thought of expanding beyond that. I didn't put most of my ideas in writing. I didn't think that anyone else would be interested in them.
Since the Ronnies, I have begun to think more seriously about refining my games and turning them into a finished product that others can enjoy.
David Berg:
Trying a bunch of new designs is fun, and you never know which ones might actually work! Writing one up to be complete and comprehensible to someone else is a useful and manageable first test.
I'd be happy to do a 24-hr game a month in perpetuity, ultimately abandoning some designs, revising and alpha-testing others, and working to publish the best few. In theory, anyway. In practice, having that carrot of Ron's thoughtful critique sure helps get me off my ass to commit those 24 hours.
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