Recently I had gotten into a game called "The Perfect Tower". It is much like an idle game, yet it's also like a tower defense game. The reason I'm so into it, is probably because I love both idle and tower defense games. Typically while I play games like these, I normally gather ideas floating above me. That is how much I get into these games. Believe it or not I'm fairly picky about the games I play. I'm not much of a gamer, not like what I use to be. I use to be big into World of Warcraft, but not so much anymore, probably for the best.
I've sent many developers ideas I get, sometimes I get as many to write them down on a piece of paper, that way I don't forget any. Sometimes I even spend a day or two just coming up with ideas for the games I play. I don't expect much, fantasizing is what I love doing. In fact, most of the time developers don't respond to me. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever gotten a response from ideas that I've sent in the past.
Today wasn't like any other day though. I was up late last night, trying to reach the leader board for The Perfect Tower. There was a recent update changing many things, it was harder to get where I was able to before the bug fixes... the game was more challenging now. While it took me maybe two or three hours to hit wave 2000, I was thinking of new enemies we could encounter, I also thought of a few lesser things, but come around one in the morning; it was a late night for me, I finally lost at roughly round 2400.
With the few ideas floating around my head, I decide to go ahead and send the developer a private message. I wasn't expecting much, I mean it's a pretty popular game and the chance of others messaging this person where high. A lot of times the developers get an overwhelming amount of messages, rather they are about the game or not. People these days don't take into consideration that programmers, or anyone that has a high rank on the popularity chart, don't have time to talk to people they don't know. The main time programmers will read of follow up on a message if it's about a bug seen in the game.
I woke up this morning to start grinding materials used in the game to allow me to reach further waves. Luckily I don't have to stay at my computer to do this, the game is mostly an idle game, so I can just click start and go do something else while I wait to die, then I would come back and hit start again. However, before I started the game, I noticed a message. I figured it was just a message notifying me there was a recent update to a game I've favored.
In shock I realized that wasn't the case. The developer had respond to me, I wasn't expecting what he side either. He rather enjoyed my ideas and said he would experiment with them though he wasn't sure when he would get to testing the ideas, because he had several other suggestions and bug fixes to work on. I don't really care if he tests them or not, but that wasn't all he said. As I kept reading he really like one of my ideas enough to tell me I will probably see it in the future. So that made my day today, I'm hoping to come up with more ideas for him as I know he will respond, though I should probably wait until he gets a few updates going and write ideas down to make one long message.
For those who might enjoy the game here it is! The Perfect Tower the website is safe otherwise I wouldn't be using it.
I've sent many developers ideas I get, sometimes I get as many to write them down on a piece of paper, that way I don't forget any. Sometimes I even spend a day or two just coming up with ideas for the games I play. I don't expect much, fantasizing is what I love doing. In fact, most of the time developers don't respond to me. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever gotten a response from ideas that I've sent in the past.
Today wasn't like any other day though. I was up late last night, trying to reach the leader board for The Perfect Tower. There was a recent update changing many things, it was harder to get where I was able to before the bug fixes... the game was more challenging now. While it took me maybe two or three hours to hit wave 2000, I was thinking of new enemies we could encounter, I also thought of a few lesser things, but come around one in the morning; it was a late night for me, I finally lost at roughly round 2400.
With the few ideas floating around my head, I decide to go ahead and send the developer a private message. I wasn't expecting much, I mean it's a pretty popular game and the chance of others messaging this person where high. A lot of times the developers get an overwhelming amount of messages, rather they are about the game or not. People these days don't take into consideration that programmers, or anyone that has a high rank on the popularity chart, don't have time to talk to people they don't know. The main time programmers will read of follow up on a message if it's about a bug seen in the game.
I woke up this morning to start grinding materials used in the game to allow me to reach further waves. Luckily I don't have to stay at my computer to do this, the game is mostly an idle game, so I can just click start and go do something else while I wait to die, then I would come back and hit start again. However, before I started the game, I noticed a message. I figured it was just a message notifying me there was a recent update to a game I've favored.
In shock I realized that wasn't the case. The developer had respond to me, I wasn't expecting what he side either. He rather enjoyed my ideas and said he would experiment with them though he wasn't sure when he would get to testing the ideas, because he had several other suggestions and bug fixes to work on. I don't really care if he tests them or not, but that wasn't all he said. As I kept reading he really like one of my ideas enough to tell me I will probably see it in the future. So that made my day today, I'm hoping to come up with more ideas for him as I know he will respond, though I should probably wait until he gets a few updates going and write ideas down to make one long message.
For those who might enjoy the game here it is! The Perfect Tower the website is safe otherwise I wouldn't be using it.
It is a good way to start your day!
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