As a kid I thought points and scoring were pointless cuz so many NES games just dropped them in there seemingly cuz That’s What You Put In a Game
It wasn’t until I got into shooters as an adult that like…I finally learned the beauty of scoring
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New threads makes sense, especially if every game is going to get more than fifty posts. It’ll certainly help me keep track of scores for the leaderboards. Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m now seriously wondering if there are any sidescrolling action games with well developed score systems. I’d love to see something like that.
how about flicky? or do you mean something different?
I was thinking more along the lines of like Strider but with good scoring.
chippoke ralph no daibouken has excellent scoring mechanics
I think platformers without screenwrap can be scored by completion time.
@VastleCania brings up a good point. A lot of scoring seems arbitrary, or at least the most distilled sort of skill that’s possible within a game rarely goes hand in hand with the demands of the game that allows them. It’s why after discovering scoring in shmups I immediately became obsessed with roguelikes instead. I understand that all (single player)games are little more than calculators, but calculators are not to be disparaged, because they contain so much latent possibility, imo calculators of all kinds should receive the most reverence for this.
Anyway, whenever they can measure fun, I think all scoring should be based on how much of it you had on one credit, it should go back to the game itself
so do i make a new thread?
what do we put in the title of all the threads so they’re easy to search for
Good questions! Hmm… I have two ideas so far:
“PFM”
“F██kin’ _____” (As in “F██kin’ Fish Fly Fever”)
What do you think?
i like F██kin _____ its searchable but fucking annoying about it!
Hahaha, I hadn’t thought about how the blocks would disrupt searching. I used that particular construction based on this:
oh it doesnt disrupt it by annoying i mean i hvae to figure out how to type a █
its perfect
I think of scores as standards for perfectionism and I personally find it really gratifying to perfect certain gameflows. I think they’re even better when they reward style and grace woven into perfection. For instance, Thumper rewards you points for hitting all the notes, but you can get even more points by thumping certain notes perfectly and extending to hit every extra ring. This feeds risk-reward decisions since missing a perfect thump means you might lose your combo or die. Because of the way they can create new tiers of decision making, I don’t think scores are always arbitrary and for me, they can often lead to a really condensed interaction with design.
Oh my god, that’s a lovely new avi, @Thenar
Cheers! Gray bar keeps the stretched out Nightopian grounded. I also don’t know what monitor you should get but I hear projectors are more trouble than they’re worth. Maybe that’s not true with recent tech?
Need maintenance like cleaning filters, need a really dark room or everything looks washed out, bad latency, those sorts of things.
I can contend with the first 3 things. I would like to get around the latency m, that’s the number one thing id like to get around
Aiee sorry for getting so drunk
Don’t worry. You’re perfect.
