Emanuele Feronato

Talking about Flash and Game development.

I know a spanish proverb saying “La mejor verdad se dice jugando” that sounds like “Tell the shocking truth when you’re kidding”.

That’s what Mr. Sun at the Helion Code said about 50 Ways to Make us HATE your Flash Game.

He is telling the shocking truth in a friendly way… but these are 50 mistakes you really must avoid.

Let’s see the first ten:

1. Add loud and annoying sound effects to your game
2. Don’t add a mute buttons so we have to listen to your loud and annoying sound effects
3. Make your game ridiculously hard
4. Don’t put in a preloader
5. Have a confusing menu system
6. Forget to embed all of your dynamic textfields
7. Make a game from a tutorial and submit it without making any kinds of changes
8. Have sloppy art
9. Add Mochiads everywhere (unless you need to load external stuff everywhere)
10. Don’t optimize your code

The most interesting thing is I said “done!” at every step…

Well, now you have 40 more reasons to read the original post.

Made me smile… and think…