The largest game that was made in GameMaker was Hotline Miami (and the sequel). It’s a legitimate professional platform, but it’s not as viable for professionals as Unity or UE.

How professional is GameMaker? Like, is it a serious platform for making a game your friends would want to spend real time playing? Or is it more built for indulging a creative outlet but without the intent for the end product to be anything you would want to return to as a player? That is, more of an “it’s about the journey, not the destination”…[Read more]

That’s actually a decent list when it’s laid out like that. But I’d like to see more “full size” 3rd party IP developed around the Switch. Some crazy Shadowrun RPG or something, IDK. Although there’s a decent variety up there it still reeks of the norm for Wii-WiiU content

That brings up a good point. People don’t look at just the score and made a decision on the game, but it influences it… especially when a consumer looks at several scores from several trusted sources.

You look at an upcoming game and have already got an opinion about it based on videos, trailers, previews, your own playing of older games in the…[Read more]

I tend to use the top half of the scale as well. Rarely do I give out a sub 50 on any game.

I think that is part of why I use the 5 score system here. While I respect the opinion that a game review does not need a score, I feel like having all 5 available provides a good idea of WHY a game was reviewed this way in the most simplistic form. I…[Read more]

The written word is still there. Nobody’s saying taking the written review away.

At worst, the score is a jumping off point for a deep discussion of the written word. “Didn’t like the score? Then what part of the review did you disagree with?” The score reflects the text anyway.

I prefer not to score things, honestly. Id rather discussion come from the words written than what a series of numbers dictate.

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One day I’m going to write an article or review where all I say is something is shit. Just those few words.

The Switch reveal made me think they were finally focused. I expected motion and touch controls, but I thought those features would be relegated to the back end and not really focused on. The reveal trailer was short and to the point;…[Read more]