Anonymous Gamer Survey

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I’m working on a graphic design project for my degree and I’m reaching out to the Waypoint population for input. I’m especially looking for responses from high school or early college-age gamers, but anyone can feel free to respond.

The anonymous Surveymonkey survey is on general gaming habits, favorite games, genres and platforms, and there’s some open questions on what your perfect game would be if you could have someone design it.

The link is here, feel free to take the survey at your leisure, and thanks!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/vidya

If you think any of the questions are stupid, or want to discuss any of the questions here, feel free to. This can be a discussion about that stuff as well.

P.S. Hope I’m posting this in the right forum, Mods; I checked the forum guidelines and wasn’t sure so please let me know whether or not this is cool.

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is this some kind of survey. you wont get ma children tears! all ma!(use with crazy earl accent)

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done.

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I did My survey, did you? looks at the community

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Some interesting responses for the “what’s your perfect game” question. It’s anonymous, I don’t know who writes some of this stuff LOL, but I can sorta tell who’s coming from the Waypoint forums:

  • A game where I can have my creations going out against others and play as one of my own creation

Cool. I could see a dark magic sort of setting, swap out with your creation’s AI on the fly, “possessing” them.

  • Halo/Skyrim/CallofDuty

I was hoping Destiny would evolve into something a little like this, it has some “medieval knight” inspired futuristic elements, people are saying a little close to Star Wars/ Mass Effect but I know Bungie will make it truly unique.

  • Big sandbox halo game/star wars galaxies style

I think everyone is going to have Destiny on the brain very soon. Polygon Bungie studio/tour video article here: http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/1/24/3908184/heart-of-bungie-destiny-jason-jones-marty-odonnell-halo

  • oregon trail

Organ trail?

  • egg

LOL damn hippies.

  • Wolfenstein except you are the Nazis

So, nearly infinite respawns, and you win the game after 1 kill?

  • ChexQuest with modern graphics

I never heard of Chex Quest before, it’s actually pretty fun for a Doom clone. Still, not sure if troll

  • Like Madden, but with guns

Sounds like a similar concept to Pigskin, but 3D/3rd person like Gears of War

  • I would kill OP and his stupid ideas errday

Neat! I get to be in a game! I want me to be acted by either Jeff Steitzer, or Joe Staten.

  • A game that plays like Dragon’s Dogma but has the diversity of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance with an emphasis on customizing your party and a very indepth dungeon generator

That sounds pretty cool. I think it was dot hack or something that randomly generated dungeon grinding, I never got into it though because there didn’t seem to be a very deep class/party system.

  • My Little Pony meets Minecraft meets Doctor Who

I need an adult.

  • DMC5 but done right

So, not the DMC reboot then?

  • Adventure like zelda, plenty of creative puzzles, hidden extras, immersive

I think every indie dev still dreams of pulling this off.

  • Imagine Devil May Cry and Psychonauts had a baby. I want that. Grimdark hack and slash inside the minds of others where everyone raves about how cool the boss fights are. You’re grown up Raz, with psychic powers as well as guns (think bioshock).

I want this too.

  • Saving strippers from evul commie terrorists with lots of shootan PS /v/ sux

This respondent has balls of steel.

Just a few new ones so far; feel free to pass the link around and I’ll continue to post stuff, like stats on what percentage of respondents prefer what genres, favorite game for graphics/art style versus gameplay, etc.

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> Some interesting responses for the “what’s your perfect game” question.
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> Just a few new ones so far; feel free to pass the link around and I’ll continue to post stuff, like stats on what percentage of respondents prefer what genres, favorite game for graphics/art style versus gameplay, etc.

Playing Organ Trail. I love it very much. Now this is something of a challenge for all gaming studios: building a planet-sized world besides Minecraft and Spore. Just an idea. Buuuuuuut that would take over 12+ years to do 0.0 and that would be super $$$, uber stressful to generate, and quite mental doing (O.O)

I love the results here and I most definitely love playing Organ Trails!!! Reboot, anyone?

and yes, I believe that it is .Hack

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I have a graphic design project as well, which I couldve done with Video Games.

Meh; Went for school yearbook and this environment project instead.

Anyways, done! Some questions I had to create a ‘tie’ because I couldn’t decide.

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Done

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Great post.

Done my survey, would just like to say I missed on thing and that was on the “Perfect game” part.

Forgot to add “A vast, creative mode. Featuring many ways to create things and how to create them. Build your own campaign from the ground up, or build your own multiplayer maps to show off to the community.”

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Thanks for the help everyone, getting more responses than I thought I could. I’ll be back on later to post more results/analysis

Going to go finish watching Indie Game: The Movie (liek dis if u cry evrytiem)

> I have a graphic design project as well, which I couldve done with Video Games.
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> Meh; Went for school yearbook and this environment project instead.
>
> Anyways, done! Some questions I had to create a ‘tie’ because I couldn’t decide.

When you got a minute I’d love to hear more about it, when I have more stuff together & storyboarded I think I’ll post a little about what my project is all about too. Right now, I’m just anxious to get it done and finally finish my degree…

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A couple more of your perfect games:

  • A nuclear bomb went off, and the player was the one who did it, but they don’t know it due to an injury they sustained. Open world, no perk system, everyone starts on the same level. Coop - yes. The world is full of ash in the sky and the player cannot see the sun. Npcs are tearing each other apart to surivie, and the player can put an end to in many different ways. Player choice.

This could have used a spoiler tag.

Seriously though, That bit at the end"player can put an end to it in many different ways" reminds me of this really interesting article on game design, I’ll try to dig it up. Here we go: http://calitreview.com/27917

It’s a little TL;DR, like this response, but it works with the idea that violence in a game is compelling if it has weight, and its own consequences especially if that violence is an option and not the only way to deal with a situation.

Map a Violent (lethal or non)/Nonviolent Z coordinate onto the engagement areas of this chart and you’ve basically charted most of the possible choices a person can make IRL, now giving the player that sense of freedom in programming storytelling and design is the hard part.

  • A game where the maps are humongous and you’ll able to make bases for multiplayer (Kinda how Halo reach’s forge world was)

One of the ForgeGAF bros posted this idea of a separate terrain/lighting editor, and the engine somehow could be built to dynamically alter the budget of pieces based around the complexity or simplicity of the area you make. So imagine building a huge city map (like some budget modders have done) legitly, because you’ve limited the terrain to a few flat planes and a skybox first, freeing up resources to render more pieces.

  • A Halo styled FPS, that involves Free Running gameplay like featured in Mirrors Edge. The music would be a very mood setting, slow piano music at times, and at others piano and electric guitar. Campaign would be explorable and expansive, with easter eggs in many places.

This makes me remember what potential Brink had; I hope a sequel or spiritual successor gets made with a matchmaking lobby system, and a more involved campaign/storyline

  • Balanced, creative, adventurous, deep, changing, variety, customizable, confusing, etc.

Imagining a vast 2d MMO with arena-style joust areas, perspective shifting elements like in Fez and contextual or localized time manipulation elements like Braid, but that’s probably the movie talking.

  • An FPS with online matchmaking, custom games, create your own maps, theater (for machinima)

Hi Waypoint!

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please help me take this survey
just two question

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YSTFLTJ

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> please help me take this survey
> just two question
>
> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YSTFLTJ

Done.

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I did it.

That last question is my favorite, lots of people have the best ideas, even from someone you don’t suspect.

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Done, my last one was where it was Basically an RPG with a near infinite expanse with near infinite customization options, a well written storyline, intriguing NPC’s, etc.
Kinda like Fallout or Elder Scrolls, I would have likened my description to them had I known that it was the best thing to do, but oh well.
I’d very much like to see the results of the survey when you’re done.

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Thanks everyone. Though there’s a bit of selection bias in the survey since I figured I could get a response easiest from an active forum with a large population like Waypoint, the 10-15 responses I got here help. I had 15 to start, now I’m at about 30 total. Shooting for 50…

I should probably post this on the GameFAQs boards, too; I was thinking of posting at NeoGAF but I think the audience there tends to be in college or older, given their email signup restrictions. If you want to repost the link on your twitters or facebook profiles for non-halo gamer friends to take that would be an immense help, and you can link them back here if they’re curious about seeing others’ responses.

I kinda wish SurveyMonkey’s responses worked like an online poll, where you had the option to make it so everyone could view them.