--? ++? +++ ???????

[Maverick]

OK. Still haven't worked this out properly.

On some they're black, some they are grey, some are there, some are not. Seems about as consistent as hot lumpy custard.

I guess maybe it's hints for slider levels but they're all over the place?

Clues anyone?

[Kuggar]

From what I've gathered, when you create a Game Report after a game release, it may or may not give you hints for the future.

Such as: "RPG: Story/Quests are very important for this genre" or something along those lines.

Then my understanding is, if it's "very important", it would chuck a "+++?" under the slider bar. Only when you get multiple Game Reports with the same information, it will lose the "?" and just be "+++". Because it's had lots of reports saying the same thing.

Am I making any sense? Not sure if I'm explaning it correctly >_>

[Maverick]

Originally posted by Kuggar:

From what I've gathered, when you create a Game Report after a game release, it may or may not give you hints for the future.

Such as: "RPG: Story/Quests are very important for this genre" or something along those lines.

Then my understanding is, if it's "very important", it would chuck a "+++?" under the slider bar. Only when you get multiple Game Reports with the same information, it will lose the "?" and just be "+++". Because it's had lots of reports saying the same thing.

Am I making any sense? Not sure if I'm explaning it correctly >_>

Actually it makes perfect sense. It explains why they aren't consistent which was my biggest issue. ty m8

[Ralek]

It makes sense, but that's not how it works :)

First of all, the only way to get that information is to develop game reports, which is available the week after you release any game. A game report will give between 2 and 5 hints regarding the topic/genre combination of the game and can be about development, platform or audience combinations.

You don't need to write it down, the game will remember it for you and it will show up in game in the form of +++, ++, +, -, --. A +++ means a very important component, ++ important, + and - neutral and -- unimportant.

If it's greyed out with a ? next to it, it means you have a report from the same genre, but not that particular topic/genre combination. Generally speaking genres share the important game components during development (the slider parts), but some topics modify that, so just because you have a -? next to a slider, doesn't mean that component is unimportant for the particular topic/genre combination.

[Gungrave]

best tip is just to just make a lot of small games after you make a large one to experiment with what works that way when you go to dev a new game it will give more insight. Thats what I did and it helped me a lot and gave a fair amount of research points.