Comments on: Cut Scenes In Flash Games

By: arcade

arcade — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:06:54 +0000

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By: Porter

Porter — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:44:58 +0000

I agree that they aren’t needed for casual gamers, I didn’t really specify that in the article. However, I wouldn’t say that every flash game player is a casual gamer. For instance, Tower of Greed was a mild success mostly due to those who are in fact not casual gamers. On that line of thought, I think it’s important to appeal both to casual gamers, as well as those who aren’t, in order to get peak ratings out of your games. Casual gamers can skip the story in a click, less casual gamers can be more impressed by getting a bit of story, both sides win. Flash games in general do appeal to casual gamers, but there’s always a group of people (such as myself) who appreciate a more console like feel. Pleasing both crowds could be the difference between a 3.8 and a 4.2 on Kongregate or Newgrounds. I do agree with you though, as far as the appeal to casual gamers go, this wouldn’t be a necessity.

By: ozdy

ozdy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:37:37 +0000

I disagree with you on that one, Porter. You’re just being nostalgic of old NES times. Plot and cutscenes aren’t of importance for casual games so much. Most big hits like bloons, dirt bike games, etc don’t need plot at all.

By: Porter

Porter — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:36:44 +0000

As developers become better and better at optimizing file size, I suggest that these cut scenes are either short and simple with text, or even with a voice over if not too long.

By: rosedragon

rosedragon — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:48:21 +0000

The cutscenes for flash games need to have minimum text and if it not interesting, it give no value to most players since they will just skip them.