{"author_link":"\/users\/scott-steffes","author_name":"Scott Steffes","author_uid":"scott-steffes","comments":[],"epoch":1534218981,"event":"LD42","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":115430,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"119825","p_author":"Scott Steffes","p_authorkey":"1081421","p_urlkey":"335858","p_title":"Know your audience.","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD42","p_time":"1534218981","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1081421","us_name":"Scott Steffes","us_username":"scott-steffes","event_start":"1533859200","event_key":"73","event_name":"LD 42"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD42","removed_author":false},"_superparent":97793,"_trust":8,"author":81421,"body":"If you're mostly making your game jam game for yourself then this doesn't apply, but if you're hoping a lot of fellow jammers will play and enjoy your game, here are some of my thoughts. \n\n- People will be playing a lot of games, so any friction in getting to your game is going to be a problem.\n- Make it run in the browser if at all possible (downloading and unzipping a file is just enough of a pain that people won't do it). Especially if there are tons of other games that do run in the browser.\n- Make your game easy to understand. If your idea requires a tutorial to ease players into it, making that tutorial will take time away from making your actual game. People might not even be willing to go through a tutorial.\n- **Bold** important words in your directions (like **score** and **Gameover**). This gives the viewer's eye something to latch on to so they might actually read your directions.\n- Think about what assets are easy\/hard to make. Text and voices can be produced rather quickly and can add a lot of content to your game. (We recorded 20 sounds that made it into the game in 1 hour)\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/camp-snuggle\n\n![CampSnuggleWide.png](\/\/\/raw\/d0e\/31\/z\/18db1.png)","comments":3,"comments-timestamp":"2018-08-14T04:28:10Z","created":"2018-08-14T03:40:26Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"id":115430,"love":4,"love-timestamp":"2018-08-14T05:14:37Z","meta":[],"modified":"2018-08-14T05:14:37Z","name":"Know your audience.","node-timestamp":"2018-08-14T04:01:29Z","parent":98614,"parents":[1,5,9,97793,98614],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/camp-snuggle\/know-your-audience","published":"2018-08-14T03:56:21Z","scope":"public","slug":"know-your-audience","subsubtype":"","subtype":"","type":"post","version":338413},"node_metadata":{"n_key":"115430","n_urlkey":"335858","n_parent":"98614","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/camp-snuggle\/know-your-audience","n_slug":"know-your-audience","n_type":"post","n_subtype":"","n_subsubtype":"","n_author":"81421","n_created":"1534218026","n_modified":"1534223677","n_version":"338413","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"source_url":"https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/camp-snuggle\/know-your-audience","text":"If you're mostly making your game jam game for yourself then this doesn't apply, but if you're hoping a lot of fellow jammers will play and enjoy your game, here are some of my thoughts. \n\n- People will be playing a lot of games, so any friction in getting to your game is going to be a problem.\n- Make it run in the browser if at all possible (downloading and unzipping a file is just enough of a pain that people won't do it). Especially if there are tons of other games that do run in the browser.\n- Make your game easy to understand. If your idea requires a tutorial to ease players into it, making that tutorial will take time away from making your actual game. People might not even be willing to go through a tutorial.\n- **Bold** important words in your directions (like **score** and **Gameover**). This gives the viewer's eye something to latch on to so they might actually read your directions.\n- Think about what assets are easy\/hard to make. Text and voices can be produced rather quickly and can add a lot of content to your game. (We recorded 20 sounds that made it into the game in 1 hour)\n\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/camp-snuggle\n\n![CampSnuggleWide.png](\/\/\/raw\/d0e\/31\/z\/18db1.png)","title":"Know your audience.","wayback_source":[]}