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Don’t feel like it’s a bad thing that a game is possibly years away at this point! I would encourage you to keep a document outlining your game mechanics and continue to visit it, add onto it, and adapt it. Most people choose to observe and adapt game mechanics with actual players, but a game...

Firstly, do not underestimate the skill of writing when building a game! I feel it is a little too undervalued in these kinds of games in general, and to find creative ways to work it in can really make your game shine. Second, having no programming experience is actually a good thing for you...

Though the question was broken down a little bit further in the survey, I was kind of surprised to find that people so overwhelmingly prefer realistic species to fantasy ones. Personally, I like unique fictional creatures, I think there's a lot more room for creativity there (and it was a close...

I apologize that you felt I was being disrespectful; while I was referencing what you said I was in no way talking directly to you. I also did not assume, and in no way meant to imply, that you were doing that. I only expanded on it because you originally had posted (which was in the email I...

I was - it’s an older thread, you’re the only one who responded recently, and the only response that’s mentions manually setting anything. I did understand that you were talking about in instances where a user has lost access to their original email they signed up with. You apparently edited...

I would not recommend PHP, honestly. It’s becoming more and more archaic as time passes. As a language it is messy, confusing, and barely conforms to its own patterns. While, previously, PHP was the most widely accepted language for new (and especially self-taught) web developers, we’re past...

Changing emails manually is only viable for very small websites and in no way recommended. You can potentially lose users doing it this way, also, as it is very clearly unprofessional and insecure; just because you’re doing it manually does not make it infallible. After all, you won’t always...

I really don’t like to engage as a rule, but let’s be real - how on earth do you think you weren’t being rude when you made two posts asking if they really couldn’t afford $10? Would you not feel this was rude if someone did it to you? If the second post was an accident, why didn’t you edit it...

I was trying to post them more on the general discussion/off-topic boards except where very clearly prohibited. The post on Furry Paws was in the other games board, I did spend some amount of time there bumping it for attention. I was trying to pay attention to all of the posts that I personally...

I'm really glad that this has benefited you! :)  My personal goal in conducting the survey was to identify the topics that the most potential developers had the least information on to bolster community education, but I definitely hoped that the data would prove useful to others (and not just...

I appreciate that you offered to donate a license, but this is incredibly rude. There is absolutely no reason you should be mocking other developers for their choice to use only free and/or open source packages. These are not professional developers, most of these games are passion projects (as...

This is not secure - the second method is far more secure than this just because you give the user the option to reclaim their account. To be secure, the email should be sent to their original address, where they are asked to confirm that they want to change their email address to the new...

I think it's generally referred to as a guided tutorial, self-guided tutorial, or user-guided tutorial. You might have more relevant search results with a specific string like "guided tutorial" design; this should remove things that are tutorials themselves to a large degree. You'll get mostly...

I have been running and developing on GoneMushing myself for the last three years in the absence of its owner, and have been heavily involved in its development for the entire five years it's been around. The game itself is a remake of one that I created on my own in the early 2000's (probably...

Here is the relevant information as reported in the already-released section of the SimCensus: How bad do you feel when a virtual pet dies? Do you prefer a system where pets don't die? Do you prefer a system where your pets don't retire? Personally, I think it depends entirely on the...

I don't think it's ever too early to open a game to people, as long as there's something there. You should definitely be careful about the numbers that you are allowing, and the prices that you are charging for accounts; you might even consider having a small group number planned (like the 10-20...

I was trying to compile these results before the end of August, but it proved to be a much larger job than I anticipated and my other projects demanded a little more attention! Not to worry, though - this is still in process, and you can see the results as they are processed at the same url...

I was wondering if other game owners or managers monitor their game's demographics (if even only age or country; gender is a statistic that largely lacks value since the community is so heavily female, and a lack of selecting a gender is far more prominent than males. It has been this way for a...

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