Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t

Re:Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t by da5e on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @09:48PM (#2736802)

When I was a kid I had the top score in Galaga at my local arcade. I held the spot for months. Then one day I came in to find my score doubled by someone. The arcade owner told me that it was a guy who went around to each arcade and ran up the scores. Like a game playing gunslinger.

Now on the web any time I find a fun game and play it for awhile and improve, I come online to find that the high score has been run up by some aspieoverlord to unwinnable levels.

So how do game designers overcome that demotivating unwinnable high score phenomena?

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Re:Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t by monkeypizza on Thursday July 07, 2011 @06:02AM (#2737913)

There should be 3 levels of high score lists should be 1. personal 2. friends 3. global

this actually applies everywhere you are showing group merged data related to a particular person.

i.e. your height, your friends heights, and global heights

imagine a news article that has interactive graphs that query g+ or fb and use the info to put a friends layer next to the global info.

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Re:Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t by chopsueyar on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:31AM (#2738341)

Instead of social circles, how about geographical locations?

1. local (city or neighborhood)

2. statewide

3. country

4. earth

It is more analogous to the parent comment.

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Re:Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t by zoudini on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @10:04PM (#2736849)

Personally I'd love to see replays of "impossible" scores. Similar to the speed run videos for games like super Mario on YouTube

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