It’s an interesting concept/principle that can be generalized.
Games, software, vehicles, etc etc… usually turn out best if they’re made for someone specific.
If you try and make a vehicle for someone who frames houses, a poor college student, a soccer mom, AND a high power coke snorting stock broker who uses material possessions to signal wealth… what kind of vehicle to you end up with? One that doesn’t meet any of thier needs. Trying to please too many people results in a bland product that delights no one.
If you can pick a few people, and delight them with your design, and accept that it’s not for EVERYONE… you might end up being surprised by how many people you didn’t even expect will love it too.
It’s a hard sell once you go corporate. Saying “fuck 'em, the game isn’t for X” is a tough sell if corporate says “yah well X has money to spend, and we want it”
I think it did well with insufferably impractical billionaire man-children who have no qualms with associating themselves with people who throw heil hitlers around. Gonna be real, my inner man-child loves it. Unfortunately too practical, a man of limited funds, and a strong distaste for Nazis put it out of my zone.
I think they just really forgot that when you pick “the person” they shouldn’t suck.
It’s an interesting concept/principle that can be generalized.
Games, software, vehicles, etc etc… usually turn out best if they’re made for someone specific.
If you try and make a vehicle for someone who frames houses, a poor college student, a soccer mom, AND a high power coke snorting stock broker who uses material possessions to signal wealth… what kind of vehicle to you end up with? One that doesn’t meet any of thier needs. Trying to please too many people results in a bland product that delights no one.
If you can pick a few people, and delight them with your design, and accept that it’s not for EVERYONE… you might end up being surprised by how many people you didn’t even expect will love it too.
It’s a hard sell once you go corporate. Saying “fuck 'em, the game isn’t for X” is a tough sell if corporate says “yah well X has money to spend, and we want it”
On the other hand, sometimes you make a vehicle for someone specific and get the Cybertruck and almost everyone hates it
That’s true.
I think it did well with insufferably impractical billionaire man-children who have no qualms with associating themselves with people who throw heil hitlers around. Gonna be real, my inner man-child loves it. Unfortunately too practical, a man of limited funds, and a strong distaste for Nazis put it out of my zone.
I think they just really forgot that when you pick “the person” they shouldn’t suck.
On the other hand, sometimes you make a vehicle for someone specific and get the Cybertruck and almost everyone hates it
What about a game like overcooked or Mario party?