The 10 comandments of Gaming

[Switchlurk]

I was recently reflecting upon the Extra Punctuation of the Conduit, and i was thinking what definitive a list of the 10 worst things a game could do would be made up of. But on thinking further, i also began to wonder what the 10 most Taboo things a gamer could do When playing a game? I would like to see what a list of things that should NEVER, EVER be broken would look like.

What would be your suggestions for A. "The 10 commandments of game design" and B. "The 10 player commandments"


I was thinking along the lines of "Thou shalt keep a reasonable ratio of cutscence to gameplay" and "Thou shalt put player experience above all else" for Game design, and "Thou shalt not Achievement whore" and "thou shalt not use Strategy guide" for the player.

Let's see if we can craft two definitive lists.

 

[AntimatterKING]

Game Design: Thou shalt not replace boss fights with cutscenes.
Player: Thou shalt not play Zelda.

 

[I am Jack's smirking revenge]

And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it...

(This isn't really relevant to anything but I felt like posting it.)

 

[sorry user name taken.]

thou shalt not push into corner and button smash (beat em up's)

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Thou shalt not make enemies omniscient.
Thou shalt not give obvious tips during laoding screens and death screens
Thou shalt not make instant kill moves
Thou shalt not make quick time events that are long or insanely challenging- 4 buttons maximum
Thou shalt not make the player gather more than 30 of any item.
Thou shalt not make a reasonable ratio of cutscene to game design
Thou shalt not resurrect characters from prequils for the sake of a poor plot twist
Thou shalt not make grenade spamming a recognised AI move (im looking at you every sngle cod game)
Thou shalt not make the best events cutscenes
Thou shalt not make a boss with multiple forms.

 

[WillSimplyBe]

Game Design: Thou shalt not ever make a game with thumb-stick combat controls.

Player: Thou shalt not hate on.

Game Designer: Thou shalt not make horrible movie games.

 

[LRT]

Player: Thou shalt not Camp
Thou shalt not kill teammates

Designer: Thou shalt be inventive
Thou shalt not speak of cake only to reveal it to be an untruth.

 

[USSR]

Thou shall not use 1337

 

[scnj]

Thou shalt not create degradable weapons
Thou shalt not give the player less than 20 inventory slots
Thou shalt not introduce a universal ammo system to your sequel
Thou shalt not dumb down your sequel

 

[SantoUno]

Game Design:
1) Thou shalt not rip off other games to the point of 100% unoriginality
2) Thou shalt not implement unreasonable dick moves to purposely make the game harder and frustrate the player
3) Thou shalt not make a sequel that has no real purpose other than to keep giving players more copies of game for another full price (GH pricks)
4) Thou shalt not make DLC unreasonably expensive (again GH and Rock Band pricks)
5) Thou shalt not implement achievements/trophies that spoil a game's plot/ending by popping up before the credits (fucking Resistance 2 reminded me of this)

Player Gaming:
1) Thou shalt not be biased towards the game and purposely try to hate it because of popular view (i.e. what most people do with halo 3)
2) Thou shalt not judge a game bad because of a few nitpicks
3) Thou shalt not cheat with game glitches and hack a game online\
4) Thou shalt not find solutions online to keep progressing through a game until all possible solutions and resources have been tried and failed

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

thou shall not be made into a uwe bowl movie

 

[The Kangaroo]

Thou must punctuate

 

[lolmynamewastaken]

thou shalt use search bar.
thou shalt not rage quit.
thou shalt not falsly accuse people of hacking.

 

[ghalkhsdkssakgh]

Thou shalt make trailers have actual gameplay footage.

Thou shalt not be a sequel with a number greater than ((previous games metascore)/20)-1

Thou shalt not rely solely on multiplayer if thou hast a singleplayer portion.

 

[The Great JT]

PLAYER:
1. Thou shalt not corpse-camp.
2. Thou shalt not teabag.
3. Thou shalt not hog the superweapons.
4. Thou shalt not steal others' kills.
5. Thou shalt not spawn-camp.
6. Thou shalt not team-kill.
7. Thou shalt not take all the health and ammo pickups without considering the needs of thy team.
8. Thou shalt not use sex sprays.
9. Thou shalt not turn everyone's experience into a speed run.
10. Thou shalt not hack and go under the floor/world to cheat/gain an unfair advantage.

DESIGNER:
1. Thou shalt make the AI smart, but not super-computer level dodge-every-attack powerful.
2. Thou shalt not staple on a deathmatch mode, but thou shalt plan and balance the multiplayer fairly.
3. Thou shalt not have the cutscenes outweigh the gameplay.
4. Thou shalt make character death relevant.
5. Thou shalt not release a game full of bugs.
6. Thou shalt use invisible walls responsibly.
7. Thou shalt not make the camera a hinderance.
8. Thou shalt not make characters sterotypes.
9. Thou shalt not use quick-time-events.
10. Thou shalt make cutscenes not reiterate plot points we found out ages ago, but use them to keep the story moving.

And one for the developers.

DEVELOPER:
1. Thou shalt not let Uwe Boll make a movie based off thy game.

 

[The Kangaroo]

Consoles: Thou shalt not mod
PC: thou must make good mods
Developers: thou must release the source code for modding

 

[klakkat]

Thou shalt not create degradable weapons

Agreed, christ. Possible pardons to games where guns degrade at a MUCH slower rate than you find replacements (STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, for example)

Thou shalt not have enemy-spawning pods

Thou shalt not program friendly AI such that NPCs constantly jump in the way of your bullets.

Thou shalt not include characters intended to be goofy losers or otherwise outright annoying.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Character Development:

Thou shalt keep angst levels at a maximum of 3, remembering never to scale it up by 7.

 

[Legion]

Developers shalt not:

-Show things in advertisements that do not happen in the game (Halo and Gears of War specifically).
-Create DLC before the game is released then release it months later while charging people for it.
-Miss out multiplayer maps from previous instalments in their sequels.
-Spend more time on multiplayer than single player.
-Dumb down sequels.


Players shalt not:

-Quit because they are losing.
-Cheat or use a glitch in a multiplayer game.
-Teabag an enemy they outnumber (or at all ideally).
-Use a microphone unless they can be respectful (this includes not playing music or screaming).
-Play a ranked game unless they have practised by themselves so they know how to actually play.