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niklas
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Revised Games

Post Information Posted: 2007-10-16 03:26:05 #

As you may have noticed I have revised some of my older games that had a not so good looking background, I also changed/added some dots. In order to this I had to re-make the games and remove the old ones. This means the highscore-lists have been deleted as well so if you want a place on the highscore-list you will have to play them again, but since they are better now (imo) it should be more entertaining than the last time you played them :o)
You can find the games here:
http://www.purposegames.com/games?t=9442

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Post Information Posted: 2007-10-16 08:39:52 #

Good job with the new games.

I did this with a lot of my games awhile back to redo the way I did attributions, correct some errors, and in a few cases to change backgrounds. (And there were a few I accidentally deleted, too.)

I didn't get any negative comments about doing that, and suspect you won't either.

But it does delete the highscores, so that's not good. I didn't realize it at the time, but that could've temporarily demoted people from say, Grand Master to Master status. But as we don't have that kind of rating right now, it may be less of a concern.

There are other games (not yours) that I wish would get the same treatment from their authors. What you've done is to take good games and make them better. There are some games that are fair or poor that could benefit from revision.

And there are still a few of mine I think about redoing sometimes...


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niklas
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Post Information Posted: 2007-10-16 09:15:09 #

Thank You!
I thought that since the old scores are only kept for six months now the effect on peoples ranking would be smaller than it would have been before PG 2.0. I think that a bigger 'problem' is that some of the games will be harder to find, take 'The Countries of Oceania', it was played almost 1900 times and showed up on page two or three if you sorted the games by 'times played' but now you will need to click next a lot of times, or search actively, to find it. Maybe the damage is greater to my vanity (I like when my games are played) than anything else ;-)


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Post Information Posted: 2007-10-16 10:49:04 #

A suggestion, niklas. What if you left the old game still intact, redid your background and added your features that are new and call it something new like "The Cities of Oceania Reformulated with South Pacific Breezes." Place a message with the old game to direct people to the new and improved one. People have a one in six chance of playing an excellent "Niklas Game" every time they play. You could increase the odds to one in three. Big companies have been reformulating their products for years. If perfume came in a beer bottle, I doubt if it would sell!


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niklas
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Post Information Posted: 2007-10-16 10:58:56 #

I removed the dots and added a message to the old game but it kepot getting 'played' anyway so I unpublished it. All people doesn't seem to read the game description or comments...



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