Thugbattle.com

[Curt]

Hello everyone,

Over a Year ago now I First wanted to make my own online rpg game like the ones i enjoyed playing at that time.

Now i have a game that is doing ok and seems to be on the rise...

Im looking for some constructive criticism about my game please...from a developers point of view...

I Have spent countless hours developing the game and im sure i will spend countless more developing the game even further....Also i tried not to "CLONE" other games but rather do my own thing...not sure how well i did with that but i did add a few of my own custom features into the game.

Thanks for Reading and I hope you guys check it out and leave me some feedback :)

Thanks,

Curt

Thugbattle.com

[Zero-Affect]

If you try not to clone other games why use a engine which is based on cloning TornCity (if you have limited skills i can understand).

Thugbattle.com

User: demo

Pass: demo

Also your website is exploitable maybe you could do with a hand[mp]118[/mp]

[ddgamedesign]

Actually pretty decent, I like the feature set. Great start! My observations:

-- Lots of options for searches, lucky dip, etc.

-- The template: Eh. Not a big fan of the dark template really, rough on the eyes over long stretches of time. Some of the little graphics are nice though. The 'Thug Battle' placard up top during gameplay is a little large and cheesy looking, and it forces too much scrolling during gameplay. The Main City screen is spread out a bit too much for my personal taste, forcing a LONG scroll down to get to the options.

-- I like the Back Alley thing, Cars, etc. Lots of decisions and options, and good amount of crimes and school classes.

Good work!

[Curt]

first off, thanks for the comment.

Also, ive seen many successful games using this engine that is no where near a clone of Torn City.

I understand what your saying about the engines being the same but besides that i took no motivation from Torn City at all....I dont and have never even played that game. I have signed up of course just to see what all the hype is about and in my opinion that game is not that great at all...i believe it simply had the advantage of using the mccode system when it was very new. Im not saying its a bad game, i just dont think its the best game out there...

also i believe everyone has "Limited Skills"...because one person cant know everything about PHP. Some peoples skills are more advanced than others yes, but everyone is limited some way.

Im not the best coder and I dont claim to be, I do have a Motivation to learn and I continue to do so everyday, I enjoy developing my game and communicating with players. I do the best i can :)

lol...

Thank you for the response crimgame.com :)

thanks streetsyndicate,

I done most of the Graphical Work for the game myself...and as you can probably tell i suck major at it.

Graphic design is not my strong point....lol

but as always i do the best i can, i tried to keep the layout simple and load time low for it because i know how a dial up player feels when it takes 20 minutes to load the layout of a game...lol

Thanks for the comment and observations, i will keep them in mind when i make some changes to my game :)

[Curt]

/viewuser.php?u=%25%25%27DROP+TABLE+users%3B 12:21:23 pm May 20, 2010

/search.php?name=%25%25%27DROP+TABLE+users%3B 12:21:18 pm May 20, 2010

wow, less than 1 minute on my game and someone tries to drop my users table....

gos to show you guys DO NOT POST YOUR GAME HERE IF ITS NOT SECURED.

[furydevo]

Actually, I'd call that a good thing.

It's important that people try to break games before they are promoted, because it will cause a lot more damage later when you lose a large player base because of some PO'ed player trashing your game.

I tell everyone that plays my beta to always break the game, if possible. That's half the fun for the tester crew!

[Curt]

you actually make a good point :)

[Spudinski]

Well, nothing is 100% secure in this world...

Anyways, to the point; your use of colour is awkward to say the least.

I'd suggest using another colour scheme for your game.

[ddgamedesign]

Spudinski: Agreed, and it does do a lot of my sense of a game like this to have colors I can look at for periods of time. I threw this top graphic together for you; its a spare graphic I had this made by a pro artist for my own game that I didn't use, and I added your game's name to it. Feel free to use it if you wish. It has some gritty details to it, and it "brings you in" to a rough, nasty city in a subtle way, with a "spraypainted grafitti" font used. Colors are muted, balanced and its fairly easy on the eyes, IMHO.

[Curt]

WOW, very nice :)

You will see this on my game soon, and I am very grateful for this.

Thank you very much streetsyndicate :)

[dementor]

I liked the game to easy to level thogu as i think was suggested in your forums and a bit to much graphics for my computer to handle but good job :thumbup:

[Curt]

thanks for your opinion dementor :)

To be honest i tried to keep the layout as simple as possible and tried to keep load time of the layout low. This is because i know how dial up players feel when a game layout takes forever to load.

So i tried my best to keep my game dial up friendly :)

[GillBate]

Though you need some unique feature for your game and also interface.

You may modify some free web template to yours though you will get some experience from CSS template and make your game look better.

[Curt]

Thanks for the review Octarine :)

[sparky44863]

being a mod for curt on thugbattle, your not the only one to notice the large amount of cash circulating. I personally think we need a full reset with a few tweaks to the economy(like bank caps and removal of higher up houses).

[bineye]

a full reset is a simple way to piss off your top, most active players