Video game survey

Hello everybody!

For a school project, me and a friend of mine will research the aspects of what makes a fun video game, and when the research is finished, we'll actually create a game based on our conclusions.

The first fase of our research is to ask people what aspects of video games they like most.

Please take in mind: The answers to each question vary per game, of course, one answer doesn't work out well for all games in the world. So please answer what aspects you prefer with games when choosing what game to play, and not what aspects all video games in the world should have.

Link to the survey:
https://surveyplanet.com/57a0fec182024cac2d7a94c4

Many thanks in advance, Lolslayer.

with the 'reveal everything, no surprises' vs 'everything is secret' question, tbh a middle ground would be ideal.

Stevedoggen wrote:with the 'reveal everything, no surprises' vs 'everything is secret' question, tbh a middle ground would be ideal.

Yeah, it was stupid that we didn't include an "other" option with every question. We'll think of that in future surveys. (And there will be more, for more info about this go to the halomaps post: http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=49618)

I wish that there was an answer in the beta question that said something along the lines of "as long as the developers listen to feedback then it's fine" because I really wanted to put that.

Lordpyromon wrote:I wish that there was an answer in the beta question that said something along the lines of "as long as the developers listen to feedback then it's fine" because I really wanted to put that.

That's a little bit too obious to be honest. That's the main reason for indie devs to create beta's, it's only that not all of them listens quite well to the feedback.

Thanks for doing the survey!

I guess then as your asking for people to complete the survey,
1. you are trying to establish what type of game and gameplay is wanted.
2. You are prepared to either disregard, or diminish their input as your going to draw your own conclusion as to what people want!
3. If your going to put time and effort into this, your prepared to start all over again because people, want this changed or that changed and want this colour and not that colour, this weapon , not that one, This map and this but not that one!

Welcome to the life and world of a Dev, I think you may now get a picture of what the wants and needs of the many have on a games development. At some point you are just have to say 'Scr*w It, its staying like this!'.
(Not that I was making any direct comparison to certain posts in the forums of  a certain Project).

Are you going to release the results to this once you've completed the survey? Idk how wide of a community you're distributing this too but here and halomaps seems like you're only collecting data from a niche sample. Perhaps a few questions about preferred platform (genre was covered but could have been wider), amount of gaming experience, and time spent gaming per week would help gain information about the sample so you'd know how weighted the sample is in a certain community.