W1SSY said:
I have been playing 180 a good little bit in the last couple of days and really enjoy it. I am glad someone found a way to shake up the standard match three puzzle game. I hope it does well for you with your different approach to the free version.
Thanks! Yeah I am very proud of the game - I talked about the future plans for 180 in
this interview today, after all that's happened I have a lot of very clear ideas how to take the game to another level. Of course it's just dependent on how much reaction we can get to it, but in the short time it's been released on Android I think things are going well so far.
I get frustrated when people dismiss the notion "oh, it's just another puzzle game, aren't there already enough of those?" Man. Aren't there enough FPS games, aren't there enough fighting games, racing games? There's always plenty of room to take some established principles and go in new and interesting directions with them, and I think people get so used to seeing re-hashes and iterative sequels that they forget that we've barely scratched the surface with
any game genre. It just takes some R&D, and of course passion and vision. I think we are going to be seeing a lot of interesting products released by a lot of "risk-taking" independent developers in the next couple of years, and it's gonna be a huge breath of fresh air compared to the high-end "same-ol'" AAA stuff coming out of the big studios. Yeah those games will always have serious production values and heavy marketing campaigns to push them through, but a lot of those games are often forgotten about a few months following their release for a good reason.
I'm not trying to speak ill of those bigger games, of course a lot of them are quite good - but many of them do get caught up in a lot of politics and feature creep, sort of collapse under that weight, half-assedly shoehorning in extra features and modes and often ending up feeling like they "could have been, but aren't." With little independent developers, we can take risks those guys can't/won't and everyone can only benefit from it.