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Hm... I think we might be able to improve on alot of mods if people started posting little snippets here while the mods were young. Maybe if we encourage a few people to start doing it, more will take on the habit of having peer review done. I do suppose this particular area is a bit odd in...

Ah. Remember that thing I said about taking what people say you need and translating it to what you really need to do? This to me, means lack of polish in mods. That one is gonna take awhile, I'll get to typing that on word. I think I m gonna have alot of positive things to say actually...

I don't want to touch a mod without someones permission. I mean more like mistakes and stuff.

I certainly hope so, post updated with some picatures. I'll try to be more positive so I don't have to use so many negative pictures. I have a few ideas, but does anyone want me to touch on a sepcific topic?

Wow, high quality and proper use of music. Nice job. If you want advice on how to improve your quality, resize the tiles you use with something other than photoshop as photoshop tends to make pixel art look blurry. I recomend doubling or quadrupling the tiles in Microsoft paint or something...

Much appreciation. Those fixes will be applied, but we'll see crappy mods until the end of time. Less is always better nevertheless.

Heh. We all hit bumps, dealing with them is important. Gonna try to make updates to the post tonight with pictures. I really want this to be helpful, so I'll do my best to make it interesting and therefor more effective. Info about your mods being used is now in the initial post.

Demotivation is certainly a tough monster to fight. Usually when I get workin on something I like to have people to bounce ideas off of and I take any opportunity I can to make changes that better suit the game. It's all about your development rather than your concepts and ideas. Keeping...

Oh boy. Let me get my wallet.

Matt had an amazing game design revelation while gone. That would be why there is so much of this stuff from me. Any mod issues you really want to see addressed Cultr?

The tool doesn't matter if people don't know how to use it. The problem is that concepts like this are things that don't come to people naturally. If they never think about balancing a game, it's unlikely they'll do it. These thoughts should be in peoples heads. Plus these are totally just...

This isn't exactly relevant to everybody. If your proud of your work that's totally fine, but recently there's just been an influx of really bad mods and I think keeping a list of common pitfalls and traps people fall into is a good thing for those with less experiance. Few people give really...

I think we really could do with that system of standards. I mean, there is an incredibly low barrier to entry right now, and I'd like to see some of the better mods out there recieve more credit and the god awful ones see less. Perhaps even a thread foor mods which have proven to be of higher...

If your mod is bad, it isn't special. We got plenty of those. I really want to see people make better mods, and I don't plan to aim this at anyone or any mod in particular.

You're welcome. I really want to help people and complain. It's really a win-win for me. More to come. I'm gonna edit my last posts a bit with some images.

Not everyone is a good modder. Some people can't do it well, the real issue is that there are lots of people who can do well who don't because they don't know certain basic things. I probably will remove that. Was rushing at the end and trying to give reason to take it to heart. It is a bit...

Last Updated: November 2, 2012 Yup. I'm just going to continually update this initial post with problems that occur in most mods that we see, why they happen, and how an individual can fix them. =Way Too Hard= So anyone who's played a mod here will notice that some of the mods we see are...

Hell with 5x difficulty? Spikes... EVERYWHERE! I don't mind seeing things designed to be difficult, but you might wanna do alot of planning to make it actually fair. Here's a Gamasutra article on the matter...

You don't nessecarily needs hacks to make something fun. You need to have good design. Try copying things from games you've player before. And I don't mean gimicks. I mean level design and structure. Draw a map before you make it, decide where each enemy will go, what the player will have...

Ah. I can live with that.

Maybe. I just wanted to contradict the phrase to prove a point. I'm going to give Nicalis my three points of advice on the matter of rereleasing Cave Story. Number one: stop Number two: don't Number three: why? That's not even a suggestion, it's more of a question really.

What? You know what? Pixel has enough of my money.

You should work on that. It tends to be your fault and not the player's.