PacMan and all of its clones are still very popular games.
The same applies in PC games. Some games become extremely popular making their
creators instant millionaires, while other games, that look almost the same, become
miserable failures. And then there is also a large collection of games that you never see
because they were cancelled halfway the production and their creators went bankrupt.
What makes a game a winner and what leads to failure? This is a very difficult question
to answer. It involves many different aspects. In this tutorial we will delve into some of
these aspects in the hope it will help you to create better games.
What is a game?
Before talking about good games we should decide what a game is in the first place.
There is a surprising amount of discussion about this issue and there are many different
definitions. It is easier to say what is not a game.
A movie is not a game