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Hello, as a final project in school, me and a couple of firends are developing a 2D game. Along with this we are going to write an essay. We need something to base this essay on. So we decided to make a survey with a couple of questions. It's mainly about mixing genres in games. I would appreciate if you could answer our survey.
http://goo.gl/forms/8ORMVKC6dz
Thanks!
As braindigitalis said, your survey is written in a way that pre-conforms the answers to your own view of the world. i.e. Do we agree with what you think, or disagree with what you think... but what if we have views that are entirely perpendicular to your views? ^_^
Practically none of your questions I can answer using the answers you provided, so I'll answer them here instead:
What do you think about mixing game genres?
I think games should be made without pre-forcing them into any genre, and that genres are used to describe what a game is similar to AFTER it's been made, rather than boxing it in during development. One shouldn't say, "I think I'll make an FPS-RPG hybrid", one should make a game, and then say, "This is like an FPS, this is like an RPG, this is like a RTS.".
While I understand braindigitalis and Servant's queries with such survey format, I can also understand why the OP would want the answers in the way presented in the survey. Most times analysts want to be able to reduce the survey responses to numbers and hence draw a graph (or graphs) which would give a proper overview that can aid in decision making (apart from the missing self employed option and also that more options need to be available in the questions)
This is even more practical when one is dealing with large data responses. If data response runs into thousands then details as provided by Servant wouldn't be so useful (or would be too much work to analyse)
But if OP is only after very few responses then Servant format of response is best.
Since this is a school work (and not real business survey) then i'm most likely wrong
Couldn’t finish the survey because “Looking at the concept art from our game, what are your thoughts regarding it?” only has 2 extreme options.
Add more reasonable options.
L. Spiro
Also started to take it, felt I couldn't, came back to reply, and noticed the replies saying the same thing.
Making good surveys is hard work. Try again.
I took the survey, in general I agree with what most people have said here. Hopefully you chose these questions based on things you wanted to know but the problem with that you then see what you want to see though sometimes you might find the replies contradict what you initially expected.
I'm not a big fan of putting my age on things, I would prefer for example brackets <20, 20-30, 31-40 etc. I picked almost all the choices for the genre one because I tend to enjoy variety, perhaps a better method would be asking people to rank them instead or pick their top 3 etc.
you need to add more concepts. When I give my HCI (easy uni creadits lol) project exam (which was actually an tactile/interactive videogame) we added tons of concepts.
Thank you everyone for your feedback and a special thank you to all of you who answered. Since the question regarding the concept art of our game was the most criticized, we have remade that question so that you now kan write what you think, not only specific answeres. So if anyone feels that they couldn't finish the survey before, maybe can have another look at it.
