Writer to game developers: stop making minigame games!

A game reviewer from Ars Technica decides to do a bit of activism and wrote and open letter to developers to have them stop making minigames. The weary writer shares,

Frankly, I think it’s time for developers to ease up on these types of games (minigame compilations). I’ve focused on Nintendo, but all the platforms are guilty of the criminal overuse of this genre. Unless the collection is going to give us a completely diverse set of revolutionary new minigames, please don’t bother.

Frank Caron relates that on his Wii alone, he’s already plowed through Rayman Raving Rabbids, Super Monkey Ball, Warioware  and Sonic, with Mario Party. He laments the presence of some mini-game compilation of just about every other game he owns on the DS. According to him, although there are some interesting approaches to the genre as well as some enjoyable lighthearted plays, minigames has become a fad meant to cash in on brand and character loyalty.

So we try to decipher why there are minigames in the first place. Could it be that there are some of us who actually like ’em? Maybe somebody should just stop forcing this guy to play tons of minigame compilations in the first place and start making him play some real games, those that he like. Otherwise, well it’s a free country. Developers are free to develop their sort of games the way gamers are free to buy theirs.

Via Ars Technica

A game reviewer from Ars Technica decides to do a bit of activism and wrote and open letter to developers to have them stop making minigames. The weary writer shares,

Frankly, I think it’s time for developers to ease up on these types of games (minigame compilations). I’ve focused on Nintendo, but all the platforms are guilty of the criminal overuse of this genre. Unless the collection is going to give us a completely diverse set of revolutionary new minigames, please don’t bother.

Frank Caron relates that on his Wii alone, he’s already plowed through Rayman Raving Rabbids, Super Monkey Ball, Warioware  and Sonic, with Mario Party. He laments the presence of some mini-game compilation of just about every other game he owns on the DS. According to him, although there are some interesting approaches to the genre as well as some enjoyable lighthearted plays, minigames has become a fad meant to cash in on brand and character loyalty.

So we try to decipher why there are minigames in the first place. Could it be that there are some of us who actually like ’em? Maybe somebody should just stop forcing this guy to play tons of minigame compilations in the first place and start making him play some real games, those that he like. Otherwise, well it’s a free country. Developers are free to develop their sort of games the way gamers are free to buy theirs.

Via Ars Technica