Quote: "No offense but Hangman isn't that fun anyways It would have to have some incredibly dark humour and different gameplay before it would be popular."
Has to be more fun than my last effort
. I was feeling pretty accomplished with 2,600+ downloads of Cheney Hunter (3543 now that the website is up, woot!)... until I saw WordTrix had 40k downloads. Made me feel very tiny and insecure, lol. We have a minor twist to the plot... unlike regular hangman where you draw in portions of the victim when you get letters wrong, in this version he's already drawn, and if you miss letters he escapes. Miss four letters, and Saddam goes free, and the President has some very unkind words for you... makes it pretty hard. Plus we have seven levels of difficulty (get a word right and you go up a level) with four different words per level, so hopefully it'll have a few ounces of replay value because you're less likely to encounter the same word twice
. So hopefully that'll make it more fun than typical hangman... hopefully.
Quote: "My wife had to see the headmaster this week, after we found out our 9 year old son was playing an online game at school that involved trading in drugs. The site was one of those with hundreds of Flash games, but unfortunately they are not filtered according to age suitability."
In my opinion, that's just wrong. If you make a game that isn't suitable for kids, you should warn people of that. It isn't hard to put up a notice on a website that says "hey, this game isn't right for kids." It's pretty lazy imo. I think I even know the game you're talking about, and if it is that game, then it's definitely not good for kids to play. How did he find that game? Was he browsing flash games and stumbled across it, or did one of his friends tell him about it?
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