Fan Game Design Sins, What really annoys you?

I personally like WASD better than the arrow keys. There are more buttons around them, so the game can overall have more features.

For instance, if you were making a Megaman game, you would have Q and E to switch weapons with.

The problem is that a lot of keyboards don't support simultaneous pressings of some buttons, primarily letters.


But when used with a mouse, there's no problem at all.

Making promises you can't keep.

I am so guilty of this right now. I promised bonuses in SMCR and I can't fufill them because of my deadline and procrastination.

Actually, Game Maker is now starting to piss me off. GM6 won't work with Vista, and GM7's system requirements are starting to get ridiculous when compared to the games that are actually being produced. I could play Halo on High quality on my old PC, but some fangames would play with hideous amounts of lag.

For this reason, I wish developers would mention breifly what version they had used. Also, file sharing sites can be really annoying.

This post has been edited by hazmeister on Oct 23 2007, 03:42 AM

It's Vista, the system requirements are supposed to be higher to keep up with Vista.

I had the lag issue on my old PC too, and 512MB was more than enough to happily Halo.

You can play GM6 games on Vista using this: http://www.gamemaker.nl/GM_Convert_Game.zip
It replaces the runtime in any GM6 game with a larger (in file size) but Vista-compatible version.

I hate games where the graphics clash.

Probably said already, but forced full-screen with resolution changes (which I've aptly dubbed Random Resolution Rape) is a horrible thing to do.

Games that require joypads.

Wait, you've played one that does that?

It was a Zelda fangame.

Ever since my new Mario engine that I will present some day but is yet secret (and somehow in development for some time now) all games I make support the gamepad.
Yet, I've not found anybody who actually HAS a gamepad among my friends...
So I somehow understand that people would make games without gamepad support, since it's not as easy as you may think that it is (at least if you have no idea how to do it)

For the record, I frequently use a gamepad for fangames.

Another thing I HATE is when they use GM and then leave the help blank, yet they don't disable it. Very Lazy.

No pause button. Kind of annoying when you have 10 Goombas running in from the left of the screen and 10 Bullet bills from the right, 39 Podoboos from the bottom and 5 Thwomps from the top coming at you and you have to make an important phonecall, but the game uses the "OMFG GAME RESTART ON HIT" system, and you're on the last level.

I think this is probably because a lot of GM users neglect to use the instance activation/deactivation codes, so every object in the entire room keeps having its events executed and being drawn.

Then it works as a cheap pause button.

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excuse me why did you guys sticky this without removing my embarrassing argument i had a long time ago!!!



that said i absolutely hate fan-made voice acting, generally because it's not very good. (Parakarry's ok to use since he doesn't suck)