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Might Drop Interactive Battles

Posted by teejay-number13 - September 29th, 2017

I might drop the interactive battles from my WoC series. With .SWF support being dropped from browsers in the future, it's likely that the later episodes won't be able to have it anyway. But let's look at some stats.

Episode 8 on Newgrounds has 117,000 veiws but only 658 people earned the Medal from the interactive battle.
Episode 9 on NG has 2700 views and less then 100 people participated in the interactive battle.

I have no way of knowing how many people played the interactive version on DeviantArt, but I barely have a following on there (only 254 veiws on ep 9). Of course, youtube doesn't do the interactivity anyway.

The interactive battles are cool, but they increase production time substantially and the programming tends to burn me out quickly, which makes me not want to work on it.

What do you think?

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HerbieG 2017-09-30 08:28:08

Take a look at it from the other side: it makes those interactive battles elite :-)
Maybe try to do the opposite? Make a game with such battles, rpg-style evolution, upgrade system with some cut-scenes? With your skills I'm sure it would be of very high quality, although I know that it would require some time.

teejay-number13 2017-09-30 08:28:08 (Updated 2017-09-30 09:04:31)

A full blown Pokemon game wouldn't be practical in flash. Besides, the story takes precedence over the battles.

straberrykiler6789 2017-09-30 11:07:41

If you don't do it now you will never get another shot at it, interactive elements and Easter eggs that lead to secret things once there gone there gone forever!

Browsers are also adding other components that could run flash.

You can even run certain versions of Microsoft Windows in browser with WebAssembly/javascript.
The flash plugin is just an app with Browser specific features Thus we can have a means of playing flash without having to install a plugin.
Proof its possible
https://www.google.com/search?q=Windows+98+in+web+asm
Future browsers will be perfectly capable of using Dosbox to play DOOM its not a big stretch to get flash working in such a way, we could even streamline it so new grounds would work the same as it always did even if there is no flash plugin!

our biggest concern is how newgrounds needs to get its audience back right now, i did a news post about this, maybe other people could throw around ideas

teejay-number13 2017-09-30 11:07:41

Well, I'll still release the series on Newgrounds, just not with the interactive battles. Only about 1% of the people who watch it on NG are participating in the battles anyway.

Tamien 2017-09-30 18:20:35

I'm more here for the story elements of World of Chaos than I ever was for the interactive elements. Maybe if it had been a thing since the very start I might have felt different, but as it was something that was added in later I didn't really feel the need for it.

I'd say drop it.

lurkingSombres 2017-10-03 23:34:08

I don't mind. If it makes things easier, go for it.

cryingeagle 2017-10-04 14:39:30

Whatever you prefer. Thanks for putting such effort into this man!

00tc00 2017-10-17 10:20:46

ditch the interactive battles, its not worth your effort at this point since it takes too much of your time to not get much from it.keep up the good work btw.

WorldWalker128 2017-10-29 22:25:24

Interaction is cool and all, but I don't need the bells and whistles be it interactivity, or voice-acting. I came for a cool Pokemon story, and I've liked what I've seen so far.

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