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[nathanp812]

Hi everyone,

I am studying game design and am currently working on a major project which involves developing design documentation and building a game.

Part of the project involves conducting research and to obtain statistical information which will allow me to fine tune my game idea.

Please feel free to complete this survey on this thread.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Survey Questions
1. What is your age bracket?
a) Under 8 years old
9 to 13 years old
c) 13 to 16 years old
d) 18 to 25 years old
e) 26 to 30 years old
f) Over 30 years old

2. What is your gender?

3. What is your country of origin?

4. What is your favourite genre of game?
a) RPG
Action
c) MMORPG
d) Adventure
e) Sandbox
f) Puzzle
g) Sport
h) RTS
i) Racing
j) FPS

5. What type of game do you prefer to play?
a) Linear
Open ended
6. Estimate how many hours per day do you spend playing games?
a) Less than 1
Between 1 and 5 hours
c) Between 5 and 10 hours
d) More than 10 hours

7. What time of the day do you usually find yourself playing games?
a) Morning
Afternoon
c) Evening
d) All day

8. Do you like Japanese game shows?
a) Yes
No

9. Do you prefer first person view or third person view?
a) First person
Third person

10. Would you choose a game based on the following?
a) Graphics and sound
Novel concept

11. Which of the following two games would interest you more?
a) FIFA 2008
Football Manager 2008

12. Do you prefer the following?
a) Wacky games
Realistic simulations

[juhnu]

I think you should add some questions about community/social factor in games and whether people prefer online playing or single player gaming experiences. Now you are pretty much ignoring half of the world..

[Sakar]

Here you go. Probably not exactly what you want, but I did answer the questions :)

1. What is your age bracket?
c) 13 to 16 years old

2. What is your gender?
Male

3. What is your country of origin?
United States

4. What is your favourite genre of game?
a) RPG
b) Action
c) MMORPG
d) Adventure
e) Sandbox
f) Puzzle
h) RTS
i) Racing
j) FPS
All of the above except sports. Not interesting to me.

5. What type of game do you prefer to play?
b) Open ended

6. Estimate how many hours per day do you spend playing games?
c) Between 5 and 10 hours

7. What time of the day do you usually find yourself playing games?
d) All day

8. Do you like Japanese game shows?
b) No

9. Do you prefer first person view or third person view?
a) First person
b) Third person
I like both.

10. Would you choose a game based on the following?
b) Novel concept

11. Which of the following two games would interest you more?
a) FIFA 2008
b) Football Manager 2008
Neither one interests me at all

12. Do you prefer the following?
a) Wacky games
b) Realistic simulations
I like both.


I also agree with juhnu, social factor is a big part of games.

[nathanp812]

juhnu said:

I think you should add some questions about community/social factor in games and whether people prefer online playing or single player gaming experiences. Now you are pretty much ignoring half of the world..

Yes, I see your point. However my project is small and will not have any online capabilities. So I figured that those questions didn't fit into the scope of what I was setting out to achieve with the survey.

[Mattias Gustavsson]

juhnu said:

I think you should add ..

I think you should make your own survey if there's things you want to find out :lol:

It's a survey. You either take it, or you don't - you don't try and change it :glare:

[juhnu]

Mattias Gustavsson said:

I think you should make your own survey if there's things you want to find out :lol:

It's a survey. You either take it, or you don't - you don't try and change it :glare:

Well.. I only tried to say that he is missing one of the major element in the survey and that might or might not be relevant for him.

It's like you are working on a new cat-food, but you did include only vegetarian diets on the survey and by looking the answer only you see that 80% of the cats absolutely loved turnips and will base your food on that to only see that 99% of cats wont be eating anything but fish anyway.

[Mattias Gustavsson]

If you want to help him, do the survey :D

A cat-food maker who made a survey like your example, would already have their fish-facts figured out - and the purpose of their survey would be purely to find out about their vegetarian brand...

[juhnu]

Mattias Gustavsson said:

If you want to help him, do the survey :D

A cat-food maker who made a survey like your example, would already have their fish-facts figured out - and the purpose of their survey would be purely to find out about their vegetarian brand...

There is nothing to indicate that the cat-food maker would have even though of fishes.. the reason for my original reply being exactly that it seems that in many cases western world tends to traditionally unemphasize the social/online aspect in gaming..