It was an amazing experience and find so much support from many people around the world is really interesting! Thank you!
This post is together a post mortem on how create a survey on this topic and about actual results.
Audience
In this
first part of the survey, we have some audience informations:
Pro: In our
audience, most of people are between 18-40 years, perfect target for our
purposes.
Cons: This
result seems are heavily influenced from online communities we selected for the
survey. Better results could be achieved with a mix between different sources,
for example social networks and online advertisement.
Pro: too
many men!
Cons: We
suggest to find some better sources for intercept females preferences on card,
board and video games, because are an interesting potential market for any kind
of games!
Disclaimer:
we do not clean data and aggregate answers, because are interesting per-se. Many
persons answer on this question using country name (Italy, Germany, USA), but
also city name (Trento, Bristol, others...). Some funny results are omitted,
like “Hell”.
Pro: a lot
of answers not only from Europe and USA, but also from other part of the world
(New Zealand, Australia, Brazil)
Cons: next
time we must consider a closed list of nations and find a way to extend survey
using different languages, because with English we forced ourselves in a
limited list of countries, forgetting of all east countries like Japan, China
or Spanish countries like Mexico, Argentina, etc…
Video games
In this
part of the survey, we analyze how much time people dedicate to play
videogames:
Pro: many
people dedicate a decent amount of time in playing videogames
Cons: 4x
games requires generally a lot of time, so playing same game for many days
seems reasonable, in next survey this is something to consider
Board games
This part
of the survey analyze board game preferences of our audience:
Pro: a lot
of people like Risk and Settlers of Catan, but also don’t play board games
Cons: this
question could be improved adding a simple “why you don’t play board games”?
Today there are a lot of possibility to find amazing board games in local
groups or using online groups, for us something to validate is to find what
kind of barrier there is for new players.
Pro: people
dedicate not too much time
Cons: most
of the people seems do not want to dedicate too much time playing board games.
Next surveys must investigate about reasons behind it. Does it need too much
time? Need to gather with friend in same place?
Card games
Pro:
Heartstone is right now the leading card games. This is not a surprise for me,
but follow the trend of Magic the gathering and surprising… Poker!
Cons: many
people do not play card games and this could be a problem in a 4x/card game mix
Pro: there is a solid base (39%) of our audience,
which play card games more than 2 hours in a month
Cons: more
than board game, most of the people do not play card games too much and for
future survey must take into consideration reason behind this choice
4x games
This part
of the survey try to understand how much people know about 4x games. In
original survey there was one key question “do you know what 4x means?” and
more than 80% of audience know what does it mean.
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Pro: my
assumption, now validated, is that many people hate micro management in 4x
games, followed by lack of personalization
Cons: there
is a lot of data and ideas behind and find one “single” hate point in 4x games
is really difficult
Pro: many
people are interested in space based 4x settings and games like new Master of Orion
reboot or Stellaris are on the right direction!
Cons: many,
many ideas for settings in 4x games, force audience in choose only one is a limitation.
Should be better to set this question as open question ?
Core question
Main objective
of this survey was to answer to a simple question:
Pro: few people are not interested in a mix between
4x and card game
Cons: with
a question like that, is difficult to say what kind of mix people will like
more: more board/video game than a card game, or more a card game ?
Conclusion
My idea to mix together 4x games and card game in an unique experience could be interesting for other people than me. Key question is : how ? I have to think about it and I'm working a paper prototype following ideas from this survey and talking with friends.
I'd like to have more comments below and more feedback as possible, so feel free to ask!
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