If you make a valuable suggestion, it will be considered. We don’t just read feedback, we respond to it, both in Discord chat, and in the way those conversations inform future designs. You’ll frequently find purple names (denoting dev team members) in SAR matches and on our Discord server, where we’re reading and responding to #sar-feedback, riffing about our process in #sar-general, and marveling at the incredible #sar-art. The wall between the development team and the broader SAR community is intentionally porous. How do we know what the community thinks? Because we’re part of it. While it can be hard to quantify the overall impact of these design choices, we know qualitatively they are noticed and embraced by the community. We want you to go study for that final, go outside, take breaks, live a balanced life. Games are ultimately just one of many ways to spend your leisure time, and while we’re thrilled if you want to spend time playing our game, we’re strong believers in shorter play sessions spread out over a longer period of time. We don’t want players to skip out on studying for that final because they’re grinding to finish a pass, nor feel like they missed out because their pass expired while they were studying for that final. While the FOMO-inspiring limited time battle passes do drive engagement, they also drive unhealthy habits, like marathon grinds to complete a pass before it expires. Rather than expiring at the end of a season, players can continue working on their Animal Passes after each season is officially over, and can even purchase and complete prior Animal Passes at their own pace.
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Our new Animal Pass Archive system, for instance, is designed to reduce the unhealthy play times associated with many battle passes. We’ve enlisted the advice of Ramin Shokrizade who has written extensively on the topic as it pertains to metagame design, and we try to assess every design decision through this lens. Every game can also seek to be respectful of a player’s time and attention, and to discourage unhealthy play habits. Not every game can combat gamer rage with kittens and puns, of course, but every game can pay close attention to the key moments when players are going to be feeling frustration to soften the blow and also consider the player’s emotional health more broadly in their design. Every design decision in Super Animal Royale, from the short match length, to the cuddly character designs, goofy cosmetics and weapons and absurdist lore, is intended to blunt the agony of defeat, and to remind you that, while it offers genuinely intense action, you probably don’t want to take a fight that involves banana peels and armed monkeys too seriously. So, while a death animation in which your character explodes into a pile of spaghetti, followed by a message informing you that “You have been dis koalafied…” might seem like the devs just getting the sillies out (and, to be clear, it’s that too), the deeper intent is to subtly remind you that this is just a game.
Every design decision contributes to whether a player becomes more or less frustrated, and while some negative feelings are inevitable in a genre in which you’re guaranteed to lose more than you win, we try to soften the edges of those bad feelings wherever we can.
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