I'm creating an online HTML5 game editor / gaming platform. http://openeditplay.com/ I want to make it possible to create games by drag n' dropping and changing some parameters. Currently the game editor supports convex shapes and particles as visuals. It's not quite enough to make appealing games. Could you help me find the visual style that could be generated by code and is appealing, but is not too hard to configure from parameters? Ideas, example games, images, ...anything is appreciated.

Creating game visuals should be as easy as it gets for the user. However, following conditions must be met:

- There should be some depth in what kind of moods can be created. All games must not look the same.

- Results should be so appealing that the editor (or gaming platform) will attract users.

Examples:

- It would be cool to create something a bit complex than this:

- Too complex to generated by code:

Also, if you would need to build a character and world using only lines, simple shapes, gradients, glow and shadow, would it be fun? Thank you so much.

Good question. Target is people who dislike the complexity and heaviness of game development (from installing tools to publishing). They could be retired game devs, gamers who want to make their first game, and prototype maker game devs.

The goal of this project is to discover one of following: 1) People want to use my service. 2) A bigger group or company took my idea and made it better. 3) Game devs rather use Unity or similar software to make games.

You have a point there. I imagined that it would be sweet to let users create games just by selecting components and parameters. It would keep the size of games small and wouldn't require any loading screens. But it's probably more fun to also use sprites.

Thanks for making me think this throught.

Yes, I agree. I Watched a video that demonstrates new Unity 2d world building features and got some inspiration. Bunch of Public Domain sprite assets and paint tools is the way to go. Thank you!

I’m glad to hear that you are interested!

Game filtering and reviewing will be one of the most important things when games start appearing. I hope I can nail it.