Another Appreciation Post

I truly think it's important to show gratitude of features that we like in Kogama. After all, we are playing a free game and have pretty much limitless access to it. So, it certainly is fair to show appreciation where it's due - even if it's not guaranteed to be seen by the awesome people it's written for. Therefore, I'd like to encourage more people to get in the habit of giving constructive feedback and appreciation for the game.

To be perfectly clear with my intentions of this post, I want us - as a community - to provide a more welcoming environment for the devs to interact with. Since it's easy for players to forget who is responsible for the free entertainment they receive every day here, paying it forward is the least we can do. As members of this community, we should be striving to provide the devs with a safe and engaging environment to interact with us. It should be our duty to encourage the devs to address their entire playerbase often and to actively seek our feedback.

In essence, we should seek a symbiotic relationship with mutual benefit:

• As players and fans, we seek to gain information and purpose about the game's direction. We want to actively contribute in a way that improves our own game experience and that of others. We want to improve the developer's state of mind and help them to be happy with their game's development.
• As game developers, they seek to gain insight about their audience of players. They seek to know if the level they designed or if the feature they implemented improves the enjoyment players receive. They want to verify that they are performing well, and are making a successful game.