Opinion on Adopt Me games

Personally, I do not like the adopt me games. However, I am very much okay with these games being on KoGaMa as a long-time player/game creator. When I first joined, KoGaMa didn't really have a particular age group that it was focused on, so these kinds of games did not exist, at least on the old US server (Friends server). Over the years, KoGaMa has been played by some popular YouTubers such as Julia MineGirl and later KonekoKitten, which both of these YouTubers are greatly known for playing games with quasi-similar blocky, and creative features to them, such as Roblox and Minecraft. With these YouTubers already having a large audience of kids, they were one of these groups introduced to KoGaMa, which is uniquely different, but similar in some aspects comparing to the other games that these YouTubers played. Of course these other groups being those who came from click game sites and those who possibly found it by chance over the internet (such as myself).

So even though I never entirely played and created games on the EU (www) server back then, I would highly assume that many of today's trendy games have had their ideas formed from the games created by the Roblox community, such as Parkours; which is derived from the "Obby" games but its name is instead replaced by the name of the Parkour block (ironic enough as they rarely make use of these blocks in comparison to much older times), and/or the IRL "parkour" trend (which I also did a quick look on Roblox and it appears they are now utilizing this term more over "Obby" which even baffles me a bit). Throughout the years, KoGaMa will see new game trends form, some old trends remain, and even some old trends disappear and become fossilized, especially due to those who made these games moving on with their lives and the tastes of new generations. In the past few years, the game trends on KoGaMa's front page has appeared to shift more towards the Roblox side of things, which Roblox is what has been known to carry a lot of these "kid friendly games". And since KoGaMa has been (still) slowly becoming popularized due to its particular similarities with Roblox, it appears that those who play KoGaMa are constantly learning to develop some clever ways to instantly popularize their games and have it ingrained on the front page for months to even years.

Copying game ideas from popular Roblox front-page games to KoGaMa is simple. But what's interesting enough, is that getting these games to be popular to some degree is also very simple. Of course, KoGaMa has some ways that are superficial to make your games popular. Due to the large spectrum of curiosity that KoGaMa's audience of players has, you could make a parkour game with a "trendy" theme and manage to popularize it somehow through some simple steps. Highly-creative game photos are usually a huge bonus for this because that's what makes it more eyecatching and easier to click on. But what's really mind-boggling is that some of these "ingrained" front page games have cover photos that are just effortless, so how do they do it? Well, as complicated as trying to explain this is already getting, it's more of the overall game's performance that matters in more recent days, as a majority of KoGaMa's players have all flocked towards playing on mobile in attempt to capture that desired "YL spot" on the leaderboard, and/or just play on their parent's devices. As from what I've made in this past year on KoGaMa, two of my games that won Game of the Week and were pinned on the front page had different sides of people in the comments section: those who had no problems with the game and liked it to some degree, and those who had below average game performance due to frame rate issues and spammed angry Block Boy/Hero emojis in response to it.

So basically with KoGaMa, we have an amazing and flourishing community, especially on the Discord server, which is comprised of players both newer and older. A lot of us in this particular community tend to appreciate creative, original games with incredible designs. So it doesn't really matter if a game is extremely laggy for us, we will still appreciate it for its outstanding particularities. But of course KoGaMa has all sorts of communities, excluding the main one which I just talked about here. A lot of us in these "greater communities" may not appreciate these new trendy games at all (in this case the "Adopt Me" games), because of course they are noobish and just not worth playing unless you are either bored, curious to see what the game is really all about, you need your daily Gold/XP bonus, etc. However, what is to be appreciated about them, is that they are what the newer, younger players enjoy playing the most.

Of course each KoGaMa game is different in some way. Some of these Adopt Me games have different themes and settings to them, which gives the players a new experience each time, almost like reading another book in a series. Many of these newer, younger players tend to play in some friend groups together, which they all form great memories playing in these Adopt Me games together. If they don't already have some sort of small friend group, they make one. The Adopt Me games actually remind me a lot of the days of Club Penguin, which I loved playing on there with friends from school as a kid I remember. And especially having different Puffles in my igloo (the pets in Club Penguin) was great to me. The idea of "Adopt Me" is even beneficial as kids learn together in some ways of the responsibilities that are faced when adopting something or someone. But of course, not as much to some realistic degree. So combined with a smooth frame-rate performance, I'm sure a good majority of these newer players are having a great time on these games, and that is what really matters the most. And of course, the idea of this Adopt Me trend is what inspires the players to keep popularizing it with their own versions, and even invent new ideas for it. KoGaMa's game trends honestly remind me a lot of how the music industry has become. The boomers will keep cranking up their 70s rock albums in their cars and jeer at all of the rap music in the same way that a lot of us experienced KoGaMa players will play our well-built adventure games and criticize the War 4 and Adopt Me games.

As someone who has been playing on KoGaMa for over 8 years, I can understand how a lot of players have been harshly criticizing the Adopt Me games. Of course, new trends mean change, and sometimes such change is a hard thing to accept. Over time you learn to appreciate it. Of course I have dealt with many new trends on KoGaMa throughout those years, and I remember going through phases of it being hard to accept those trends. Yes, I even despise Adopt Me games to some degree personally, but I don't complain about it, as others enjoy it. We all enjoy different things in our lives that others may not enjoy in the same way as you do. For example, I'm into complex forms of jazz music myself and almost no one wants to listen to that for a living. It's really just a situation where you have to picture yourself being in the shoes of others, and connect it to similar situations that you may have experienced from your past, and that's how you can be able to appreciate the Adopt Me games, if that makes any sense. Regarding the last question, of course it deserves the 1 million plays! The creators earned it. Things in life happen for a reason.