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I agree with the need to put quality over quantity. I discovered last night
that Charles Gilman has now created over 180 games. How many of these have
I played? Zero. I have occasionally looked at some of his games, but none
have ever appealed to me. Given that he has not written a single ZRF or
Game Courier preset for any of his games (except maybe for one co-credited
with Tony Quintanilla), I can only assume that he is not making use of
these tools to prototype and playtest his games. Looking at the games he
has played on Game Courier, I count only five. I wonder if he plays his
games much at all. I'm under the impression that he will publish any new
game idea that pops into his head. This is classic proliferation. But it
hurts his own games more than it hurts the games of others. Putting out
more and more games doesn't much improve the chances that someone will
eventually play one. What would help is spending time on development and
presentation, so that people are more likely to want to play his games,
and spending time on providing means, whether through Zillions-of-Games or
Game Courier, for people to play the games.