polish

Spend some dedicated time just to polishing the atmosphere, aesthetic, and sound engine. These things are important for players to immerse themselves in the game world. Immersive games are almost always better, and add to the content of the game as much as a new mechanic.

Nothing is more disgusting for a low-resolution image/texture than interpolation. Ugh. I'd highly recommend that the developers remove all interpolation from skins. It causes all sorts of bleeds from irrelevant parts of the texture image into the actual skin, blurs the image, and makes the...