Sounds good indeed Tom, ----- particularly as by summer I'll have read
enough starwars books to get all the background, lol!
I do stil however find myself incredibly surprised that people are having to
write this kind of game from scratch, rather than there being one already.
graphically, I can think of a number of rpgs that fit the bill, -----
allbeit most are magitech anime style scifi rather than traditional, and of
course eeve online has as much potential for single player exploration
missions and quests as world of warcraft.
then again as I said, Sryth is probably the only thing I've found in a
fantasy setting which does this, so I shouldn't be overly surprised at the
lack of something scifi.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?
Hi Dark,
Actually, by summer i should have something that is right up your alley.
As you might recall a couple of weeks ago I was talking about a text based
RPG game engine for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Over teh holidays i have
taken some time to write up some initial code for it, and one of the game
ideas I have been sampling with is a Star Wars roll playing fantacy game
during the clone wars. You can basically pick from a list of popular races
and classes and train to be a Jedi at the jedi temple. As you get better
you can then travel to various worlds and get involved in various
missions.
dark wrote:
Hi. a combination of reading starwars novels, playing Eamon and Sryth,
and watching my brother play Final fantasy crysis core on the psp is
really getting me in the mood for something scifi, but every online game
I've looked at in a scifi setting seems to be either a, galactic empire
building pvp stratogy, or B, galactic ship sales pvp trading! I must
admit i'm getting a litle hacked off here. for me, one of the major
attractions of startrek, starwars, doctor who, babylon 5 etc is
exploration of the various worlds, different land scapes and alien races.
of course as these are works of fiction I'm also interested in the
characters, the politics etc, but from a purely scifi point of view
(particularly in something like Starwars or Doctor who which has a very!
diverse landscape), there's quite a lot of stuff to explore. I find it
completely astonishing that every single scifi game has only focused on
the statistical elements of player interaction and/or combat, ---- and to
be brutally honest, find it rather silly. Afterall, if people want to
play the stock markit, they can just pick up the financial times. while I
can see the attraction of pvp combat (though as I've said before it's not
something which interests me at all), I'm amazed that nobody has
developed an online scifi game which does not have this focus. Admitedly
I'm probably expecting a lot, afterall, the only things I've found in the
pure fantasy genre along these lines are Sryth and various
gamebooks, ---- and to a lesser extent any of the Logd or KoL varients.
smugglers 4 I really like for the non linnier game structure, missions
and backstory, though I'm slightly disappointed that the actual planets
themselves don't play a larger part in the game in terms of being unique
locations, and also that there weren't any new systems to go to in S4 as
compared to S3. eitherway though, S4 isn't an online game. Basically,
what I'm looking for is Sryth in space, ie, you have your spaceship, fly
around and have adventures, ----- basically sryth, in space!
If anyone knows a game like that I'd be interested to here about it, ----
possibly a mud? ---- though i admit I have heard many muds are pvp stat
grinders. Any input here would be appreciated. Beware the Grue! Dark.
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