Hi Tom.
actually, it's lack of this type of game which has been the biggest
temptation for me to go into programming myself, ----- though of course,
life circumstances, my phd, stage performances and the fact that I'd
actually like to get some proper writing done (sinse that's I think going to
be my main career path), have all got seriously in the way.
this is why I've been such a big supporter of the expanded gamebook formats
such as Sryth, age of fable and the Chronicles of arborell.
I'm just rather sad nobody has exploited the exploration potential of scifi,
sinse imho it's potential is just as great as fantasy as a setting, -----
pluss it lacks so many sterriotypes that often get in the way of building an
interesting fantasy world.
eg, in a fantasy game you can just state that goblins are an evil race of
demihumans and leave it at that, where as to setup an evil alien race like
the daleks or the shadows takes work in background.
Of course good fantasy game writers such as Mathew yarrows in Sryth can also
give goblins etc extra info and background, ----- but it's horribly easy
imho (as the generic grindable monsters in pvp games show), to just state
"goblin warrior, 5 hp" and leave it at that.
Oh, and on the monster background, this is one of the things I'm really
liking in the entombed game.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?
Hi Dark,
Yeah, I know. It really comes down to the same old problem. If it is
accessible it tends to lean to PVP combat or another space trading type
game. If it is something we might actually like with a complete RPG story
mode and setting it probably isn't screen reader friendly. It is usually a
lose lose situation for us. Writing my own accessible RPG games was the
only thing I could come up with that remotely sounded reasonable.
dark wrote:
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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