revolutionairy games writing

phillyharper · 2004-08-09T01:27:42

Hello community! My first ever post, please dont flame me or tell me im stupid, if im repeating someone else its because im new to the forum. Please if you can read as much as possible. Thanks !! To break this mould of the game after game that is now being released by the games empire EA, something new has to come out. We all saw how revolutionairy half life was. And arguably it wasnt the defining game of its genre, however, its gameplay and style and graphics were revolutionairy. It was easy to pick up and play, the characters took notice from you when you toddled on past. I would not be able to tell you which was the first successful MMPORPG game, everquest? I'm sure someone would be able to tell me. Anyway my point is, these games have broken the mould, and set something new. And from their success comes a whole host of other games all trying to follow in their footsteps only with slightly different twists. (stick with it an idea comes soon, a bloody good one) Where games writing is important, is in this area. To come up with the new, and the different, and COMPLETLEY forget about the action hero who wanders through his linear world created for him killing everything in his path. Or the level 1 character that levels his way to victory in 5 long months. Sure these are successful formats, but now, as a writing community we need to "think outside of the box" Ideas that get thrown out that are completley away from the norm are often immediatley thought to be bad ideas, "wouldnt work" "too difficult". I have an idea which maybe alot of you would say that to. The idea, more of a concept than a story uses to its advantage us, the developers and the enthusaists everywhere around the globe who enjoy making and playing games. What if there were a game which completley relies on webcontent to work. If there were a world created in a game so big that you could wonder around it for days, the disk space required for it would be MASSIVE. Im talking gigabytes. What if there were so many levels for the game, so many experiences for the game that you could never finish it? My point is, is that halflifes modding became so successful that you could spend weeks months or even years playing them all. But what if you made a game that was just that. You make a top end engine, borrowing if neccesairy. And you make the beginnings of a game. A list of characters, the ability to completley design your character, even using 3d Studio max, or downloading one made by a modeller somewhere. The character in this game all start in the same place. and form then on in, they are faced with choices, of where they want to go. Opening one door, or getting onto a boat and sailing somewhere may require some downloading of an island developed by some people in france. But it is downloaded completley seemlessly. In this island, you are faced with whatever the developers have thrown at you, and you come out of this island whenever you please to go somewhere else, carrying with you anything or anyone else you got from the island with you. The point im trying unsuccessfully to make is. Could a game be made that seemlessly downloaded webcontent to make it an almost never ending experience as it is in constant development by gaming fans and players all round the world. There could be oceans, islands, dungeons, cities, sky scrapers, airplanes, spaceships, planets, blackholes, 1000's of AI characters, lakes, fields, dessers, polar ice caps, boats, jungles, rivers, mountains, caves, animals. A completley never ending discovery of new things to do, and new missions to be had. A sort of never ending morrowind. It could be ported to a community based game. What if, an area designed by a group of designers had a mission to do on it. And the first person to do this mission gained some sort of power over this area. The person in power of that area could then rally together an army, to go and take over another area. All of this online? But the servers would only serve certain areas? as there would need to be hundreds. People would say no team is big enough to complete such a task, but there are thousands of us, all waiting to develop. I've seen the talent of you all when developing under a pre made enginge. With pre made tools. Your works are fantastic. Just imagine if that could be seemlessly put together to make a complete online world. run completley by the gamers. Its THE perfect game. its not even a game its a new world. You could be a hitman in 2020 or a war lord in 1066, because a scientest from dehli created a time machine in his developed area. You could be the ruler of a financial empire, or the king of a giant island. Is it just a dream? or could this ever happen. I dont think i explained it too well. Please excuse any spelling errors or grammar mistakes.

Writing for Games Game Design

Started by phillyharper July 28, 2004 07:50 AM

21 comments, last by PimpCow 20 years, 5 months ago

frostburn

380

July 31, 2004 02:44 AM

If the point of the OP's idea is to store the custom "land" on the players machine (or even on a server) and download when you're entering the land, I'd say you'll need something more than a modem for that as well (Unless you're willing to wait for "a few hours" before you continue playing that is)

jbadams

26,386

July 31, 2004 05:07 AM

Damned-straight you will.

- Jason Astle-Adams

PimpCow

122

August 09, 2004 01:27 AM

If the players upload their stuff to the server, it's much easier to slip a bad file in and wreak havok. If the players keep the stuff on their own computers, then it can take a long long time to get the stuff. I mean, what if they turn off their comp? "You must wait 3 hours." 2 hours 59 minutes later. "The player's computer is off, you can't go here anymore. Sucker." It is a good idea, and one that should be developed further, but there are alot of things to think about to make it work.

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