MMO Teams everywhere, but not a game to spare.

XisZ · 2005-09-06T17:15:13

It seems that everyone recently (this past couple years) just wants to make MMO's. But the thing is, the more I see these teams, the more I just want to tell them to stop and think. From what I have seen is that they play through a MMO and they say "Hey, I want to make one to" But what they dont realize is that they are jumping in far to deep. Here is the 3 most major errors I seen in people who do just say "I want to make a game" ________________________________________________________________________________ Talent Most of these people have no experience in game development. And yet they beleive they have the ability to become this great person overnight. You need to be able to contribute somehow to have a succesful project. Be it Programming, 3D/2D Art, Music, anything that you can! But as I said before, these people usually have no talent at all in this industry which is a very very hard one to boot. I think that this is needed because your staff will be happy to see that your not just useing them. If you work on it yourself, NO MATTER WHAT THE SIZE OF THE JOB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Money OK, So let us assume you have talent in the game design area. Do you have the funds to support a MMO? Because, MMO's are THE hardest thing to pay for there is. Servers, at there least (100MBps, 1GB RAM, 2x Intel Xeon 2.7GHz) are $600 per month. Even to a rich man thats alot of money, hell thats an H2 Hummer right there! I have seen a few cases of people that are allowed to use there schools servers, but they eventually will be kicked off them and have to fend for themselves. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Managment Alrighty then, you have talent, and have money...Can you manage the project? As the founder, the staff will look to you for directions. And if you cant point them in the right direction, your team will ultimatly fail. Poor managment is what makes what I would say 80% of these projects end. I even seen a team that were professionals...but there leader was horrible and didnt know that there was actually a programming language called C++....(Kinda sad really, being as he got some professionals on his team and never got to use them) Most managers just say "Go make a red haired guy for me. use your imagination" What they should say is "We need a red haired character, about 5'8'' muscular with blue eyes, here is some concept art as well" And they can not organize things nicely as well....have you ever seen someone just put all there files in ONE folder...I mean ALL THE FILES. Music, Source, Models, Text docs, everything! At least put it in a "Music Folder" "Source Folder" "Model Folder" "Text Folder" layout, rather then just one big lazy pile of files. ________________________________________________________________________________ So now, what can we do to repair this problem? That is the most simplest thing to answer...... START SMALL! No, you dont have to start with a PONG/TETRIS/MARIO clone. You can start with whats called a OneHourGame. Its basicly any genre you want, 2d or 3d. At most it will require 4 people... 2 Programmers, Musician, 3D/2D Artist What you do is make it very cliche' just make it the best design you can possibly make. Story, gameplay, and even art is unneeded. Just design it....DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN. This will give you some of the needed experience to work on something bigger. Each time you make a new game, improve on features you left out in the last one. For example, Game 1: RPG Game 2: RPG w/ better graphics Game 3: RPG w/ better story Game 4: RPG w/ better gameplay Game 5: My First MMORPG Game 6: My Second MMORPG, CLANS! Game 7: My Third MMORPH, Many features!!! Game 8: My Fourth MMORPG, I WILL CHARGE FOR THIS ONE!!!

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Started by XisZ September 01, 2005 02:55 PM

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September 06, 2005 05:15 PM

I am very new here and I would like to share something I see as a flaw (please correct me if I am wrong)

I do not see anything truely focused on the testing side of developing these MMO games... I seriously think that folks in general do not understand the scope of their own game enough. If this is the case, how can we expect them to be tested effectively? The trend I see currently, Thanks to UO and EQ1, is that pushing broken systems is ok because the users will figure out the bugs... am I the only one here that sees this?

Sorry I cannot go into too much depth but I am working ATM :D

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