Original 'Online World' Concept - Comments Wanted!

Mandarijn · 2002-06-11T09:55:07

Okay, Imagine that you could play a game that is a simplified simulation of life. What is simulated is our lifecycle of being born, growing up, making a living, finding a partner, building a house, making children, taking up a role in the community and ultimately when old dying. Now, those other people are real people, they are not computer controled, never, but controled by real people. So if you get born through your mom, that will be another player, who got pragnend in that world by having sex with another male. Now the objective for you as a player in that world would be as in real life, to furfill the pyramid of needs from Maslow. First of all you want to stay alife, otherwise when you die you have to start all over again, grow a new character. So other players can kill you all the time, just like in real life. Of course, the game would be cheap if there wouldn't be more aspects to the game than simply surviving. In this world you can grow, physicaly, through time when you eat enough. You will have to be shure that you eat enough food regularly to keep fit, strong, and ultimately stay alife. You can eat by eather growing it yourself (farming) or stealing or cooperating with others. You will have to protect that piece of land. In the beginning, the first weeks you play your character you will depend on your parents a lot for food and protection. You might have to help them growing the food, you can play with other children, play with them, learn how to fight, how to seduce, how to be the leader of the group or just a good teammember in teasing the other children. When you become old, big enough you can start thinking at having a boy/girlfriend and having sex with her/him (advise to the player: Watch out though,it might be fun to have sex with other gender but you can get children from it!). You can start your own family, build your own house, grow your own food. The interesting part of this game should be how people start to organize themselves into communities. How they start to cooperate, create social rules and political structures. Okay, I'll leave it until here. I have a lot to explain still but this is the foundation of the game. Any comments, questions, advise, remarks? [edited by - Mandarijn on May 30, 2002 2:41:43 PM] [edited by - Mandarijn on June 4, 2002 7:14:38 AM]

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Started by Mandarijn May 29, 2002 07:20 AM

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Marc De Mesel

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June 11, 2002 09:20 AM

Hi Moth,

What would you think of a cartoony funny hippy style. That it feels like some nintendo colorly world in a cloudy setting?

Something that''s really funny.

And then about the male problem :-) Well, research did on eEverquest revealed that there are many males that take on the female role because they are simply more popular in the game. That get done things more easily than other people. So because if that it balances again in the middle.

greets,
Marc

I'm in the middle of a start-up. We are planing to go online soon with our concept and are in the search for talented motivated enthousiastic programmers!

EAX

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June 11, 2002 09:55 AM

I''ve had an idea similar to this, but more with an objective to the game, and one of the ideas of mine was to take some attributes from the father and some from the mother so that when the child is born the attributes are mixed and there are similarities to both parents. I don''t have any plans in finishing all of my ideas to completion though, so Maybe this will help you if you decide to complete your ideas.

EAX

EAX

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