I have been a member on SO for some time now, and have had to almost fight my way to break 100 rep, and then when I come to GameDev I ask one question. I get a comment to review it with what application I am intending to use the answer for, and that person did come back, and refine, but I get an ...
Are you asking for the game genre and mechanics, or the underlying theme? :)
It was a tycoon game about designing an MMORPG. Basically, keeping ahead of the user base as you laid out the MMORPG world. Very simplistic game, really, although there was a silly amount of detail put into the simulation, most of which the player could never actually see.
"I made this sweet MMORPG in MMORPG Tycoon 2 and I was curious about how I would go about getting it made into a real game. Just so you know I have no experience in programming so if there is an engine that requires minimal programming knowledge that would be best. Thanks!"
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is now a complete enough simulation of an MMO that you can actually play the game you design. The only bit it doesn't do is the actual MMO networking part. And there's no in-designed-game crafting system at the moment. And I've kind of abstracted most of the inventory management away. But otherwise, it's mostly there.
(I haven't actually made the GUI elements for letting you list your quests or anything, yet; the AI players all just magically know that sort of information. But I suppose I'll need to create screens for it for a human player, eventually.)
...actually, I think the simulation currently limits each player to only one active quest at a time. Been a long time since I was in that part of the codebase. Need to look that over again. It's a reasonable limit, I think, for modelling AI behaviour, but it might be unexpected for a human player.
Oh cool, I did implement support for one active quest per known quest giver. With vaguely sensible selection of which quest to pursue next (preferring nearby quest locations and appropriate quest levels).
I feel like if you spend a lot of time trying to get your simulator too perfectly match MMOs then you might as well be making the Massively Single Player Offline RPG Toolkit :P
Heh. True. That's not my goal, really. I just keep getting caught up in the "craft the world" part of it. Which really isn't the point of the game. But is probably what most people will wind up spending most of their time on.
It's intended to mostly follow the Roller Coaster Tycoon model; primarily being a set of scenarios to be worked through. But with a "free play" mode where you can build anything you want.
Yes, my site is built on Wordpress. I keep thinking about moving to something more lightweight, but honestly, I'm better at development than at making web sites. Probably better off spending my time on the code, instead of the site.
A cult following? I don't think it does.. it generated a lot of buzz when it was new, but I've been working on version 2 for so long.. my site is pretty tiny and low-traffic, now.
(Been working on version 2 in my spare time for almost four years, now, I think.)
Original release did get a mention in Wired magazine, though. Which was kind of startling. :D
Version 2 is the most ambitious game I've ever worked on. By a pretty wide margin. Still not convinced that I'll actually be able to complete it. Though to be honest, there isn't actually all that much left to do. It's mostly all polish and graphics and level building, now. The tech is basically complete.
Out of curiosity, anyone else use a lot of keyboard shortcuts for navigating text editors (like when programming?) Namely CTRL/CTRL+Shift and then some sort of navigation key (Arrows, Home, End, etc.)
I watch so many people type inefficiently and it kind of drives me a little bonkers. But I'm probably the crazy one! :D
@Jimmy VS ignores underscores so, though I try to avoid it, if I have something like my_variable, any of those shortcuts will delete the whole thing instead of just up to the underscore
Things that come to mind is if there is some stupid naming convention where its like prefix_Name or something like that, then I copy and paste it and just want to delete the Name portion
So If I duplicate a document and just want to change SomeIdentifier1 in the example above... I'm forced to either mash some arrow keys or, GASP! use the mouse
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What are good game development/design blogs to follow?
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If you can, pick a single article that shows high value and share a snippet of it.
