June 21st, 2012 at 12:18PM
Last night I talked with my partner and artist, Dennot. He finally admited that he doesn’t want to work on the game anymore, which was “totally unexpected”. We both agreed that the game sucks balls! The game is so dull, as he said; and it simply doesn’t have a point or goal, I said. It is just walk into the endless posibilities of a randomly generated world and kill everything that moves towards you. That it’s not fun at all. I told my mate: “I will think of something to fix this, I always do”, so I made a chart and analyzed what we already have: Engine for randomly generated worlds (either overworld and caves). 3D mechanics. Multiplayer. Literal survival. This is may sound well, but should we try another game genre besides a simple zombie shooter? What about an RPG? Hmmm? If we changed the style from zombies to RPG, we wouldn’t only change the look of the game, we are able to change the whole game! …And we would also be keeping the things we already have, without screwing our my hard work. We would be adding: Level up system. Classes (not only different characters with different weapons). Money and shops; this may also make players trade? Pets? Like… Y’know… Companions that help? QUESTS: “Go to that dungeon and kill that… Ehm… Giant lion..? The lion who stole my purse!” (this definitely will add a goal to the game. And my favorite: Way more enemies and bosses! (not only zombies). ….And way more possibilities that could be added since it’s a magical world, where anything could happen; instead of the actual time, where anything weird would result illogical and must bi discarded. Since it is going to be a MMO, and a randomly generated world would scramble everything up, this is what we could design a big, big, BIG overworld map, with towns, caves, and stuff by ourselves, and use our beloved randomly generating ambient mechanic to make dungeons (ugh, I am sick of saying “randomly generated”). And I haven’t even made a “point & shoot” code, so should we use it or try something else? Perhaps something kind of “click to move”, like League of Legends?

Last night I talked with my partner and artist, Dennot. He finally admited that he doesn’t want to work on the game anymore, which was “totally unexpected”. We both agreed that the game sucks balls! The game is so dull, as he said; and it simply doesn’t have a point or goal, I said. It is just walk into the endless posibilities of a randomly generated world and kill everything that moves towards you. That it’s not fun at all.

I told my mate: “I will think of something to fix this, I always do”, so I made a chart and analyzed what we already have:

  • Engine for randomly generated worlds (either overworld and caves).
  • 3D mechanics.
  • Multiplayer.
  • Literal survival.
This is may sound well, but should we try another game genre besides a simple zombie shooter? What about an RPG? Hmmm?
If we changed the style from zombies to RPG, we wouldn’t only change the look of the game, we are able to change the whole game! …And we would also be keeping the things we already have, without screwing our my hard work. We would be adding:
  • Level up system.
  • Classes (not only different characters with different weapons).
  • Money and shops; this may also make players trade?
  • Pets? Like… Y’know… Companions that help?
  • QUESTS: “Go to that dungeon and kill that… Ehm… Giant lion..? The lion who stole my purse!” (this definitely will add a goal to the game.
  • And my favorite: Way more enemies and bosses! (not only zombies).
….And way more possibilities that could be added since it’s a magical world, where anything could happen; instead of the actual time, where anything weird would result illogical and must bi discarded.
Since it is going to be a MMO, and a randomly generated world would scramble everything up, this is what we could design a big, big, BIG overworld map, with towns, caves, and stuff by ourselves, and use our beloved randomly generating ambient mechanic to make dungeons (ugh, I am sick of saying “randomly generated”).

And I haven’t even made a “point & shoot” code, so should we use it or try something else? Perhaps something kind of “click to move”, like League of Legends?

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June 14th, 2012 at 12:17AM

I played this game, Legacy of the Wizard for NES.

It is SO great! Seriously, I have never seen so much strategy in a platformer. If you make wrong decisions in the game, you’re dead! I liked it SO much.

I’m still going to play a few rounds and then go to sleep.

Check out a gameplay of it:

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Oh, I might make a game inspired from this in a game jam or something. It is so cool!

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June 10th, 2012 at 10:27PM

The Million Character Game?

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June 4th, 2012 at 6:36PM

Randomly generated dungeon (attempt 2), that’s more like it…. But still, needs more changes!

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June 4th, 2012 at 6:30PM

First attempts at making a randomly generated dungeon. Needs adjustments.

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June 4th, 2012 at 6:07PM
Did I just break the game? :I

Did I just break the game? :I

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June 4th, 2012 at 6:04PM
For those who doesn’t have a single idea of how Viral looks.

For those who doesn’t have a single idea of how Viral looks.

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