The topic of today’s overly long blog post is ‘permanence in online worlds’. A few months ago, as a response to the blog post I made about morality[1], I was quizzed on why there was a necessity to formalise a morality system at all in a game. Many games don’t bother with such consequences, and where they have some kind…
Month: November 2011
Simple Systems, Complex Consequences – Part Three In An Occasional Series
Depth in games is very much a thing in which I am interested. I like games in which I can lose myself, and I like feeling that there is an opportunity for genuine mastery to be built within a set of rules. It sometimes confuses people then that I am so dismissive of complex game systems. So today I am…
Drip-feeding Of New Content
At the moment, those of us working on the development of Epitaph are doing so with ‘live ammo’. It’s one the reasons I don’t like having too many players around – actual players make it difficult to be cavalier with whether or not the game is working. The nature of development and the language we use here is such that…
Viability In Game Builds – Part Two Of An Occassional Series
The second of the immutable rules at the core of Epitaph is – every build should be viable. Now, I know what you are thinking. You are thinking ‘Drakkos, every game has that as a rule, you are derivative and not very smart’. Wow guys, not cool. There’s no need to be like that, I’m going to elaborate – it’s…