Compulsive writer, bookaholic and the guy who walks around with a little notebook to scribble down ideas anytime of the day. Still, someone who knows games are not made to tell players a story, but tools to allow players to write their own.
Breaking the mold (because it is a good thing despite what 'they' say), welcome to a day in today's classic MMO, through the character's point of view.
Convergent evolution: Compare a dolphin and an ichthyosaurus. They look alike, but they got there from completely different paths. Could it be that today’s MMOs are ichthyosaurs and that our dolphins are still to come?
Ding! I leveled up once again! And now I can finally join that raid where I may get that epic item everyone already have! If I try again and again for several weeks...
What's up with end-game and leveling in today's MMOs?
Can MMO's have stories? And why not? On his first post at Gamasutra, JMBeraldo, novelist and lead content designer of an upcoming MMO, analyses how stories are handled today and what is wrong with it.
I understand what you are saying and it makes a lot of sense. The thing is that supposedly when you design a MMO's world, you create more of a groundwork with support elements and background AKA you create a world and not a story . Writing a single-player game is ...
Why do we need to complete quests in which the NPC needs 6 apples to bake a pie Thats the core of the situation. As a matter of context, if quests were multiplayer in how they are presented, it would already make a difference. Maybe the baker NPC is alway ...
Mmm actually that dialogue of yours is one of the things I have argued about with friends and people in the industry before. Looks like that should be the theme of my next post PS: Thanks both of you for the comments
Well, well... Good to know that article sparkled some interesting discussion. Thanks for the interest First and foremost, it must first be clear to everyone that every game mechanic is part of a whole. So simply having a game without levels or following what I described is not enough. There ...
What it is called isn't the matter. 'Meta-story', 'fantasy', 'narrative'. Really, its just a name as any other. What matters is that the label tend to guide designers in the wrong direction. How a story is told varies depending on the media. What we still need to learn is that ...
