Story… anyone?
As I cruise the web, playing different games that check my interest, there's one thing I'm constantly on the look out for and that's an rpg with a great story. And I've stumbled across a few that claim to have great stories, but those ones are usually single player with horrible interfaces. Usually bad enough to make me forget it's not the 90's.
I don't understand why there is a huge hole in there genre of PBBG's. It could just be that I'm just looking in the wrong place, and if that's case, please educate me. But I'm gonna talk a little about this and pretty much just organize my thoughts on this since this is something I would like to do at some point in time (You know, that 'free time' that people have. I would love to get to know that part of the Time stream...).
When I look at all the times I've played and try to figure out what people avoid quests is mainly the amount of effort needed to build and maintain such a system. I can't argue with that. It would be a large amount of work to create a game that gives you mass player interaction and story game play, but isn't it odd that one still doesn't exist? Maybe there is something else I am missing here.
Maybe it's one of the issues that I have encountered in my head every time I try to think of such a system is how to handle groups of players working together simultaneously. Almost every way I think of takes some control from players, which is something I would like to avoid. Sure I would use javascript and just constantly refresh the page until the players appear, or I could use flash with a server so that I can tell the other players in the room that I've arrived, but both of those solutions seems sloppy to me. I would much rather have it as simple as possible with just html links. This is the biggest hurdle in my opinion, but I dunno.
So does anyone else have any idea's as to way such games don't exist, or if they do exist, links?
How many times have I posted this?
Ya ya... I'm a horrible blogger, developer, and procrastinator. If I can think of any reason to put something off, I will. It's a horrible trait I picked up a few years ago in an accident, but I'm hoping (again) to get back on track. I'm gonna try to take some time every day to work on a post and hope to get about 2 or 3 out a week.
Now, ANY suggestions on posts or topics or anything would be fucking great! Every time I write something I feel like I'm just repeating an older post so if you have any idea's please share em.
I'm also trying to develop more on my free time. I work a mad amount and most of my free time I spend with my gf, but I'm gonna try to also put more time into dev. I have a few friends that are willing to help which will hopefully keep me in line ^^
So, I hope to start development on two games within the next month. Just need to ramp up some lacking PHP skills since I've spent the last year in AS3.