{"id":3283,"date":"2014-07-25T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:45:10","slug":"world-exploration-game-done-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2014\/07\/25\/world-exploration-game-done-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"World-exploration game, done differently"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inspired by Markus \/ @notch, and how he got MineCraft going in the early days, I’m live-prototyping a game idea I’ve been thinking about for ages. It’s about exploring a landscape … where cities affect dungeons, and dungeons affect cities.<\/p>\n

(this is stress-relief for me, an “evenings and weekends” project. By day, I’m helping Schools teach children to program<\/a>, but that’s HARD (no investors, lots of costs – at the moment, I get paid nothing))<\/p>\n

\nPlay in web browser here (very early prototype!)<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

July 2014<\/h2>\n

Current build focusses on the “City building” interface. Initially, you won’t be building cities, you’ll be building small camps \/ trading forts, etc. So this lets me play with the interface, the scale, the rendering, etc. Make sure it’s fun.<\/p>\n

Create something – but take screenshots! Because there’s no “save” yet. Super-early prototype.<\/p>\n

Long term gameplay<\/h2>\n
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  1. Explore a huge landscape in FPS\n
  2. Any location, “create a camp”, and it switches to the isometric view you see in current demo. Build yourself a home\/fort\/etc.\n
  3. Fast-travel between locations, but this triggers “random encounter” events … or run between locations manually.\n
  4. Turn-based \/ DungeonMaster style dungeons are randomly generated near to each camp. Explore the dungeons for resources and to level-up.\n<\/ol>\n

    Unlike e.g. Skyrim … when you find an interesting location, you can’t fast-travel to it. You have to build a camp next to it, and fast-travel to that. But your camp can be overrun\/destroyed\/stolen while you’re away.<\/p>\n

    So … you’ll be building (and maintaining) a lot of bases around the world. I want to be sure that base-building is easy and fun, even after you’ve done it lots of times already, before progressing with the rest!<\/p>\n

    (I’m trying to make it “repeatably fun” by having the landscape HUGELY affect your base design)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Inspired by Markus \/ @notch, and how he got MineCraft going in the early days, I’m live-prototyping a game idea I’ve been thinking about for ages. It’s about exploring a landscape … where cities affect dungeons, and dungeons affect cities. (this is stress-relief for me, an “evenings and weekends” project. By day, I’m helping Schools […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28,9,20,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}