Hi, Thomas, I've always thought that the Adept books would make a great game world. I'd particularly like to see The Game from Proton coded into something cool, but I like the juxtaposition, as it were, of science and magic, and a character that would have different talents, skill choices and paths to pursue based on which world they were in.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:17 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch Hi Dark, Regardless if I create the game as a stand alone game in C++ or create it as an online game I want to make it a single player game. I'm not really interested in creating a party or pvp type game at this point. As far as your idea of creating a universe with mixed technological skills that kind of reminds me of an author I sometimes read. I don't know if you have read any of Piers Anthony's books, but he often has an interesting way of mixing science fiction and fantacy into the same story. For example, in the Blue Adept Piers Anthony describes a world with two aspects. In one frame it is a high tech world with computers, androids, intersteller space travel, lasers, and anything else you would expect from a science fiction novel. In the other frame it is a fantacy type world complete with werewolves, unicorns, people use magic instead of technology, etc. Some people are able to pass between the two frames of existance. Thus the main character is able to be both active in a fantacy and science fiction story at the same time. Anyway, even big name science fiction stories like Star Wars do have a fantacy aspect to them as well. If you think about it Star Wars is something like a fantacy story set in a science fiction setting. Instead of magic you have the force. Instead of swords you have light sabers. Instead of knights waring armour you have storm troopers. A lot of the same principles apply. it is just that Star Wars is suppose to be futuristic instead of being set in ancient earth. Smile. dark wrote: > As I said Tom, I certainly see the logic of the online approach, I > just hope it can be kept single player the way Sryth originally was > intended to be. > > I would however love to see a scifi rp game giving you a hole galaxy > to explore with different planets, quests separately on the various > planets, flying a spaceship etc. Pluss, you have infinite expantion, > especially if you made your universe similar to the Starwars or Dune > universe with different amounts of technology found on different > worlds, ---- you could have standard dungeon crawling with swords on > one world, and high tech robot developement elsewhere. > > Just my thoughts. > > Beware the Grue! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
