If you don't call me crazy then you are! Some years ago I've been a game developer (NDS, PC, XBOX 360) but now I earn my bucks with web development like most of us I guess? I used NodeJS for middleware, small websites and applications within service-environments and it always proofed to be blazing fast.
But now comes the time to make a game again. A real huge thing. An I mean huge ;) Maybe some of you know what I mean when I say "Shores of Hazeron". It's a mixture between (MMO)RPG, simulation and strategy within a whole galaxy that is simulated on the server side. To make a short version of my idea: The game simulates an entire dwarf-galaxy (about 8000 light years) where we put like 5 alien races. The player has a lot of crafting abilities, can build houses, invent technology, etc. to finally build a rocket flying to the moon(s) orbiting his home world. The player's race might colonize it's solar system and head for intergalactic travelling and maybe meet one of the other races...and then...phew phew phew. ;) You might expect a game design document, but I'm working as a product manager within an agile team, and I'd say, as long as I don't need to sell something to a publisher, I can keep it agile from the idea to the implementation. Technically there are some hard rocks to break. Rendering a galaxy from the thousands of lightyears down to the insects on a little plant is a very tough task. Using procedural algorithms is the way to go (using a highly modified version of a noise algorithm). And this technique is pretty much 1984 - implemented in the game Elite. But procedural algorithms might also be a problem within NodeJS because of blocking? It would also be very interesting to have a RESTful interface for the client side. A blazing fast storage system is also needed. I wanted to use Redis for this. But maybe there is something more JS-Like? I know there are some demos around there with similar ideas (like the infinity space game). But it's not exactly what I want, because I really never care about graphics, but about game play. And I want to make a game where the player is pretty free, never bored and where the game changes according to the actions of its players. I'd like to hear your suggestions. (But please don't tell me that it will be hard or impossible - it never is impossible, but always hard, I know that :-D) Maybe you might even like to join me and support the game with your ideas and/or your coding abilities. We'd open up a forum or something for communication and project management maybe. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
