Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you really care, the MUD Wiki on Fandom , started in the wake of the great Wikipedia purge of MUD content, has you covered. All the content in the game was just data in fields. On MOOs and LPMuds, you had a lower barrier for adding features, but you also had a higher barrier for “just making content.”

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thanks to a crazy head engineer with a god complex, ten thousand players are now playing an ultra-realistic fantasy game in a virtual world with real-world stakes. I believe that Skyrim is a mix of hand-crafted and procedurally (or at least tools-generated) content, and it could be a pretty fair comparison. Cutscenes in an MMO?

Art 52

Art Games Fighting Technology 52

Keith Burgun

JULY 29, 2022

So what we end up with, over time, is a “tradition”, or traditions within a blanket term like “RPG” There are so-called “ARPGs” like Diablo, JRPGs like Final Fantasy, CRPGs like Ultima, tactical RPGs like Fire Emblem, and so on. Over the years, I have loved games in all of these categories.

Fantasy 52

Fantasy AAA Concepts Cutscenes 52

Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Or at worst, they are leftover consequences of the design and they had to fudge some random content for it. Wisely, the game doesn't really explain invasion conditions, and the uncertainty is a lot more interesting (until it isn't). Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. TUTORIAL The tutorial happens across 3 in-game loops.

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