I'm two posts behind. Things are getting harder and harder to post about. I'm not playing many video games these days, and when I do, they are the same old game. Obviously I am not making the posts I originally thought I would, the ones about my quest to not suck at street fighter, but since I'm not playing, I'm not getting better, nobody likes the my posts about really heavy street fighter talk. Pretend I whined some more here.
Anyway, I mentioned a video game I wanted to make in another post.
It's going to be an RPG set in a steam punk world. But of course there is also magic. In the game, you control a character, whose name I haven't figured out yet. She becomes an orphan in the beginning of the game and moves to the city. There, she encounters the four factions that the story revolves around. There is the techno-mages, the government, the robokin and the sky pirates. The sky pirates and the government are directly opposed to each other, where the techno-mages and the robokin don't get along. The relationships between any group and another who isn't their direct enemy is less well defined. They don't trust each other, but work together when needed.
The interesting part of this game is that events are time sensitive. The player can do whatever they want to, but don't expect to go off into the woods for days on end and expect the state of the city to be the same as you left it. The four factions will being fighting against each other and all that, so things change. This system would require a massive amount of content to pull off, but would be pretty awesome in the end.
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I'm thinking of what other games do the persistence/real time world events like what you are talking about. I guess the main one is Myst, where something new is always happening. It's always a good hook to get people to keep playing. I think your game idea is a good one. If you are talking about a computer game vs. MMO, then you might not need as much content as it might seem at first, seeing as you can just have the illusion of things going on around you with some clever programming tricks.
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