User contributions for BetaNotus

27 January 2018

• 19:5219:52, 27 January 2018 diff hist +13,663 N Elder Game: More on Classed vs. Unclassed Games Created page with "I’ve read a lot of really great posts as a result of my hornets-nest stirring post about how classes are better than unclassed games. Some rebuttals have been pretty smart a..."
• 19:5019:50, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,228 N Elder Game: Graphical Upgrades Are Dangerous Created page with "You are an older MMO. You don’t look sexy anymore. Your players think a graphical upgrade would help you recruit new players. They tell you how embarrassed they are to be s..."
• 19:4919:49, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,171 N Elder Game: Retention and Rebound Created page with "Rage-Quit vs. Yawn-Quit Long ago, when my friends and I were playing EverQuest, one of our party members decided to do some soloing after everybody else had gone to bed. He f..."
• 19:4919:49, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,335 N Elder Game: Who’s In Charge of Quality? Created page with "Who gets to say when an MMO patch is ‘done’? Does QA answer to the live producer? Can QA stop the launch of a patch or does the producer alone have that responsibility? E..."
• 19:4819:48, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,474 N Elder Game: Proximity Breeds Endearment Created page with "Here’s another example of where our brains trick us into enjoying things in spite of ourselves. I was reading a book of folk tales and I got to the story of The Snow Queen...."
• 19:4819:48, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,617 N Elder Game: “The Dev Team” Footprint Created page with "Sanya Weathers at Eating Bees posted last month about “Things That Make Me /Facepalm When I See Them From Moderators“. You should read and embrace the post in its entirel..."
• 19:4619:46, 27 January 2018 diff hist +9,569 N Elder Game: The Griefer With The Coin Bag Created page with "Got back from GDC week and still trying to get back into the swing of things… and here comes a funny story straight from GDC! Go ahead and read it, it’s pretty funny. (Or..."
• 19:4419:44, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,336 N Elder Game: Evolving Quests Created page with "Side-quests are a classic game mechanic, as ancient as roleplaying. When playing D&D with friends, we’ll stumble upon a traveler being mauled by a bear and we’ll take swif..."
• 19:4419:44, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,899 N Elder Game: You Can’t Bolster Your Newbie Hose With Self-Indulgence Created page with "The latest numbers are in for World of Warcraft, and as of March 1st they were down 600k subscribers. That would ruin any other subscription MMO on this continent, but for the..."
• 19:4219:42, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,911 N Elder Game: Punditry is dumb. Switching to developer mode! First mention of Gorgon (I think)
• 19:4019:40, 27 January 2018 diff hist +14,234 N Elder Game: World vs. Game, Emergent Gameplay, and the Fun Loop Created page with "[This is part of a discussion of my indie MMO, codenamed "Gorgon" for no particular reason. This week is about some of the earliest questions you have to ask before you begin..."
• 19:3919:39, 27 January 2018 diff hist +15,682 N Elder Game: Permanent Character Choices in a Classless Game (or, “Werewolves!”) Created page with "Most modern MMOs require the player to make very few permanent choices. Permanent choices cause stress, especially in games where players feel they need to make “the right c..."
• 19:3719:37, 27 January 2018 diff hist +6,480 N Elder Game: Alpha Art Woes: Sex-Crazed Elves Created page with "[I didn't finish the blog post that was supposed to go up today, so here's some gripes about temporary art problems in the MMO I'm developing.] A lot of the art in my game ne..."
• 19:3619:36, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,875 N Elder Game: We Can’t Have Nice Things (They Keep Decaying) Created page with "[This article is about my upcoming 3D fantasy MMO code-named "Project Gorgon."] One of the many design elements I haven’t fully figured out yet is item decay. This is a tou..."
• 19:3519:35, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,735 N Elder Game: Item Decay Redux Created page with "There’s been some great replies to my last post, and I want to thank you for the ideas. I’m still sifting through them and figuring out what I can realistically make work,..."
• 19:3419:34, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,305 N Elder Game: Go Big or Go Home Created page with "“Go Big or Go Home.” I hate this phrase. But this comic made me realize it’s less intimidating than it sounds. Of course you can just go home! You don’t have to fight..."
• 19:3419:34, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,849 N Elder Game: Notes From The Coding Pit Created page with "[This week I haven't done any design philosophizing... I've been busy coding game systems for the MMO, so I haven't gotten a chance to write anything too clever. These are jus..."
• 19:3319:33, 27 January 2018 diff hist +11,375 N Elder Game: NPCs as Systems Nexus Created page with "My plans for NPCs have been refined a bit. At first, what I envisioned sounds similar to the “Storybricks system” recently announced by Namaste. I’ve abandoned that, now..."
• 19:3019:30, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,944 m Developers →2011
• 18:5718:57, 27 January 2018 diff hist +29 m MediaWiki:Vector.css No edit summary
• 18:5618:56, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4 m Game updates/2018-01-27 →UI improvements: current
• 18:5618:56, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,652 N Game updates/2018-01-27 Added patch notes
• 03:0303:03, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,836 N Elder Game: Creating a backstory for the game Created page with "I had intended to write about combat this week but it turns out that all my writing time is being taken up by the game itself, so I’ll keep this really brief! Basically, my..."
• 03:0203:02, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,919 N Elder Game: Thinking about Gorgon Combat Created page with "[This post is about Project Gorgon, an indie MMO in development.] Pop quiz time: say you have two attacks that do the same damage, but one hits a single target and the other..."
• 03:0103:01, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,989 N Elder Game: The Stamina Bar Created page with "[I'm not working on the game this week, instead I'm doubling up on my other work so I can spend a full week on the game next week. But I've had one little anecdote bubbling ar..."
• 03:0003:00, 27 January 2018 diff hist +13,990 N Elder Game: A Psychologist, a Fire Mage, and a Dickweed Walk Into a Bar… Created page with "[This is about Project Gorgon, a fantasy MMO I am making. It is an insanely difficult project and easily the most ambitious undertaking I have ever made. Join me, won't you, a..."
• 02:5802:58, 27 January 2018 diff hist +571 N Elder Game: the reason you write clean code Created page with "(02:26:08) Eric Heimburg: the reason you write clean code isn’t to be awesome, it’s so that you can spend that cleanliness at the proper moment of desperation. Like at the..."
• 02:5802:58, 27 January 2018 diff hist +437 N Elder Game: The first exploiter? Created page with "No real post this week — I just had a very productive week of development but now I have to switch gears to non-MMO stuff for a week… will be back to the MMO next week! I..."
• 02:5702:57, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2 m Elder Game: Minimizing Tedium: Not Always Straightforward No edit summary
• 02:5702:57, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,417 N Elder Game: Minimizing Tedium: Not Always Straightforward Created page with "A couple weeks back I talked about how you can pick two combat roles at once in my MMO, and switch them out in town. A comment from David Grundy: ''Interesting on the role sw..."
• 02:5602:56, 27 January 2018 diff hist −1,719 Elder Game: Project Gorgon Screenshot Diary No edit summary
• 02:5602:56, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,130 N Elder Game: Project Gorgon Screenshot Diary Created page with "(Apparently if you don’t have a Google+ account those pictures can’t be seen? What the heck is up with that?! Guess I’ll do it the old fashioned way… click to enlarge..."
• 02:5402:54, 27 January 2018 diff hist +6,628 N Elder Game: Early prep for newbies Created page with "Getting people started in an MMO is the hardest part. Their first hour has to be informative but also incredibly entertaining, and it has to set expectations for the entire ga..."
• 02:5302:53, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,172 N Elder Game: Pot-Luck Dinners and Dungeon Sushi Created page with "I’m working on some very simple content for the pre-alpha build. Today I added potatoes and onions for the Gardening skill. Now I’m taking a quick break before diving into..."
• 02:5102:51, 27 January 2018 diff hist +8,631 N Elder Game: Words of Power Created page with "[This post is about 'Project Gorgon', an MMO in development.] I needed something for the Lore skill to do. It’s a prerequisite skill (meaning lots of skills will require it..."
• 02:5102:51, 27 January 2018 diff hist +5,139 N Elder Game: Delays, Thoughts about Launches, and Some Icons Created page with "My regular job — the one I’ve been doing half-time — has had a crisis and I’ve had to switch back to doing it full time while we deal with an emergency. This will prob..."
• 02:4902:49, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,121 m Developers →2011
• 02:4302:43, 27 January 2018 diff hist +75 N Category:Elder Game Blog Created page with "The blog posts listed in this category were once found at www.eldergame.com"
• 02:4002:40, 27 January 2018 diff hist +3,509 Elder Game: Project Gorgon’s Death Penalty No edit summary
• 02:3702:37, 27 January 2018 diff hist +10,925 N Elder Game: Back to work! Pre-Alpha Combat Skills Created page with "I am finally getting back to work on Project Gorgon, and after a few days of “Oh my god this is a full-sized MMO what the hell is wrong with me” terror, I got back into th..."
• 02:3602:36, 27 January 2018 diff hist +6,144 N Elder Game: Field Autopsies, and Man I’m Slow Created page with "I’m still slogging through the code. Not going as fast as I wanted — there’s been lots of interruptions, but also I’ve just had a hard time drilling through the rest o..."
• 02:3602:36, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,596 N Elder Game: Features In, Features Out Created page with "[This is a status update about an indie fantasy MMO in progress, code-named "Gorgon".] Calligraphy Is Implemented Yesterday I sat down to implement Calligraphy, a skill that..."
• 02:3502:35, 27 January 2018 diff hist +2,516 N Elder Game: Howl Sound Effect Created page with "Quick question: does anybody know where I can buy a wolf-howl sound effect that can be used in commercial applications? There are some on soundrangers.com and I’ll use those..."
• 02:3502:35, 27 January 2018 diff hist +6,129 N Elder Game: Complexity and Group Combat Created page with "Right now I’m just bug-fixing the pre-alpha, which is torturous and tedious, so I won’t blog about that. Instead let me talk a bit about types of gameplay complexity. Goo..."
• 02:3302:33, 27 January 2018 diff hist +4,930 N Elder Game: What’s my target audience? Created page with "[This is the end of day #4 of TORTUROUS DEBUGGING. I'm just trying to get the game stable and playable on a real internet connection (instead of local LAN). I've tracked down..."
• 02:3302:33, 27 January 2018 diff hist +890 N Elder Game: Quick Test of Pre-Alpha 0.1 Completed Created page with "EDIT: my HUGE thanks to the dozen people who were able to hop in (with no notice) and help test the very early pre-alpha! I’ve taken the server down now to work on the many,..."
• 02:3302:33, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,487 N Elder Game: Easy Player-Made Content Created page with "[I'm still working on bugs, polish, and a bit more content for the next playable pre-alpha. I just got the camera controls fixed! I also added sliders and settings so people c..."
• 02:3002:30, 27 January 2018 diff hist +7,487 N Elder Game: Project Gorgon’s Death Penalty Created page with "[I'm still working on bugs, polish, and a bit more content for the next playable pre-alpha. I just got the camera controls fixed! I also added sliders and settings so people c..."
• 02:2902:29, 27 January 2018 diff hist +1,385 N Elder Game: Sign Up For Pre-Alpha/Alpha/Beta Created page with "I realized that if I just publicly announce the pre-alpha login URL here, then I won’t be able to control how many people are in it. I need to let people in slowly enough th..."
• 02:2802:28, 27 January 2018 diff hist +883 Developers →2012