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Wishlist STARS REACH and its living world
Over the years, I’ve tried many ways of making living worlds. This video here explains how we are doing it on Stars Reach. Which you can now wishlist on Steam. The Living World of Stars Reach As you can see if you watch the video, we’re already pulling off something a bit unusual: modelling a world at MMO scale using cellular automata. What that means: we know the humidity, the temperature, the…
Mailbag: Parts of an MMO
Mailbag: Parts of an MMO
Hello Mr. Koster! I have a school project that requires the input of an expert like yourself. I know you usually don’t reply to students, but hopefully you’ll reply to me. I am currently working on the concept for a open-world MMO and wondering if you can help me out. I know your major works are Star Wars Galaxies and the Ultima series, but my game is still a MMO. It’s just more like DC Universe…
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I'm working on this project, and I need some feedback because I can't just keep bothering my bro Radmiral about it. So if you're willing to talk theoretical MMO design, hit me up. I'll return the favor.
Did Star Wars Galaxies Fail?
Did Star Wars Galaxies Fail?
Read the other posts in this series:
PvP and temporary enemy flagging
A Jedi Saga
SWG’s Dynamic World
Designing a Living Society, part one
Designing a Living Society, part two
This is the last post on SWG for, well, a while. I am sure there are plenty of other things to say and more questions that could be answered, but… it feels like a natural stopping point. I must say, the response to these…
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Designing a Living Society in SWG, part two
Designing a Living Society in SWG, part two
Last time, I talked about the basic skill and economic infrastructure that Star Wars Galaxies provided. Fundamentally, these were about equality. They made the different roles played by players have the same standing in the game. However, it’s still a game, after all — players are going to engage in radically different sorts of activities, probably some will be more fun than others, and nobody is…
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Designing a Living Society in SWG, part one
Designing a Living Society in SWG, part one
Once upon a time you could drop things on the ground. It’s one of the first things a baby does, one of the most human things to do. You pick something up, drop it somewhere else. You build piles. Piles turn into houses. They turn into furniture. They turn into gathering places, into churches, into seats of civilizations. Dropping stuff on the ground is pretty important to who we are.
In the last…
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Ten Years of World of Warcraft
Ten Years of World of Warcraft
Ten years of World of Warcraft. Well. So many thoughts.
WoW has always been a contradiction of sorts: not the pioneer, but the one that solidified the pattern. Not the experimenter, but the one that reaped the rewards. Not the innovator, but the one that was well-designed, built solidly, and made appealing. It was the MMO that took what has always been there, and delivered it in a package that…
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