The Forum RPG is released for play testing

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Started by Legend, Jan 05, 2016, 07:37 PM

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Legend

"Crafting" could be used for everything.

Game map is filled with resource "wells." These are all natural resources like fresh water, ocean water, sand, dirt, iron ore, silver ore, wood, forest wildlife, etc. The wells can be created or destroyed depending on their type. The main thing is that they are the only source of new materials in the digital world.

Resources can then be exctracted from wells. Exctracting resources is done using a universal crafting system.

Input resources+working resources=output resources. So (river + bucket) + human=water filled bucket.

The main goal is to create a self sustaining world where every thing is simulated. It's not just that a city produces 100,000 gold coins every year, but that thousands of npcs have worked together to keep an economy running that produced said gold.


By "bite sized," I mean that everything is granular and important. 100 humans would be a large city in this world. If a player (not something I care about at this stage) wanted to impact the world they could do it as an individual.


Essentially the world could start by just placing a couple humans and letting them expand out.