It occurs to me that before I can talk meaningfully about any of the initial quest lines in Atma, I should give a bit of background involving the layout of the game’s world. There are seven capitals scattered around the map in which most of Atma’s character interactions take place. Due to the flow of [...]
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Places to go
Sunday, December 6th, 2009Revised Office Hours, Volume II
Saturday, November 28th, 2009It should be immediately and painfully obvious to anybody checking up on this blog that I have not adhered to my aforementioned weekend posting schedule, this being the case for a bit over a month now. I don’t really have any excuses, aside from those I’ve already summarized in Volume I of this “series”: it’s [...]
Basic Instinct
Sunday, October 18th, 2009As promised, I’m here today to talk about the Instinct system that I glossed over at the end of yesterday’s post. Before I get into the nitty-gritty of exactly what the system does, I feel it’s beneficial to give a bit of background for comparison, as the final system (at least as far as I’ve [...]
Dancing with the details
Saturday, October 17th, 2009Emergence, the concept of several small systems interacting to form a complex system that is “larger than the sum of its parts” is something we’ve discussed briefly before, but which I’d like to bring up for discussion once again, today. I find emergence to be one of the most fundamental elements of game design theory; [...]
The many faces of battle
Sunday, October 11th, 2009There’s one thing (well, there are several, but one which I’ll talk about right now) that’s always bothered me a good deal about most MMO combat systems, which is that character position and movement are only very rarely an influential factor. There are a few games that do some interesting things: Aion takes into account [...]