{"id":152,"date":"2008-05-11T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-05-11T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T22:41:11","slug":"mmorpg-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/05\/11\/mmorpg-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"MMORPG revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mmorpg2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-153\" title=\"MMORPG Dev screenshot 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mmorpg2-300x234.png\" alt=\"MMORPG Dev screenshot 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mmorpg2-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mmorpg2.png 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Okay, I&#8217;ll confess that I&#8217;ve been a little intentionally misleading for the last week.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>The MMORPG game I&#8217;m working on isn&#8217;t an MMORPG;\u00a0 it&#8217;s a single-player game about MMORPGs.\u00a0 The player takes on the persona of the new owner of a software company with an unpopular MMORPG, and it&#8217;s up to the player to bring them back into profitability.<\/p>\n<p>The player does this by adjusting the zoning of the map, by adjusting the player classes available, placing key quests, adjusting subscription costs, hiring and firing programmers\/designers\/artists, watching the forum buzz and news coverage about the game and company, etc.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the very basic MMORPG mechanics are implemented;\u00a0 the player can set up zoning, simulated players log in to the game, fight monsters, and pick up and complete minor quests.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping that by the end of tomorrow, I&#8217;ll have simulated players accepting key quests, and then can move on to tuning how all the various parameters and systems interact with each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;ll confess that I&#8217;ve been a little intentionally misleading for the last week.\u00a0 :) The MMORPG game I&#8217;m working on isn&#8217;t an MMORPG;\u00a0 it&#8217;s a single-player game about MMORPGs.\u00a0 The player takes on the persona of the new owner of a software company with an unpopular MMORPG, and it&#8217;s up to the player to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-2s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}