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1/23/2004
I made some pretty decent progress this week on Episode 6. I haven't had as much time as I normally do as of late, but I'm keeping up a pretty good pace.
I noticed that some people are talking about an online plunge and maybe a MMORPG for The Way. I've always wanted to do some network programming so I actually did code the framework for an online plunge game back in December. Iamtheverb helped me test it out and it played pretty smooth. It's in a pretty raw form right now though. There are no Blade Arts or Link Attacks and I haven't set up a PHP page to keep track of hosted games, stats, etc. Network programming is probably the most difficult type of programming I've ever done so it's been a good learning experience thus far. Hopefully I'll get more done in the future as I further develop my programming skills.
Jaa, mata
Lun
Problem with an Online Plunge system is that the Plunge was complimented by generic combat (to include notch items)
I'd say if you wanted to make the Plunge online, you would have to include nearly every aspect of the Way's gameplay (Not complaining, however. That would rule)
And of course, make the Way very very large but linear.
Well, thats what I was thinking about. I am really not much of a plunge fan, but The Way Online would just own. I would play in the enforced RP servers for hundreads of hours and mabye get my charicter into one of the games
P.S. Auras are fun.
They wouldn't have to include every aspect of the Way. (I agree though. That would be like God visited Earth and gave me access to heaven while I was still alive)
People would start off with crappy stats and the p;lunges would give more CTP and extra notches than usual. Dwonside: Boring after a while
If you made the Way dynamic and ever changing (constantly adding new maps...and deleting olds ones), it would keep the game very interesting. Of course, that would be unbeleivably hard.
Plays who lag behind get teleported further along the Way...
>_> And of course, you may travel on the lower way (if you can survive it)
No, I think I'd have a lot of fun with it
Doing that would be insane... I don't think you can constantly have maps being made and constantly delete maps, you'd need a huge team of developers to put in that much work. Especially if it were less linear (more areas and forking paths). It's a nice dream, though... Although we can see that the Way's movement isn't all THAT fast anyway, it would still be difficult to make and difficult to implement - Lun alone can't create a MMORPG..
to the maps deleting/creating thing, I personally don't believe the mists exist, but we'll just have to watch and wait. Other than that, sections of the way could be created procedurally ( as in not by mappers but by math going on in the program - don't give me that look, it's quite possible, very likely already demonstrated).
I think, really, that it would be retarded to release The Way Online before the series is finished. However, due to the longness of making games (even pros take 1 1/2 to 4 years with this genra), if this is going to happen at all we're gonna have to start thinking, mabye even working on it now. And yes, Lun cannot do it himself. That is why we have to help. In fact, I'm not even sure he was serious about a The Way Online, but if we are, mabye it could happen. What I ment by that is that Lun would probably like it to happen, but dosn't believe it could happen. So, it's really up to us wether it could happen or not. Unil Lun expresses his opinion on this whole thing, read programming and graphics tutorials, and wait. Seriously guys, wether or not there ever is a Way Online depends entirely on how many of us help and how much we help with it. There my writing teacher, if that is'nt a call to action then I don't know what is!
Greatchickenman wrote:I'm up for any type of female at least once.
Ah, my current state of existance is hard to define. I'm being basically swarmed with homework and assignments that i haven't really paid much attention online.Escreon wrote:...did Spaceboy die while I was away from the forums? He was working on the plunge game, and he'd made his early alpha (which couldn't be downloaded because of a crappy server, heh.)
Greatchickenman wrote:I'm up for any type of female at least once.
EmperorJeramyu wrote:RM2K can't do network play. And if you've ever looked at the code for the plunge, making order out of it would be nigh-impossible without profound effor of some sort.
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