MMO Progress
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It's been a while since I took time to write. There's a lot going
on at work and the amount of free time I get just seems to get
smaller and smaller. Or maybe it's just that time goes by much
faster when we're having fun? Probably! For the last few weeks I've
been working on a little mmo. I'm not sure why I got started doing
it, but all I know is that I made good progress. It's the first
time I'm writing a game, and it's definitely a journey. There's a
lot to think about, and it's hard to not get lost in little
details. It's also very rewarding to build a little world. So hey,
let me tell you about how that little game is going.
=> /game_1.png
We start in an outpost. There's not much currently there except for
fire crackling and a person named Martin. We can speak to him,
well, sort of. He understands if we say "hi" or "help". In that
outpost, there's a shop and a shopkeeper we can buy and sell items
to. More importantly, there's a door to go out.
=> /game_2.png
This game won't be set in the Midnight/Nightfall City universe. The
types of mmo I enjoy are medieval/sword and shield type of games,
which wouldn't fit. While there's not much done around the story
yet, that's what the outside of the outpost looks like! As you can
see, there are trees that you can cut, there are fish that you can
fish.
=> /game_3.png
Yes, there are even opossums! Oh and cows too. Cows drop leather
hide that we can use to craft leather armor, which can be very
useful when taking a tour to the Thief's lair...
=> /game_4.png
Thiefs are bad people, so we can go there and fight them. I'd
suggest getting some xp from killing cows and opossum first,
because they can hurt quite a lot. Diving in their lair, there are
even stronger Thiefs, the Rogues.
=> /game_5.png
They have an axe that's quite powerful. There is a chance they drop
it when you kill them. Once you have it, you can also use it to cut
trees and get logs. With the logs and a match, you can light a fire
that's useful for you to cook food and regain some health.
As you progress into the lair, you'll find a mining area and
miners. You can get a pickaxe by killing them which allows you to
mine iron. Your Gathering level needs to be a little advanced to
get a better chance at successfully mining it. Iron lets you build
powerful armor and weapon.
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In terms of skills, there are currently three: Combat, Gathering
and Crafting. Combat gives you health, make you hit harder and
reduce damage inflicted by others. Gathering makes you more likely
to collect items like wood, fish and ore. Crafting increase your
chance of creating a fire, armor and weapon. At the moment, all
skills are capped at 40.
Of course, things are more fun when you play with other people.
It's possible to chat and to fight other players. While in game,
it's possible to signup and claim a username. That allows all your
progress to be saved automatically
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There we go! And while there's a infinite amount of things that I
could add, I think I might just drop a link here shortly, if you
are interested to test it with me. I'm sure there are various bugs
around (hopefully not much).
Hope you enjoyed reading this and aren't too underwhelmed with my
very basic art skills ;)
