We’ve covered some incredibly important aspects of your gaming environment - from visual stimulus, and the sounds that pull your travelers deeper into your game, to the stories that inspire and the game mechanics that help shape your players’ characters. However, at the end of the day there is one aspect that will bring everything [...]
An incredibly important step in your quest to develop your own game is deciding on (and finding) the appropriate game engine for your online game. Not only do you have to consider the features you’d like to have available in an engine such as shading, physics, animation, artificial intelligence, texturing, renderings, terrain etc., but you’ll [...]
And in that case, what creates a good game?
In an effort to figure out just what exactly draws people into a game I’ve done a lot of reading online about online RPGs, MMOs, etc to hopefully impact Ashianae’s Journey in a positive way. There is an incredible article at Gamesutra.com called “Rethinking the MMO” which [...]