April fools joke?
OpenMW becomes a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs
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#12Is there something similar to this for making 2D side scrolling RPGs?
RPG Maker? https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/
Re: OpenMW becomes a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs
#13April fools joke?
The leet version number suggests it.
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#14It’s a shame more games are going mobile. Seeing this project still kicking gives me great hope.
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#15I am amazed at the longevity of the Morrowind IP. I still get occasional waves of nostalgia going back to playing the game when I was young. This was before the internet made it trivial to find out everything there was to know about a game. Brb...installing...
I remember when my friend and I first installed it on the PC. We must have spent 20 minutes just admiring water that looked like water . Going back and seeing it now, it looks like nothing special at all, but for the time I remember it being a huge leap forward graphically.
I went back recently to morrowind, I shouldn't have. It looked like someone threw mud in my eyes. I got sad about it and started to install the HD textures but it felt forced and I had this feeling like the time I opened my Christmas presents early and had to fake being surprised about all my new socks and sweaters.
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#16It's a joke, but I sometimes honestly wonder why no one has made a game based on OpenMW. Then I remember that making a game engine is no longer the bottleneck, as Unity and Unreal are essentially free.
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#17It's a joke, but I sometimes honestly wonder why no one has made a game based on OpenMW. Then I remember that making a game engine is no longer the bottleneck, as Unity and Unreal are essentially free.
and Godot is actually free, but all of these are very general purpose, there is a lot of value in very specific engines for specific types of games, and we may see more of that in the future I think.
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#18It's a joke, but I sometimes honestly wonder why no one has made a game based on OpenMW. Then I remember that making a game engine is no longer the bottleneck, as Unity and Unreal are essentially free.
and Godot is actually free, but all of these are very general purpose, there is a lot of value in very specific engines for specific types of games, and we may see more of that in the future I think.
I don't know why you got downvoted dead. I think it's an interesting point. I don't know if you're right, but it was an interesting premise to think about.
Certainly people have for a long time licensed engines made available as a side effect of the creation of a certain type of game to build further on what's been accomished, or to cash in by making derivative games. For example all the shooters made with the Quake engines, which no one would call general purpose. There's a few examples of reused RPG engines (e.g. Infinity Engine) and RTS engines, too. There's also plenty of toolkits dedicated to adventure games and visual novels.
Arguing growth is possible is not outrageous.
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#19Does such a general-purpose engine for isometric RPGs actually exist yet, though?
I'm pretty far into a project to create a Typescript framework for turn and tile-based (think roguelikes) client/server games: https://github.com/chaos-framework. Mix of entity-component and event-driven design (inspired by Brian Bucklew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U03XXzcThGU and Thomas Biksup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGLJC5UY2o4, though looking now I'm surprised I landed on a similar but imo more robust event system as I was only looking at EC pattern at the time). Typescript means entity factories and their components can be fully written in the language rather than XML per the videos above, and people can for example distribute a package that is basically DnD5e or Pathfinder rulesets, custom world generators, or anything else to be plugged into a published game.
Typical Minecraft "infinite" world data structure, handles binding up event system to component listeners automatically, (will soon) handles serialization, listeners are async generators ala Redux Saga for neat inversion of control and advanced patterns as needed. It doesn't have any specific frontends or clients (APIs and react hooks+utils exist but not super advanced yet, and a small WebGL renderer + react component), it's more a collection of objects that recursively process state updates in response to a user input until it finishes (like a classic console roguelike), and produce a serialized stream of events clients of any kind can listen to, completely agnostic to how any client may choose to represent it, so you could easily make a DM interface vs an interface for players connected to the same server, but it's also not something like Unity that is an all-in-one engine that's ready to publish (unless a proper ecosystem gets fleshed out). It's been a joy to architect and program in, and excited to someday publish it and document it (I haven't updated the examples I've written for the new saga-based event system so it'll probably all be gibberish to an outsider still).
Not going to lie, my heart skipped a beat at the headline.. It's selfish but would hate for someone to publish something that covers a lot of the same ground. Sometimes I think to look around again and stop myself.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember when my friend and I first installed it on the PC. We must have spent 20 minutes just admiring water that looked like water . Going back and seeing it now, it looks like nothing special at all, but for the time I remember it being a huge leap forward graphically.
I went back recently to morrowind, I shouldn't have. It looked like someone threw mud in my eyes. I got sad about it and started to install the HD textures but it felt forced and I had this feeling like the time I opened my Christmas presents early and had to fake being surprised about all my new socks and sweaters.
I fell so hard for Morrowind and then Oblivion just wasn't engaging at all, felt like I never got anywhere, I certainly didn't get into any of the main quest like I would have liked.
But yeah the graphics are awful and enabling the expansions from day one causes you to suddenly be assassinated in the night when you are still a nobody. On a plus note if you survive and are determined you can use the paralytic effects of the assassin's daggers to win a really powerful sword from a depressed Orc, he wants to die a noble death in combat... Not sure getting paralyzed so that your opponent can drink gallons of Sujamma and smack you with Hulk strength into a wall counts as noble but hey we all have our quirks.
The addictive thing about Morrowind was clearly the stories we told ourselves. You knew the people who would get really hooked because they spent hours on that “what’s your name?” screen.