Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
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Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#2I dont know who Ralph Koster is or why this announcement deserves the front page, but I have to say the art direction is surprisingly dull: there are plenty of indie games made with just free asset packs that have more personality than this…
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#3I'm surprised the webpage and FAQ doesn't answer the single most obvious question: does this support player housing?
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#4I'm surprised the webpage and FAQ doesn't answer the single most obvious question: does this support player housing?
One of the tweets from official account said that it does.
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#5I dont know who Ralph Koster is or why this announcement deserves the front page, but I have to say the art direction is surprisingly dull: there are plenty of indie games made with just free asset packs that have more personality than this…
The lighting, textures on the characters has a weird feel and lighting on them.
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#6I dont know who Ralph Koster is or why this announcement deserves the front page, but I have to say the art direction is surprisingly dull: there are plenty of indie games made with just free asset packs that have more personality than this…
Raph is a prominent game designer, one of the designers of Ultima Online and writes a lot about game design. This is interesting at least because people have high hopes that he will build another good systemic sandbox MMO.
I agree though that this looks surprisingly dull and also that the trailer doesn’t do a great job selling the systems side of things either.
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#7I dont know who Ralph Koster is or why this announcement deserves the front page, but I have to say the art direction is surprisingly dull: there are plenty of indie games made with just free asset packs that have more personality than this…
He did a Q&A on MMORPG subreddit
"creator of Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies"
https://old.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/1dqodoo/im_raph_kos...
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#8I'm surprised the webpage and FAQ doesn't answer the single most obvious question: does this support player housing?
The trailer shows some house building in it.
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#9Logo looks kind of Star Trek. So does the ?cat? creature. The early animated show I guess? Is Stars Reach a unique enough name though? I'm getting results with and without the apostrophe.
Re: Stars Reach – new social sandbox MMO by Raph Koster announced
#10I dont know who Ralph Koster is or why this announcement deserves the front page, but I have to say the art direction is surprisingly dull: there are plenty of indie games made with just free asset packs that have more personality than this…
Raph is a prominent game designer, one of the designers of Ultima Online and writes a lot about game design. This is interesting at least because people have high hopes that he will build another good systemic sandbox MMO. I agree though that this looks surprisingly dull and also that the trailer doesn’t do a great job selling the systems side of things either.
Is there a better resource that talks about the systems side of things? It looks like there might be something interesting there but it's too opaque to figure out what that might be
The things I could tease out:
* Fully modifiable worlds
* "living worlds", or at least grass grows and other ecosystem-y things
* No partitioning of player base, all in same realm