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2012
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Elder Game: Designing Project: Gorgon’s combat sounds
Created page with "[ This guest post is by Conor Brace, the sound/music expert for Project: Gorgon. Thanks, Conor! ] Designing Project: Gorgon’s combat sounds When Eric and I started discussi..."
Elder Game: Pre-Alpha Update: Tech notes, update notes, ramblings
Created page with "Tech: Holding Up Well! The pre-alpha is going well. We’re averaging about 3 people online at a time, which doesn’t sound like a lot, but given that it’s a limited-acces..."
Elder Game: Kickstarter: The Missing FAQ
Created page with "(Figured I’d write this up while it was still fresh in my head…) If you’re doing a Kickstarter project, you’re going to run into weird issues, and none of them are go..."
Elder Game: Gorgon Chat Logs, pt 1
Created page with "[You would not believe how much I've been sleeping this week. I'm still officially on vacation until next week, when I have to catch up on all the stuff that's been delayed a..."
Elder Game: Gorgon Chat Logs, pt 2, and Status Update
Created page with "Player 1> is there any way to link items in chat? Player 2> not yet... and i dont know if the unity engine is able to do that It surprised me how often this idea came up —..."
Elder Game: Prealpha 3′s Death Penalties
Created page with "As I mentioned earlier, I want to experiment with variable death penalties, where players can choose how punitive they want it to be. This lets players who want a “scarier..."
Elder Game: Death Penalties, Quick Follow-up
Created page with "Thanks for all the death-penalty feedback from the last post! I’ve decided to heed a couple of suggestions: : -I’m removing the XP rewards, so now there’s no tangible b..."
Elder Game: Taunting, Mentalism, and Variety
Created page with "Still working on what I’ve been working on… lots of stumbling blocks this week that made me glad I’m bald so I don’t pull out my hair in frustration. But these things..."
Elder Game: AC2 First Impressions
Created page with "I spent a fair number of hours in the beta of Asheron’s Call 2 tonight, and here are my initial thoughts (both good and bad): : -The world graphics have held up very well...."
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Elder Game: Twitter Updates
Created page with "Twitter Account: I’ve started tweeting each day about the development process on twitter @GorgonMMO. Mostly I post minutia and useless factoids, but if you’re reading Twit..."
Elder Game: Toward more interesting deaths
Created page with "New Penalties I’m still mulling the death penalty in Project Gorgon. I’m happy with where we left the Hardcore Penalty discussed earlier, but I’m not happy with the nor..."
Elder Game: Addendum: Matt’s Idea
Created page with "On the last blog post, commenter Matt proposed a fairly clever hybrid solution to the death-loot problem that should work well. It uses the “invisible bag” plan, with a cl..."
Elder Game: Progress Toward Pre-Alpha 3
Created page with "Artwork Inbound Just a quick update about where things are at. The Legends of Etherell guys are cranking out awesome character artwork for Project: Gorgon. As I mentioned a w..."
Elder Game: Milk, Vaults & Ulfoi
Created page with "Player-to-Player Interactions I’ve been cruising along with infrastructure features, hoping to get a fair number of them in place so that the LoE team can reuse my server t..."
Elder Game: Quote of the Day: WTF
Created page with "Eric: The server is e-mailing me the message “WTF”. Sandra: Ahh … I presume you programmed it to do that? Eric: I presume so too. Category:Game BlogsCategory:El..."
Elder Game: Vendors!
Created page with "There’s a million ways that vendors could work. After days of playing around with them, I feel like I’ve tried all million permutations. I am well and truly sick of thinki..."
Elder Game: More Stuff Happening
Created page with "Fire Magic Spells! It turns out that almost all the spells in the Fire Magic school were broken in pre-alpha 2. (For instance, the spell that makes monsters take extra fire d..."
Elder Game: Loot progress
Created page with "I’m not dead! Just … didn’t really have much to talk about for a bit there. I’m months behind my target date for pre-alpha 3, but I’m now at the point where I could..."
Elder Game: Quote of the Day: A Cavalcade of Nightmares
Created page with "Eric, as he works on integrating the new character art: “Where’s his head? Oh, down there.” 15 minutes later: “Now his face is gone.” 30 minutes later: “Oh God,..."
Elder Game: ETA
Created page with "Some unexpected delays! I estimate the servers will be online at 8pm Eastern time (about 2.5 hours from now). If you were waiting, sorry! Category:Game BlogsCategory:E..."
Elder Game: Pre-Alpha 3 server is live!
Created page with "The server is finally live! Visit projectgorgon.com to log in. Your old characters should still work, if you had any, but I haven’t tested that very well so if you have prob..."
Elder Game: 4:30am Update
Created page with "As I write this it’s 4:30am, that unpleasant time of night when you can’t predict whether the Burger King drive through is going to sell you a Whopper Meal or a Croissanwi..."
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2013
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Elder Game: Grab Bag Update: Web Player, Skill Swapping, Languages
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Elder Game: The flying animal fiasco
Created page with "Thought I’d do a short post about an amusing bug. It’s actually been happening occasionally for a while, but after a recent update it became pretty much 100% of the time:..."
Elder Game: What is Lag?
Created page with "I get a few reports of “lag”, and while I really appreciate the reports, just hearing about lag by itself isn’t enough to diagnose a problem, because there’s a lot of..."
Elder Game: Try the new stand-alone clients
Created page with "We now have stand-alone game clients ready for testing! These should give you better frame-rates in general. If you’re up for testing, please give them a whirl: Windows: D..."
Elder Game: Gorgon's Archery System
Created page with "The next combat skill will be archery, and I wanted to talk about how it’s going to work. Well, I’m still coding it right now — in fact I’m taking a break to write thi..."
Elder Game: Notes During A Slow Upload
Created page with "ince I don’t have my own operations team, I’ve had to build my own ops scripts and tools. I’ve just made some changes to them to accommodate new hardware, so now I have..."
Elder Game: June Status Report
Created page with "Here’s a bunch of info and design snippets that I’ve never gotten around to mentioning. Rebalancing Efforts: I’ve been working on fixing tons of bugs and data errors re..."
Elder Game: Pet Classes in MMOs
Created page with "It’s hard to balance pet classes in MMOs because of competing desires between different kinds of players, along with contentious power variations. So what I’m doing… wel..."
Elder Game: Falling through the ground
Created page with "We’ve had a lot of complaints of “falling through the ground” the past few weeks, and I finally decided to find a solution to that problem. It’ll be in the next update..."
Elder Game: August Update Still In Progress
Created page with "Just wanted to drop a note in case you don’t follow the twitter feed. The next update is delayed, and there hasn’t been an update for a couple of weeks, but things are def..."
Elder Game: MMOs as Self-Sustaining Small Businesses
Created page with "[This blog post isn't related to Project: Gorgon per se.] I wanted to take a second to answer an email I got. I tried to reply to the email, but it bounced! So here it is as..."
Elder Game: Skill Costs and NPC Variables
Created page with "[ I'm not doing a good job of making time to blog about the design. It takes a lot of time to blog, mostly in the editing. But right now I just want to give you some insight i..."
Elder Game: NPC Systems and Kickstarter Delays
Created page with "More quick and dirty design notes! NPC Systems Enhancements – Mood So far, NPCs have only one major variable when it comes to interacting with you: their Favor Level. This..."
Elder Game: Racial Game Systems
Created page with "[Still finding it hard to make time to blog, but despite the silence, improvements are happening at a pretty brisk pace. Speaking of which, Aaron from the LoE team (the guys d..."
Elder Game: November arrives! Notes about stuff
Created page with "Well that was a quick month… October went by a lot faster than I expected! But we got quite a lot done, and laid the groundwork for a pretty huge November. Here’s what’s..."
Elder Game: Cheesemaking
Created page with "I’ve been working on fleshing out Gorgon’s crafting. Originally (like, years ago now!) I’d planned out hundreds of different skills. They made a really cool chart. (I li..."
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