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26 January 2018
Elder Game: Field Autopsies, and Man I’m Slow
Created page with "I’m still slogging through the code. Not going as fast as I wanted — there’s been lots of interruptions, but also I’ve just had a hard time drilling through the rest o..."
Elder Game: Features In, Features Out
Created page with "[This is a status update about an indie fantasy MMO in progress, code-named "Gorgon".] Calligraphy Is Implemented Yesterday I sat down to implement Calligraphy, a skill that..."
Elder Game: Howl Sound Effect
Created page with "Quick question: does anybody know where I can buy a wolf-howl sound effect that can be used in commercial applications? There are some on soundrangers.com and I’ll use those..."
Elder Game: Complexity and Group Combat
Created page with "Right now I’m just bug-fixing the pre-alpha, which is torturous and tedious, so I won’t blog about that. Instead let me talk a bit about types of gameplay complexity. Goo..."
Elder Game: What’s my target audience?
Created page with "[This is the end of day #4 of TORTUROUS DEBUGGING. I'm just trying to get the game stable and playable on a real internet connection (instead of local LAN). I've tracked down..."
Elder Game: Quick Test of Pre-Alpha 0.1 Completed
Created page with "EDIT: my HUGE thanks to the dozen people who were able to hop in (with no notice) and help test the very early pre-alpha! I’ve taken the server down now to work on the many,..."
Elder Game: Easy Player-Made Content
Created page with "[I'm still working on bugs, polish, and a bit more content for the next playable pre-alpha. I just got the camera controls fixed! I also added sliders and settings so people c..."
Elder Game: Project Gorgon’s Death Penalty
Created page with "[I'm still working on bugs, polish, and a bit more content for the next playable pre-alpha. I just got the camera controls fixed! I also added sliders and settings so people c..."
Elder Game: Sign Up For Pre-Alpha/Alpha/Beta
Created page with "I realized that if I just publicly announce the pre-alpha login URL here, then I won’t be able to control how many people are in it. I need to let people in slowly enough th..."
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Elder Game: Expediency, Thy Name is Indie MMO
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Elder Game: The point of races
Created page with "[Note to pre-alpha testers: a new version is now live! Among other things, Psychology and Art History skills now have content. Probably the biggest improvement is that monster..."
Elder Game: Expediency, Thy Name is Indie MMO
Created page with "[Note to pre-alpha testers: a new version is now live! Among other things, Psychology and Art History skills now have content. Probably the biggest improvement is that monster..."
Elder Game: A setback
Created page with "I just got this email from Unity3d’s asset store manager: ''We deeply regret to inform you that the seller Atlas Studio, aka Five Frog, aka BE3D, violated the Unity Asset S..."
Elder Game: Disney-esque House Magic
Created page with "I’ve been surprised by the number of people who don’t realize this little bit of MMO trickery: most houses in MMOs are Disneyland fantasy houses, tiny models that couldn..."
Elder Game: Believe In Yourself and Blah Blah Blah
Created page with "''[This is a pep-talk to myself. I've spent 28 of the last 36 hours rewriting a major part of the innards of the Gorgon server. The work was not pleasant, and I had mysterious..."
Elder Game: Update on the Next Step
Created page with "[I meant to post this the day after my last post, but I got distracted and had to go to conferences in San Francisco. Back now!] The Next Step I’ve had nagging doubts beca..."
Elder Game: Quote of the Day: Balance
Created page with "Eric: “The onion rings were 12 because I didn’t want to overpower the hash browns.” Sandra: “If it makes you feel any better, I just powered the hell out of the Bonus..."
Elder Game: Quick Dev Diary: Combos
Created page with "I realized I never talked about the combo system, so I’ll do that real quick. This system adds some simple strategy (and IMO some much-needed fun) to unarmed combat. (And ev..."
Elder Game: Quote of the Day
Created page with "Sandra: “Are these mushroom smoothies supposed to require cooking or mycology?” Eric: “Don’t worry about that right now.” <pause> “It’s a live team problem.”..."
Elder Game: Adding Direction
Created page with "After some nasty post-GDC sick days (weeks, really), I’m back and working pretty hard on the MMO. The pre-alpha server is still down, which is upsetting, but it will be back..."
Elder Game: When Puppets Lose Their Puppeteers
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Elder Game: Still Developing!
Created page with "The tutorial cave is finished and some of the immediate follow-up content is also done. I’m still adding a few more bits of content, but mostly it’s polish at this point...."
Elder Game: When Puppets Lose Their Puppeteers
Created page with "The tutorial cave is finished and some of the immediate follow-up content is also done. I’m still adding a few more bits of content, but mostly it’s polish at this point...."
Elder Game: Cows
Created page with "Cows? Cows. I’ve asked the pre-alpha players to turn themselves into cows and test out the cow-form curse for a bit. They’ve found some serious problems, like cows not fi..."
Elder Game: Death Stories in MMOs
Created page with "Okay, let’s talk about something completely unimportant for a while. This is the tiniest little detail, and it doesn’t make or break the game in any way. But I found it in..."
Elder Game: Video Diary, First Attempt
Created page with "Here’s the first attempt at a video diary. (I actually did like ten takes but this is the least rambling one.) This whole “video” thing will take practice… I have a ha..."
Elder Game: Gorgon Random Treasure
Created page with "I was replaying Borderlands and realized that I’ve been thinking all wrong about random treasure systems. Yes, they’re damned hard to do well. But even if they’re done p..."
Elder Game: My Favorite Bugs (Part I)
Created page with ": - Need better error message when a cow tries to use a fire staff. : - The cool-down timer for Basic Spore Bomb is tied to the cow’s front kick and possibly other attacks..."
Elder Game: On Fire, and Wolf-Talk, and Competitive Systems
Created page with "The pre-alpha testers’ comments and feedback have been extremely enlightening, and I really appreciate each of you who took the time to give me feedback, especially the play..."
Elder Game: What It Means to Be Undead
Created page with "Still working hard on the MMO, but not much new to show yet. Soon! In the meantime, let’s talk a bit about the back story of the game. “Oh No, It’s the Undead!” Earl..."
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Elder Game: Facebook me!
Created page with "Can you take a second to like Project Gorgon on Facebook? I just need a few more likers to get a non-hideous URL! https://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Gorgon/29242490414419..."
Elder Game: A little more about evil, undead, and pet classes
Created page with "[Preview testers: there is a new version of the game up! However, the forums are still down. Please send any feedback or bugs to [email protected]!] What Is Evil? I..."
Elder Game: Battle Chemistry
Created page with "Whoa, not getting enough blogging done! Lots of stuff is happening, let me try to catch up. Here’s a new combat skill: Battle Chemistry. Advanced Combat Skills Some combat..."
Elder Game: Progress Update
Created page with "Just some notes about things… there’s lots of things happening, but I’m totally overwhelmed and failing to blog about them. Let’s see: Title and Logo! For now (and q..."
Elder Game: Optional Ways to Play
Created page with "I want to support optional ways to play the MMO. I think these add a lot of depth and replay value, and for little effort on my part. Here’s what I have in mind at the momen..."
Elder Game: Today in pictures
Created page with "Working on some new content today – a new newbie town. I’ve got some new NPC tech that’s making it a lot of fun to work on. Here’s some screenshots: Milking a cow NPC..."
Elder Game: Gorgon Kickstarter is Coming!
Created page with "Why Kickstarter? The scene is my home office, about a month ago. Sandra is acting as producer for the MMO, looking over the schedule. : - Sandra: “So you’re behind sched..."
Elder Game: Crazier Kickstarter Reward Ideas
Created page with "Thanks again for the feedback on Kickstarter! I’m definitely going to use some of the easier suggestions, such as getting your name in the credits, a unique appearance item,..."
Elder Game: The Case Against Auction Houses
Created page with "I don’t have anything against auctions. But in an MMO, an Auction House is shorthand for “everybody sells everything for the lowest price the market will bear.” This is..."
Elder Game: How does Project Gorgon make money?
Created page with "I didn’t start making an MMO because I thought it was a good business idea. I did it because I want to run an MMO. I love maintaining a world, tuning it, watching it grow. I..."
Elder Game: The dangers of a too-statistics-driven treasure generator
Created page with "[ Just an anecdote today, as I'm still working on the Kickstarter preparations. I've got Sandra heavily involved now, and she's helping slog through a bunch of remaining tasks..."
Elder Game: Kickstarter is Live!
Created page with "We’re kickstartin’! Please pledge if you can. We tried to make the rewards as fun as possible. Thanks! Category:Game BlogsCategory:Elder Game Blog"
Elder Game: Video Diary
Created page with "Here’s a new video! Thrill to the minutia of treasure-item presentation! (Wow, that makes it sound awesome.) Sorry about the audio volume mixing, gotta turn the volume up t..."
Elder Game: Please TwitFace Project: Gorgon!
Created page with "After Eric posted about KickAssist (which I keep reading as kickass-ist, which is presumably some sort of really cool profession), tad commented: ''I would also suggest you a..."
Elder Game: Opening Pre-Alpha to Kickstarter pledges!
Created page with "We’ve been hard at work robustifying the pre-alpha servers, and we’re finally ready to let people check it out! We’re sending out keys to Kickstarter pledges now. There..."
Elder Game: Community-esque things
Created page with "It’s been almost decade since I was a dev on a Stratics forum, but that’s changed: today Stratics set us up with a forum for Project: Gorgon! Feel free to visit and say hi..."
Elder Game: Quote of the Day: Humanities
Created page with "(04:05:31) Eric Heimburg: Hmm. I need to think about the skill system more and figure out how to divvy up content across all the humanities. <in the other room, Sandra bursts..."
Elder Game: Pre-Alpha’s Getting Better (every day)
Created page with "Things are looking a bit grim for the Kickstarter… that’s a big number to earn and only a few more days. But we’re doing all we can on that front — and it takes a lot..."