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Elder Game: Creating a backstory for the game
Created page with "I had intended to write about combat this week but it turns out that all my writing time is being taken up by the game itself, so I’ll keep this really brief! Basically, my..."
Elder Game: Thinking about Gorgon Combat
Created page with "[This post is about Project Gorgon, an indie MMO in development.] Pop quiz time: say you have two attacks that do the same damage, but one hits a single target and the other..."
Elder Game: The Stamina Bar
Created page with "[I'm not working on the game this week, instead I'm doubling up on my other work so I can spend a full week on the game next week. But I've had one little anecdote bubbling ar..."
Elder Game: A Psychologist, a Fire Mage, and a Dickweed Walk Into a Bar…
Created page with "[This is about Project Gorgon, a fantasy MMO I am making. It is an insanely difficult project and easily the most ambitious undertaking I have ever made. Join me, won't you, a..."
Elder Game: the reason you write clean code
Created page with "(02:26:08) Eric Heimburg: the reason you write clean code isn’t to be awesome, it’s so that you can spend that cleanliness at the proper moment of desperation. Like at the..."
Elder Game: The first exploiter?
Created page with "No real post this week — I just had a very productive week of development but now I have to switch gears to non-MMO stuff for a week… will be back to the MMO next week! I..."
Elder Game: Minimizing Tedium: Not Always Straightforward
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Elder Game: Minimizing Tedium: Not Always Straightforward
Created page with "A couple weeks back I talked about how you can pick two combat roles at once in my MMO, and switch them out in town. A comment from David Grundy: ''Interesting on the role sw..."
Elder Game: Project Gorgon Screenshot Diary
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Elder Game: Project Gorgon Screenshot Diary
Created page with "(Apparently if you don’t have a Google+ account those pictures can’t be seen? What the heck is up with that?! Guess I’ll do it the old fashioned way… click to enlarge..."
Elder Game: Early prep for newbies
Created page with "Getting people started in an MMO is the hardest part. Their first hour has to be informative but also incredibly entertaining, and it has to set expectations for the entire ga..."
Elder Game: Pot-Luck Dinners and Dungeon Sushi
Created page with "I’m working on some very simple content for the pre-alpha build. Today I added potatoes and onions for the Gardening skill. Now I’m taking a quick break before diving into..."
Elder Game: Words of Power
Created page with "[This post is about 'Project Gorgon', an MMO in development.] I needed something for the Lore skill to do. It’s a prerequisite skill (meaning lots of skills will require it..."
Elder Game: Delays, Thoughts about Launches, and Some Icons
Created page with "My regular job — the one I’ve been doing half-time — has had a crisis and I’ve had to switch back to doing it full time while we deal with an emergency. This will prob..."
Developers
2011
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Category:Elder Game Blog
Created page with "The blog posts listed in this category were once found at www.eldergame.com"
Elder Game: Project Gorgon’s Death Penalty
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Elder Game: Back to work! Pre-Alpha Combat Skills
Created page with "I am finally getting back to work on Project Gorgon, and after a few days of “Oh my god this is a full-sized MMO what the hell is wrong with me” terror, I got back into th..."
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..."