Geneforge Online

[Doom989]

a version of Geneforge online..would simple rule! who's with me?

[Aran]

No.

[IEatCabbage]

Don't see how it could work.

 

You change area and run into 10 different shapers?

 

Geneforge was designed as single player.

[Doom989]

Your thinking small. Try to imagine it on larger scale.

[tridash]

This has been discussed many times here (well, at least a few times). The answer is "No" for reasons that you can probably find using the handy search link at the top of the forums

[Zealot]

Yes. Something like Runescape. ( http://www.runescape.com )

[Joseph Stalin]

this has been discussed tons of times and word on all is there wont be one,80% here prefer single player,and the time it would take to make would be too long for jeff,plus the costs of maintaining a server for an online game are staggering. so dont expect one in the near future

[Kelandon]

The GF interface actually could sort of work in an online format. The turn-based combat would have to be shifted to real-time, and dialogue would probably have to work differently, but most of the needed changes could be mostly invisible engine changes.

 

But it would be such a massive rewrite of the inner workings of the engine that there's sort of no point. Jeff could never do it, and he's said so.

[Jaid]

frankly, i wouldn't want him to do it. or at least, not GF as it currently is.

 

possibly if they were to make a GF based strategy based game or something i could see it, but otherwise i still say no.

 

of course, even that isn't likely to happen as an online game, since if it's too much work and resources involved to modify GF to be online, then i doubt it's any easier to make an entirely new game engine, and then to make that online

 

mind you, i dunno how much effort it would be to make it LAN playable... that might be interesting...

[The_Other_Guy]

Also it would have to be made trainer-proof somehow or people will have impossibly high stats

[Slith Lord]

Is it even possible to make a trainer-proof game???

[John S]

Well, to make a game trainer-proof you would have to keep all player's information on a database instead of a save file on their computer.

[The Baird]

Now, I would love to see something like a Geneforge Online system, were it feasible. However, I think that as far as storyline and world size is concerned, Avernum would translate better to an Online setting.

[Jaid]

we haven't seen much of the GF world. how do we know how big it is? really, you've seen a single island (GF1) a small area way out in the middle of nowhere (GF2), and a small chain of islands off the mainland (GF3). consider how big the mainland might be, not to mention any further islands, and also consider that there's a whole continent out there that we haven't seen (where the sholai come from).

 

i think the GF world is big enough, if they chose to put it all in there.

[Lilith]

We've been over this before. Spiderweb Software consists of Jeff Vogel, his wife and his secretary: that's it. It's not a high-budget game studio which can afford to risk making a loss on some of its products in hopes of turning out a big money-spinner. Jeff can't afford to spend that much time and money designing a game in a genre he's not experienced with and which may or may not sell well with his usual audience.

[*i]

I think this topic getting posted every month or two is due to some sort of spacetime anomoly where this topic gets stuck in some loop of the continuum. Thoughts?

[Jaid]

meh. we can always dream. maybe he'll win the lottery twice

 

and uhh... inherit his long lost uncle's international gaming company.

[Aran]

Quote:

Originally written by *i:
I think this topic getting posted every month or two is due to some sort of spacetime anomoly where this topic gets stuck in some loop of the continuum. Thoughts?

Lock on sight. That's the only cure. Optionally, post Sailor Moon.