Busy, Busy, Busy
I have been so busy with work and RL issues this past two weeks I have had next to no time to blog.
I do have a post I am working on writing up about the problems of sandbox PvP. (It is a bit of commentary and dissection of the recent post by Scott Jennings).
Anyway, with my last post about the problems with levels, I started thinking more and more about how I would design my MMO idea (Dawn of Steam, a steampunk MMO) to work with that. So my next project is going to be very ambitious. I plan on writing up a full design doc for what I would make the game to be. From zone setup to dungeons to class mechanics to PvP and city siege mechanics to raids to vanity pets and player housing, I plan on brainstorming it all.
We often see game designers as our personal punching bags, assuming that if we were at the helm, we could do infinitely better than them. So this is my chance to prove myself and my thoughts in practice.