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Webvan
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Posted - 2015.06.11 22:23:00 -
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Themepark
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1. a cave in which Barney the Dinosaur dwells.
2. a box full of broken and urine soaked legos.
3. a building in which child care services are conducted.
4. a public swimming pool frequently contaminated.
5. an mmorpg with a progression path. |
Webvan
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Posted - 2015.06.12 04:28:07 -
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Otso Bakarti wrote:I'm Cool. and You Suck Land.
hah! by your definition, EVE could fit into the themepark game category. There's an enigma for you, a themepark sandbox game (they are like total opposite). Nope.. when one has a thirst for knowledge, they shouldn't just make things up, just makes for more confusion. Even this explains it well enough. Then sites like gamasutra (a popular developers site) spends lots time in technical details on the subject.
Would be nice if it were true, because then from the designer/developer perspective it would be just as easy to develop any game as easily as it is to develop one of them themepark games. But truth is, sandbox type games are much more difficult to develop and maintain. Themeparks are very easy to make though, just set up your rails and have the players woosh on by at a nice steady rate. Especially now with all the f2p's themeparks copying wow, less investment means less risk, potential for quick cash cow money. |
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Posted - 2015.06.13 10:48:51 -
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DaReaper wrote:EvE is not like this. there is a small theme park in that you CAN run missions, 1-5, you can go to incursions which has a natural progression of easy to hard. But this is basically like going to the Santa Cruiz beach board walk. you have the theme park area, but also the beach to go play in with tools littered all over. Hey "E-Ticket" grandpa, missions are not a progression themepark mechanic  
If they were, you'd level-up by doing them. 5yrs into the game, you might find yourself grinding lvl1's to raise faction and standings. Missions have and do fit well inside a sandbox. EVE isn't the first sandbox to do so. gramps.
PotC was so much better before the johnny depp makeover. Well, at least they didn't cast MaAatt DAAaamooon as Capt. Jack Sparrow.
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Posted - 2015.06.15 02:25:59 -
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DaReaper wrote:its as close to a theme park area as eve has, close to it... well you could say the same thing about mining then, in fact more so because it's actually a static encounter. EVE is obviously not a pure sandbox, it's an openworld mmo (more reminiscent of a simulator e.g. sandbox-simulator er or simulated-sandbox). Openworld shouldn't be confused with themepark, design mechanics tend to be a bit different. The only pure sandbox mmo I can think of is secondlife. I still have an old book of Disney tickets btw  |
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