#mmo design

[raphkoster]

Wishlist STARS REACH and its living world

Over the years, I’ve tried many ways of making living worlds. This video here explains how we are doing it on Stars Reach. Which you can now wishlist on Steam. The Living World of Stars Reach As you can see if you watch the video, we’re already pulling off something a bit unusual: modelling a world at MMO scale using cellular automata. What that means: we know the humidity, the temperature, the…

[prokopetz]

I haven't played an MMO in many years, but I was pretty big into The Realm back in the day, and in retrospect it's genuinely hilarious how many eary MMOs just... didn't have moderation tools. Like, the "moderators" were regular players with special beyond-max-level characters who got paid by the developer to wander around enforcing the game's terms of service by physically fighting rule-breakers. There was no mechanism for banning accounts, so if they wanted to get rid of you for good they'd cast a spell that would teleport your character to a "jail" region with no exits, and if you managed to noclip out and return to the regular play area they literally had no way of knowing about it unless a moderator who knew about your ban happened to see you. Just an incredibly dumb way to run an online service.

[madameevil]

I really only play one MMO, Guild Wars 2. I play it because it's always been respectful of my time.

It never negatively pressures me to play it everyday.

It never punishes me for taking time away and returning.

It never forces me to grind for hundreds of hours relying on RNG.

It never forces me to have a coordinated group of people with a consistent schedule.

I love it for all that. It's not like most MMOs because of all this. It's also unfortunately what a lot of "more intense" gamers complain about. They complain about it being too casual but honestly it just sounds like they're upset they have little to no way to gatekeep the experience.

God forbid you have other hobbies or games to play! God forbid something happens in your life and you need to take time away! Instead of punishing you, the game is good at just welcoming you right back in where you left off. It's comforting and honestly I hope it never changes. It's a reliable game I can always return to no matter how long it's been.

[raishical]

Verna Wakfu or something idk can we get some Ouginak appreciation I need more dog people in my life

[crystalleoi]

Mecha MePhones... mecha-phones?

Robots :)

[nanakathana]

Maji market Reth's stand apreciation post

[samsantala]

Guild Wars 2 | Kirin Jackal Skin

The Kirin Jackal Skin brief was to design a skin that could replace a previous design for a Kirin-like creature

Art direction by Marianne Martin

Special Thanks to VOLTA, and ArenaNet for the opportunity. (i.e. Copyright © 2024 ArenaNet, LLC. All right reserved. Shared with authorization)

[ackee]

honestly i be designing the fawkkkkk out some characters i cant hold you.. @ackee

[smallestflowtree]

Lil sketch of Hodari in a woolly jumper for September

[hellishcargirl]

Making a lil wind effect animation for when trees fall after being chopped down by the player in my game that I'm developing :3

[lizzybeeee]

No matter your opinion of DATV, I think we can all agree that they did the Grey Warden's dirty by getting rid of one of the most iconic fantasy faction armour designs in video games and instead replacing them with reject 'World of Warcraft' lite designs.

[pikinanouart]

The RPG AU nobody asked for mainly to redeem my poor 1st attempt a billion years ago.

I drew most of these so long ago but I kept holding back from posting since I couldn't decide if I liked Twillight design.

[gaylittleguys]

can I be so real with you guys I think warwicks design in-show is kinda ass

[neyrika]

I love #Palia SO MUCH

This game and characters in my heart 💜

I don't really like this spread in the sketchbook, but I decided to show it to you anyway

[nanakathana]

Maji market Delaila stand apreciation post

[thegreatyin]

both WoW and GW2 currently run laps around FFXIV in terms of housing design and that's wild for so many reasons. though admittedly simply not recreating the real-world housing market crisis isn't that hard to do