speaking of card games does anyone feel that magic the gathering as a video game was properly done? Is it a good idea to put a popular card game on an online...
As I understand it there are several 'Magic: The Gathering' themed video games, though the most poular would seem to be 'Magic: Online' - though it appears to...
The Astral Masters posts got me thinking, why haven't any pencil & paper role playing games come into the video game world. I would think that a remote D&D...
... To a large extent I thought that's what Role-Playing MUDs are. On such MUDs, people are expected to behave 'in character' as would be typical in a D&D...
You should take a look at Neverwinter Nights - D&D system, and supports Gamesmaster direction. Not sure how popular it is though - I always though one of the...
I meant a simple program that would function a lot like aim in the sense that you need to get the screen names for the players before you can start up games...
... Chat and spatial tracking of player movement is pretty easy. Building game maps requires some thinking thinking about "what can be on a game map," but...
Several programs already exist, with varying features. At the simplest end, a lot of IRC servers have dicebots. AIM has a dicebot for its chat as well. TRIS...
... you ... OpenRPG is the answer to your questions. It has servers, lobbies, XML character sheets, dice macros, maps, counters, chat with whispering, and a...
when prototyping the match simulation for an online soccer management game, i first used excel to get a feel for how the variables interacted. but right after...
I think that there is a definite niche in this market, but one that is sadly shrinking as the die hard pen-and-paper-er's fade away. Still, 25% of the video...
Hi, they're not really fading away- they're having ups and downs, depending on what pen n paper rpg system you are looking at. with card games and computer...
Here is a postmortem for the cellphone game "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050505/marley_01.shtml Briefly, it's a...
I'm perusing the want-ads to find yet another way to shoestring my ongoing indie habit. I've thought that politics might be more up my alley than programming,...
I'm new here look at my profile as me introduction... I just would like to have some advice on how to make it out to game designing cauze I'm about to take it...
Well, I think the abstracted nature of the J2ME environment (which is most commonly used for mobile phone game development) and the vast range of possible...
I came across the following page about Artificial Life "Games." http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/luigi/lupa_algames.html It appears to contain a vast amount of...
... Maxis has produced a very complex simulator called SimLife. The creatures and plants in it have a simplified genome with lots of attributes and the engine...
... Could be a good project for an indie developer! I used to love Sim Life on the Amiga, but the PC version was DOS-based and I never got it working properly,...
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... I've got a Windows 3.11 version here that works fine in 98. :) I don't know if it was the Windows version that introduced new bugs or if they were already...
http://www.random-art.org/ It generates random 2D pictures, and then people vote on whether the pictures are good or not. Strikes me as quite an interesting...
You can try http://www.conitec.net/a4info.htm A6.3 engine has pre written customizable scripts for game prototyping. or you can try http://www.virtools.com/ ...
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20050610/leker_01.shtml Oasis is a small "summary game" of the 4X TBS genre. It won the IGF 2004 Grand Prize and also...
From: "Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@...> ... Nifty little game! I saw it on RealArcade a while ago, but from the screenshots I assumed it...
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