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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 25, 2007 4:21:42 GMT
Would it be awesome?
I submit that the answer is yes.
Not even a game so much as a run-around-try-not-to-get-killed-or-caught kinda thing. Eh?
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Post by Yin on Mar 25, 2007 9:11:24 GMT
Yes!!
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Post by Uglyhead on Mar 25, 2007 11:46:19 GMT
"Oh man, the upper years are camping the robot spawn point again. C'mon, maybe we can find some tictocs in the courtyard, they sometimes drop pretty good loot."
"how do I mined for books about minotaurs"
"Can anybody help me with this "retrieve the CPU" quest?"
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Post by owl on Mar 25, 2007 14:07:02 GMT
Hahahahaa! Yes, yes, this would be SO cool.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 25, 2007 16:54:34 GMT
What really made me think of it was the ghost girl and Annan Waters. Something like "secret passage goes wayyyyyyy down, don't get stabbed in the face when you go down there" sort of thing. It'd be so cool.
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Post by Broadus on Mar 25, 2007 20:11:06 GMT
That's hilariously true, uglyhead.
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Post by neal on Mar 25, 2007 22:04:18 GMT
"Hey, could an upper year run me through Annan waters? I can pay!"
"Does someone know how you finish the Dr. Disaster quest? I can't find the endpoint!"
"Ding ding, 2nd year!"
"Haha! I've got enough monies for an epic mount! I'm so getting a Reynardine Wolf!"
That'd be pretty epic, I must say. Did you know noises are being made about a firefly MMO?
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 25, 2007 22:35:13 GMT
Yeah, I think so. That's not Mass Effect, is it?
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Post by owl on Mar 25, 2007 22:37:36 GMT
Did you know noises are being made about a firefly MMO? Geh?! How would THAT work? You would be on spaceships, being cowboys, shooting people in the head? Pure genius. I mean, other than the fact that I do this anyway....
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Post by yeochild on Mar 26, 2007 18:23:24 GMT
AHA! The reason that robots act so stupid/crazy is because they are being controlled by people who think they are playing an MMO!
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Post by mrw on Mar 26, 2007 19:10:33 GMT
I'd even go for a Myst/Riven-like game based on GC.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 27, 2007 0:43:03 GMT
That'd be fun, but I've never liked those-too creepy with on one else around. Besides, it'd be like this forum except way more interactive online!
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Post by my2k on Mar 27, 2007 7:04:03 GMT
I think it's an awesome idea!!! I've got my little character person all planned out: STR: 4, INT: 4, DEX: 3, CHA: 4. It's perfect!
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Post by aoeniac on Mar 27, 2007 20:15:09 GMT
This would be a pretty bad MMO.
It would be a better offline game, with playable characters of Annie, Kat, and maybe Eglamore. Kat would of course, use her inventions to solve problems and defend herself. Annie would instead command Reynardine in battle and requisition help from her supernatural friends like Mort, Basil and Shadow2, or perhaps even some of the more prominent student characters. Eglamore would smash things with his pectorals of justice.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 28, 2007 0:47:45 GMT
I think I used the wrong term when I said MMO. It wouldn't really be a game; it'd be just like this forum, except you could run around and adventure. It'd be like going to the school, except you would respawn in a dorm after being gored by a minotaur or falling into a river. So basically, just an interactive forum to spice things up a bit. Edit: My2k, why low DEX? You can't use arrows!! Hahahaha This is my character. I might tweak it later, add some shading and stuff, but for now; voila! (She wears a tie 'cause she's tough. There's another clue about her tomboyishness too, see if you can find it!) STR: 5, INT: 3, DEX: 3, CHA: 5
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 28, 2007 4:55:43 GMT
How about a MOO? I have experience planning, building, and administrating text-based worlds, and I'd be happy to host and/or start developing one (with help! I've been abandoned on projects before too!) if Tom would approve it. If you have no idea what a MOO is: www.ansiblemoo.org is one about Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, or, short answer is: Text Based Multiplayer Roleplay.
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Post by Yin on Mar 28, 2007 10:27:16 GMT
So, a MOORPG? Are we really gonna create it???
If we are, I predict it shall be awesome. Or a damn slowrunning game.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 28, 2007 16:22:11 GMT
The RPG is implied with a MOO, but yes. And, we would hae to create it. Because the world is text-based, I'd need people who are good writers with creative imaginations to help.
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Post by mrw on Mar 28, 2007 20:03:27 GMT
Please don't take this as being the proverbial wet blanket, but as much as I would love to play a GC RPG, I have to admit I would feel very uncomfortable doing it without Tom being in charge. And I will hazard a guess that he does not have the time be involved. (Here's hoping he'll say I'm wrong!)
Of course, this is because GC is his idea, his creation, and his world. On the practical side, he's the only source of canon and there is still so much we don't know.
In addition, I've heard it can be a problem for an author if fans accidentally anticipate something the author has planned but not yet released. Because of ownership legalities, the author may be forced to change the plotline to avoid the appearance of having "stolen" the ideas. That would really suck for us all, I think. I hope it's not already a problem with all our wild speculation. (John Allison of ScaryGoRound has said he changes his plotlines if people guess them. I don't know if it's for legal or personal reasons. Coincidentally -or not?- when I visit the SGR forum I don't find anywhere near the kind of participation we have here.)
Tom, if you're reading this, maybe it would be worthwhile to add a little legalese to forum that gives you ownership of anything posted in the forum, just to cover such cases? I doubt any serious fan would object - it's in the comic's best interest. Edit: Never mind, wouldn't work.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 28, 2007 20:06:52 GMT
Eh, but that would also make him legally liable for anything that any of us posted, as well as going against several precedents in US courts. (Which apply since Proboards is based in the US)
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 29, 2007 0:26:21 GMT
Why don't you just put something in the User Agreement that says "If we make something and it appears in the comic, you can't sue Tom because it would've happened anyway?"
and Aspen, I'd be interested in writing for it. Are writers basically GMs, and can they have their own characters?
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Post by mrw on Mar 29, 2007 1:27:27 GMT
Eh, but that would also make him legally liable for anything that any of us posted, as well as going against several precedents in US courts. (Which apply since Proboards is based in the US) Ok, scratch that thought. Any comment on the other part of my post?
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 29, 2007 4:05:25 GMT
Legalese: Still a no, in US courts one can sue for just about anything. What we'd state IN GAME is that the world is a derivitive of a copyright owned by Tom Siddel, used with his permission, and that all rights are reserved by the individual copyright holders. This -can- present a problem for writers, but as the thriving PernM* community shows, it doesn't really happen in real life.
A writer is just that, as far as I am concerned- a writer. Some writers would be made developers, that is, in adition to writing rooms they could actually create these within the MOO and develop scripts and objects to run that allow players to interact with the game. Neither a writer or a dev will be an administrator, wizard, or moderator unless they qualified. This is pretty standard, and, of course admins, devs, and writers can have their own characters to play. ^^
MRW- One of the best ways to handle this is to 'branch' the game before anything that has happened in the comics has happened in the game, and continue from there. So, we're playing in the same world, but either no Annie or she's 'scripted', meaning that she only does what she does in the comics. (The same being true for other 'feature characters'.) The most common way to do this is to make it happen either far in advance or far in the future of the actual 'canon' events. (In this case I'd go for the future, because in the past we'd have problems with the older generation.) In this case, about 20 years would be what I'd consider safe, since I doubt that Tom will continue the comic that long from the characters perspecticve. (And if he does, we've already branched off, so anything that happens to us he doesn't acknowledge.)
Whether a GC MOO would 'branch' or follow a cononical storyline would be totally up to Tom, and that assumes that he'd let us have one in the first place.
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Post by Count Casimir on Mar 29, 2007 4:10:19 GMT
So I guess we wait until Tom notices this thread and gives us the go-ahead?
Also, what qualifications does one require to be an admin, mod, or wizard (what exactly is a wizard, by the way?)? Just curious, 'cause I've always wanted to do stuff like that.
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Post by Uglyhead on Mar 29, 2007 17:45:56 GMT
Doesn't it take a fair amount of coding skill to make even a basic text-based MU* thing? Gracious, and then you'd need a place to host it.
I don't think I've ever heard of a webcomic having it's own online game thing before. Well, except for webcomics that are actually based on online games.
Oh, I think sluggy freelance had a... thing, though.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 29, 2007 19:24:32 GMT
Uglyhead- there are several premade servers and cores, one of the most famous being the LambdaMOO core. I'd be using the FooMOO server and FooCORE database to get started- they're pretty much ready for production, with a lot of tools that are a real pain to install already there.
I also have hosting space available that could be used for this.
Sluggy has a MUSH around somewhere.
Oh, hey, reading through the Kudos thread I remember that I mentioned Second Life. It would be quite easy to design an area of second life to look like GC.
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Post by Yin on Mar 29, 2007 22:59:08 GMT
But we'd have to pay a ton for it. Who'll pay?
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Mar 29, 2007 23:41:46 GMT
Actually, it's included in the hosting package that I have (where greydawning.net is hosted), so as long as it doesn't get insanely popular, I could host it quite easily. Haven''t I said that, like, 3 times? Also, M* hosting is usually pretty cheap.
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Post by Yin on Mar 30, 2007 12:15:14 GMT
I meant Second Life, not hosting the RPG.
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Post by Aspen d'Grey on Apr 3, 2007 4:21:36 GMT
Oh. Yeah, that -could- get expensive. But for a while at least, I would be willing to host it on my land, as well as help develop it.
Frankly, even though I brought that up, I'd rather do at as text based MOO.
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