I was just curious about any research I could do on "Game Design" and the procedure that others go through when creating the basis for a mud. Not necessarily the mud itself, but the theme and what you expect to have in it.
Could anyone that has made a mud, or mud theme, please lits any research they did before doing so, or perhaps their personal order of events that they take in the prepping of a mud.
First thing I would do is come up with an idea, a basic world setting that you would like to play in. Once you have the basic concept, try to fill in the ideas a little more so you have something another person could read and understand(if you're anything like me, this will take like 20 rewrites, heh).
Once you have a basic idea for your game, storyline and mechanics, then you need to look at what codebase is closest to what you want to make. If you can code yourself it's better, if not you'll need to find someone to help you with that part.
Just remember, things and ideas will change over time, so don't be surprised if you look at it one day and realize it's very different from what you had originally thought.
If you want to look at Http://Ilyrias.blogspot.com that is the development blog(that I really need to post on more) for Ilyrias and goes over a lot of our ideas and why we made those choices.
If you get some ideas, post them up and I'm sure you'll get some comments(both good and bad).
Design Template
Posted By: Osiris on
08/15/06 at 09:18 AM
I've asked the community before if there were a published design document I might use for my Egyptian theme ideas but I didn't get anything.
Recently I've considered scrapping my authentic Egyptian theme for more of a modern day or even modestly futuristic theme heavy with ancient Egyptian myth elements. The discovery of artifacts imbued with magic power that become divided between factions fighting with eachother for posession of all. Having all of them would give them power absolute over everyone else.
If you come up with a template let me know. Or maybe we can hash one out here?
Books......
Posted By: Vanquish on
08/15/06 at 12:34 PM
I was told to check out a book by Dr.Bartle. Has anyone ever read any of his books, and if so what did they think about them? Where they a positive thing or not?
