My OperaOn Gaming Culture, Part 2
Sunday, March 26, 2006 1:55:11 AM
Now, those of us who follow the game scene, well know that Elder Scrolls IV has turned out to be a great game, it is hands down the best Xbox360 game out now. But imagine how many people it took to create that lavish , albeit static, world. Even though the world is huge it is also never going to change, when you start a new game the world won't be 'different' par se, it will be the same world, with maybe a little changes here and there because of your actions. I think that more game developers should look toward the demoscene( programmer who try to make great programs, including very nice FPS's, using as little space as possible, take this site, a 96k FPS that has great grahpics and is pretty fun to play). The reason, as you all probably know by now, is that game development cost are skyrocketing and any way for developers to cut back on cost would be great.
The first, and one of the most innovative, developers to take up this idea is Will Wright/Maxis. If you haven't already seen the video demostration of Spore being played by Wright, go over to goglevideo and search for the game. Using mathematical formulas and procedures, he has created a game in which whole object that are created by the player are recorded procedurally, so that when they are stoed they only take up 1k, very nice. Now even though this idea of procedural generation is nice, for some games this would obvoiusly not work. Take a FPS, the developer, unless they create crazy smart AI, would not be able to control what the AI would do if each time you played the game the world changed. But in contrast to that imagine an RPG in which each time you played the people, towns and places changed everytime you started a new game, or if the laws of physics in a, lets say combat, game changed each time? How fun would that be, to never really have the same experince twice.
One of the greatest benifits, RTS's already do this with the random map generator, would be if in a FPS multiplayer you could select an option for the computer/console to create a map all on its own, so each map would be different and a new experince. But like most things in life this is easier said than done, but hopefully it will be done at some point in time. Thats all I have to say for now, next I will talk about a game series I thought up called envision(add noun such as Life, Tennis, Navy so i.e. envisionTennis or envision Navy) , who knows maybe a game developer is creating a game such as that right now.
The first, and one of the most innovative, developers to take up this idea is Will Wright/Maxis. If you haven't already seen the video demostration of Spore being played by Wright, go over to goglevideo and search for the game. Using mathematical formulas and procedures, he has created a game in which whole object that are created by the player are recorded procedurally, so that when they are stoed they only take up 1k, very nice. Now even though this idea of procedural generation is nice, for some games this would obvoiusly not work. Take a FPS, the developer, unless they create crazy smart AI, would not be able to control what the AI would do if each time you played the game the world changed. But in contrast to that imagine an RPG in which each time you played the people, towns and places changed everytime you started a new game, or if the laws of physics in a, lets say combat, game changed each time? How fun would that be, to never really have the same experince twice.
One of the greatest benifits, RTS's already do this with the random map generator, would be if in a FPS multiplayer you could select an option for the computer/console to create a map all on its own, so each map would be different and a new experince. But like most things in life this is easier said than done, but hopefully it will be done at some point in time. Thats all I have to say for now, next I will talk about a game series I thought up called envision(add noun such as Life, Tennis, Navy so i.e. envisionTennis or envision Navy) , who knows maybe a game developer is creating a game such as that right now.
