Raph is a prominent game designer, one of the designers of Ultima Online and writes a lot about game design. This is interesting at least because people have high hopes that he will build another good systemic sandbox MMO.
I agree though that this looks surprisingly dull and also that the trailer doesn’t do a great job selling the systems side of things either.
Is there a better resource that talks about the systems side of things? It looks like there might be something interesting there but it's too opaque to figure out what that might be
The things I could tease out:
* Fully modifiable worlds
* "living worlds", or at least grass grows and other ecosystem-y things
* No partitioning of player base, all in same realm
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Raph is a prominent game designer, one of the designers of Ultima Online and writes a lot about game design. This is interesting at least because people have high hopes that he will build another good systemic sandbox MMO.
I agree though that this looks surprisingly dull and also that the trailer doesn’t do a great job selling the systems side of things either.
Is there a better resource that talks about the systems side of things? It looks like there might be something interesting there but it's too opaque to figure out what that might be
The things I could tease out:
* Fully modifiable worlds
* "living worlds", or at least grass grows and other ecosystem-y things
* No partitioning of player base, all in same realm
The Discord is currently the probably best place with the most information...
https://discord.gg/starsreach
Check "A brief, subjective history..." in "community-forum", for a rough summary of what is known so far.