Comments on: Dawn of Daria’s Community Timeline http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/ Creative Games Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:38:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Novan http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-32 Novan Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:46:22 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-32 "The Akarra 2 team launches akarra.com and begins testing some initial quests. Their shard has some an interesting noob town, but is overall too ambitious." I feel I must make a comment about this, as I was the quest scripter and story writer for the noob town. In principle, the ideas were sound. I have the flow chart open in front of me and the newbie town was pretty damned complicated. Perhaps I did overstep myself. There were 50 different dialog screens stemming from 5 NPCS and these 5 NPCs gave roughly 12 quests. Debugging this newbie town alone was hellish. I was learning the scripting on the fly. Then, it was planned to have quests for every possible skill, and some random NPCs and random quests (some of which I'm quite proud of). Overall, 57 NPCs were fully scripted and I count 33 finished quests. It would have worked as well(!) but I decided to bail as the project was wa-ay too time consuming.. “The Akarra 2 team launches akarra.com and begins testing some initial quests. Their shard has some an interesting noob town, but is overall too ambitious.”

I feel I must make a comment about this, as I was the quest scripter and story writer for the noob town. In principle, the ideas were sound. I have the flow chart open in front of me and the newbie town was pretty damned complicated. Perhaps I did overstep myself.

There were 50 different dialog screens stemming from 5 NPCS and these 5 NPCs gave roughly 12 quests. Debugging this newbie town alone was hellish. I was learning the scripting on the fly.

Then, it was planned to have quests for every possible skill, and some random NPCs and random quests (some of which I’m quite proud of). Overall, 57 NPCs were fully scripted and I count 33 finished quests.

It would have worked as well(!) but I decided to bail as the project was wa-ay too time consuming..

]]> By: Oxeye Game Studio » Blog Archive » Whispers in Akarra, Server Source http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-26 Oxeye Game Studio » Blog Archive » Whispers in Akarra, Server Source Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:19:44 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-26 [...] I wrote earlier, Dawn of Daria and, in essence, Oxeye Game Studio have a past in an online role-playing game called [...] […] I wrote earlier, Dawn of Daria and, in essence, Oxeye Game Studio have a past in an online role-playing game called […]

]]> By: Talonz http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-25 Talonz Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:10:37 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-25 Awesome timeline, looking forward to the articles! Would just like to make it clear we had no affiliation with Trance or his team and we did launch Project Phoenix, but it went inactive after Origon and Braiba became inactive with real life issues. =) Awesome timeline, looking forward to the articles! Would just like to make it clear we had no affiliation with Trance or his team and we did launch Project Phoenix, but it went inactive after Origon and Braiba became inactive with real life issues. =)

]]> By: admin http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-16 admin Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:13:17 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-16 Thanks Satch, but I think this will be better. Hopefully it'll even be updated more than once per week! :) /jeb Thanks Satch, but I think this will be better. Hopefully it’ll even be updated more than once per week! :)

/jeb

]]> By: Satch http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-15 Satch Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:51:16 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-15 "Over the year, the readers of the update have become more and more irritated by this, which is sometimes reflected by their replies." Don't listen to them! Reading the development journal had become a part of my weekly schedule some months back. My opinion is that any development news, regardless of project, is always interesting and inspiring. I wish you guys the best of luck - you deserve it. Keep the ideas fresh and executables flowing ;) “Over the year, the readers of the update have become more and more irritated by this, which is sometimes reflected by their replies.”

Don’t listen to them!

Reading the development journal had become a part of my weekly schedule some months back. My opinion is that any development news, regardless of project, is always interesting and inspiring.

I wish you guys the best of luck - you deserve it. Keep the ideas fresh and executables flowing ;)

]]> By: admin http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-9 admin Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:58:55 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-9 Yeah, we have had the "alpha 3 todo list" stuck on our wall for half a year now. /jeb Yeah, we have had the “alpha 3 todo list” stuck on our wall for half a year now. /jeb

]]> By: Nivekolas http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-8 Nivekolas Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:49:15 +0000 http://www.oxeyegames.com/dawn-of-darias-community-timeline/#comment-8 so, harvest inturrupted Beta release three? yay, there is still hope! :) hopefully... so, harvest inturrupted Beta release three?

yay, there is still hope! :)
hopefully…

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