HJ-Dune Walker
Cadet
Figured this didn't quite belong in the General Forum, as it isn't strictly about Heroes Journey, but ah well.
As some of you no doubt know, I am a fan of Verb Systems in video games. Of my posts on the matter, most have referenced Simutronics' earlier text based game, DragonRealms, and the extensive verb system therein.
Well, I peeked at some of the new information about DR since I've lately been bantying about trying to decide if I should pick it up again after all these years. Anywho, I came across this nugget of information.
It seems they've been streamlining the verb system, largely to make it more uniform and sensible, and now they've implemented an experimental system. You type the command VERB [Letter] and it pulls up all game verbs that start with that letter. Handy that!
Talk amongst yerselves!
~Dune~
As some of you no doubt know, I am a fan of Verb Systems in video games. Of my posts on the matter, most have referenced Simutronics' earlier text based game, DragonRealms, and the extensive verb system therein.
Well, I peeked at some of the new information about DR since I've lately been bantying about trying to decide if I should pick it up again after all these years. Anywho, I came across this nugget of information.
It seems they've been streamlining the verb system, largely to make it more uniform and sensible, and now they've implemented an experimental system. You type the command VERB [Letter] and it pulls up all game verbs that start with that letter. Handy that!
- At first I thought, oh wow! That's really cool! That sounds really useful!
- But then, I thought about how a significant portion of the depth of DragonRealms came from the immersive world that you didn't always know how to work with. Finding new verbs was always a treat, and this kinda ruins that.
- But then I turned around and said, well hey, the actual fun isn't finding out what Verbs are actually coded into the game, but instead the fun is in finding new ways to use them throughout the game world!
- And then I thought, well still, it does kind of take you out of the immersive world around you. But I countered that with all the other help commands, and with the character creation screen, and all the other OOC explanation stuff necesarry in the game to make the IC stuff possible.
- So ultimately, I think I really like the idea!
Talk amongst yerselves!
~Dune~