Time to brush the dust off!
It's not a very well kept secret in some circles that about 5 months ago I began working on JipangMUCK, NuJipang, Jipang 3.0, whatever people want to call it. MotM had died down significantly and hadn't shown signs of picking up since and I'd been mulling the idea of making one last game from scratch for a while now. ProtoMUCK tech has come a long way since the last time I made a game from the ground up (Original Jipang), and I felt like I could make things even more interesting than before with the years of experience I had working with all of MotM's gameplay systems.
Given that I've been asked a number of times over the years to remake JipangMUCK, I felt there would be enough interest in the game to be worth spending the time working on it. Historical Asian Fantasy has always been a theme near and dear to my heart and for the last couple of years I was really itching to be able to RP in a game centered around it one more time. My hope is that there are others that are interested in being able to RP at a quality game made with this theme.
And so I've been working on the game for about 5 months now along with a small group of MU* veterans. Almost all of the technology that I wanted to develop for it has been implemented but there's still a lot of work to be done on the 'Content' side of things. Having reached this point in development, I want to establish a place where those who are interested in the potential the game offers will have a place to ask questions and discuss things that they are interested in seeing on the game. Since this LJ community already existed, I've decided to try and use it to be that forum for now. There might be better options to use and I'm certainly open to suggestions, but this should work as a start!
If you are following this community or have been pointed to it and are interested in discussing the development of the game, feel free to jump in and post anything you'd like in the comments. If you know people that might also be interested in it, feel free to point them to this community as well.
In my next post, I'll list a number of high level pieces of information that I imagine people are curious about. But what gets posted after that will largely depend on what questions you have or what things you would like to request that I expand on.
Feel free to post questions in the comments on this post or any other post in the community. For now, any member of the community can make new entries if they'd like, though if that starts to get out of hand, I might have to restrict who can make new entries, eh heh.
So there you go! Things I'm really interested in knowing from anyone interested in sharing include:
- What aspects of a theme like this appeal to you?
- What type(s) of characters would you be most interested in RPing?
- Is there anything you hope the game DOESN'T allow/feature that would make it less appealing for you?
- Are there any non-theme features that you hope to see/not see, such as web page profiles for characters, stats/combat system, etc.?
- Are you interested in RPing FCs for this setting or mostly interested in possibilities for OCs?
- What FC casts would you want to make sure the game incorporates?
Weighing in at this stage of development can definitely influence the course things take for the future of the game, so now's your chance!
-Akari
Given that I've been asked a number of times over the years to remake JipangMUCK, I felt there would be enough interest in the game to be worth spending the time working on it. Historical Asian Fantasy has always been a theme near and dear to my heart and for the last couple of years I was really itching to be able to RP in a game centered around it one more time. My hope is that there are others that are interested in being able to RP at a quality game made with this theme.
And so I've been working on the game for about 5 months now along with a small group of MU* veterans. Almost all of the technology that I wanted to develop for it has been implemented but there's still a lot of work to be done on the 'Content' side of things. Having reached this point in development, I want to establish a place where those who are interested in the potential the game offers will have a place to ask questions and discuss things that they are interested in seeing on the game. Since this LJ community already existed, I've decided to try and use it to be that forum for now. There might be better options to use and I'm certainly open to suggestions, but this should work as a start!
If you are following this community or have been pointed to it and are interested in discussing the development of the game, feel free to jump in and post anything you'd like in the comments. If you know people that might also be interested in it, feel free to point them to this community as well.
In my next post, I'll list a number of high level pieces of information that I imagine people are curious about. But what gets posted after that will largely depend on what questions you have or what things you would like to request that I expand on.
Feel free to post questions in the comments on this post or any other post in the community. For now, any member of the community can make new entries if they'd like, though if that starts to get out of hand, I might have to restrict who can make new entries, eh heh.
So there you go! Things I'm really interested in knowing from anyone interested in sharing include:
- What aspects of a theme like this appeal to you?
- What type(s) of characters would you be most interested in RPing?
- Is there anything you hope the game DOESN'T allow/feature that would make it less appealing for you?
- Are there any non-theme features that you hope to see/not see, such as web page profiles for characters, stats/combat system, etc.?
- Are you interested in RPing FCs for this setting or mostly interested in possibilities for OCs?
- What FC casts would you want to make sure the game incorporates?
Weighing in at this stage of development can definitely influence the course things take for the future of the game, so now's your chance!
-Akari