Re: [AD] US Playtest of Dungeon Now Starting From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral) Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000 >>Do you mean that there will be players paying to play in the finished parts of the game world, and simultaneously the other parts of the game will be playtested? By the same people? Or by someone else? I'm not sure I get it yet.<< Well, the game started off as a Dungeon game. You could go to the surface world, but it was damn boring because all there was was a load of grass and trees. So we said to players ''play the Dungeon, don't bother with the surface, there's nothing up there.'' But hey, if they had wanted to walk over miles of endless fields they could have done so! All the game is *one* game. It all exists in the same world and all runs at the same time. New stuff can be added to the game at any time using very powerful editors controlled by the GM, not the programmer. So, wheneve we get time, the GMs sit around and work out cool new things to add to the game. Hence, it is constantly growing. But even in its original form it was a damn fine adventure/RPG style hack-n-slash Dungeon game. Very playable (hence so many people playing it). Recently we added monster positions and told the adventure players ''who wants to add a monster position to their turns?''. The positions sold-out overnight. Their monster positions are in the *same* game world as all the rest of their characters... they could walk there (if they had the time and inclination)... but initially we have walled the entrance to the monster-Dungeon off... to enable the playtest to progress uninterupted. Once we are sure it plays well and is nicely balanced, we will open it up to the rest of the game. >>If they are in a separate location, how are the two connected?<< You walk out of the Dungeon entrance, walk over the overland... then walk into the new Dungeon entrance. >> It sounds like you might as well have two entirely separate games in that case: the finished adventurer game and the unfinished monster game.<< Nope. They are just different position types in one game. later on there will be lots more position types. We'll keep adding them as long as people think of new things they would like to do in a fantasy world. Steve -Madhouse UK Up