MMORPG Tycoon

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Jun 102008
 

Ever wanted to run an MMORPG? Well, now you can without having to do the pesky step of actually creating one. 🙂

MMORPG Tycoon is an indie game written for a game contest. You have a procedurally generated MMO, and your job is to keep the forum posters happy.

I’m downloading it now… watch me suck at it.

  10 Responses to “MMORPG Tycoon”

  1. Pentharian says:
    June 10, 2008 at 10:39 am

    For you, that is quite the metagame. Maybe you ought to try your hand at “World of World of Warcraft” Via the Onion, of course.

  2. Eolirin says:
    June 10, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    The download link doesn’t seem to be working here… did you manage to tank the poor guy’s webserver by posting this Raph?

  3. cliff says:
    June 10, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Yeah, started taking a look at this last night. Right now, I haven’t really got the hang of playing it, but it certainly looks like it could be a lot of fun.

  4. Aldure says:
    June 11, 2008 at 10:23 am

    You dont have to play it, actually only need to know little about it, just keep the forum peeps happy if I read that right, lol

  5. Ian Bogost says:
    June 11, 2008 at 12:54 pm

    Forget the game, the simulated vector engine is rockin’!

  6. Michael W says:
    June 13, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    watch me suck at it.

    Well I don’t know about that Raph, you were pretty good about it pre-launch to SWG.

    Before you fed poor Thunderheart to the dogs. I guess that’s your way of getting revenge for all those essays arguing against single character servers

  7. Guy Russon says:
    June 13, 2008 at 4:36 pm

    It took me about 2 hours to create a MMORPG with a constantly growing subscriber base and average satisfaction of around 4.
    Didn’t manage to control “Forum Buzz” though. Perhaps I should have just made my forums subscriber only and handed out forum bans to all the nay sayers?

    What interested me most though (and what I was hoping for comment on here?) was some of the basic assumptions made with regard to the MMORPG design elements and what keeps subscribers happy?

  8. Morgan Ramsay says:
    June 13, 2008 at 5:51 pm

    Heh, MMORPG Tycoon crashed. I’m sure there’s something clever to be said.

  9. B4z4Ru5 says:
    June 17, 2008 at 9:04 am

    Love the game. Got quite a few players up to level 3, but had to quit to sleep.

    This game needs a save function!

    Again, great game, Thanks,

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