interactive source game

Like a wiki-game?

It would definitely need a 'rollback' feature - I can imagine several people building their excellent would only to have some asshole kiddies come in and 'pwn' it all.

Oh - and it'd be unfeasible on current platforms. The server would have to cache all the music, graphics and such and pump them down ot the client when they change.

[edited by - downgraded on June 11, 2004 3:18:24 PM]

Sounds like that Second Life game.

So what happens when I go into your cool, functional castle and then do basically "rm -rf *" on it? Or, presuming you had a set of permissions, I clomp my 200-foot tall rolling cube into your lobby, uninvited? Or let''s say I make my side of the street a bright, glowly green. Or worse, I write a peice of code or draw a zero-length tile that causes the engine to crash whenever someone walks into my garden? Or hell, even more subtle, let''s say I create a fantasy castle and then you walk your spaceman into it, and I go ballistic because you''re ruining the setting?

Let''s not forget that this stuff would need to be sent across the wire. I know SL does this, and I''m sure the game is probably quite slow on anything less than fast broadband.

I know it''s a nice, warm-fuzzy idea to think, "Hey, the gamers could build their own worlds!" But I just don''t see it working out that well. Some games have limited success with this, like SL or Furcadia, but dunno.

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Well, I start thinking about reality when I actually plan on making something. I won''t limit my brainstorming in any way.

Filtered down the reality pipeline, this SecondLife thing might be this VERY idea! This is just like the time I invented peanut butter and jelly in one jar.... and then found out it already existed!


That SecondLife game looks really familiar... wasn''t there something like a 2d version of that a while ago (like 6 years)?

Most MUDs and MOOs and whatnot have allowed the users to re-shape the world since the mid-70s. It''s an interesting niche phenomenon.

However, as it turns out, most people want to show up, and enjoy themselves. They really don''t want to learn how to apply make-up for various lighting conditions; they want to watch the movie. Similarly, they couldn''t care less about harmonic structure; they want to hear a good sound-track for the game they play.