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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

A Foreign Place

A new idea for a game. This is an expirimental MMO which has no description or help files. Players are thrown into the world as shapes, the whole look and feel of the game is very ambiguos. There are no NPCs save for a very few choice "Masters" which teach skillsets, some combative, some not. Players are randomly placed with a "race" (i.e. a shape) and are unable to communicate with other "races." So when a square player comes across a triangle it might choose to attack it, unknowingly attacking another player. The player being attacked will also reason that he/she is being attacked by an NPC. Each of the "races" speaks a different language, and at first not even the player speaking the language will be able to interpret the symbols. As the game progresses, of course, things will begin to fall into place, but in the beginning there was chaos and so in the beginning of this strange new world there will be chaos. The first realization, for instance, will be when players die. They will find themselves "reborn" as another race, with some of their former skills still in tact but in a different shape. Players grow old and die also, whither from age. A player could not stay in a form for more than two months because they would grow old and die. Great epidemics will sweep the peoples. They will find themselves dying and being reborn in an alien world. As one can guess, many will give up. Which is why it will be necessary to allow tomes to be left behind. Players will find sacred tomes and be able to write their own and, some day, some brave individual may figure out the puzzle by exploring every inch of the world. What does one call such an epic game?

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