Looking for input for our next BBS game. reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:12 We're developing another one at the moment. We've already taken some notes from folks based on our first two games (less reading, quickkey responses, less 'out of the game' puzzle finding) But I'd like to know what you guys consider your favorite games and why. ours are in the LORD meets quest style games drawing inspiration from Skyrim, Breath of the Wild, Zork and Fallout as well as the Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games... so with that in mind as a model, what features would you like from your favorite BBS games incorporated into our next game? Pit style battles? BRE style mining operations? We'd like to know what you guys would like to see in a game and see if we can figure out a way to incorporate it into our next one! Play our games at bcrgames.com:31337 or by connecting via any of the many bbs systems which carry the games server! Thanks! Shooter/DR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kirkman14 · 2017-08-01 19:14 I just added your BCR server to Guardian of Forever two days ago. Been checking out Freedom Train. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DavidJohnYVR · 2017-08-01 19:21 Something not turn based (lord) an more like a live realm like mud, lord is boring. Like once u know what keys to pres you don't even need to read or look at anything. I like survival games like staying warm, finding food, shelter, crafting, day night cycles, player vs environment, I also like crafting. Maybe even procedural generation And of course pvp Also less comical, Also bro I got your email about ansi work, and I plan to reply soon, but basically I'm not sure what time lines you have and or how much I'll be able to complete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-08-01 19:26 I don't mind comical, I like it when a game in general has its funny moments imo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:29 Man that was meant for max originally. But ive got the ansi covered on this one! Freedom train was much more involved in the battles. Had a lot more to do there. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:30 Also have you checked my games out? They all have day night cycles, crafting, finding food, player vs environment etc. Maybe check them out then come back and see what u think? Sounds like u didnt really try the other ones yet, which I dont blame ya! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:30 Right on dude, thank you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:31 I do as well. I find myself being more serious in the games and having to remind myself to add the comedy in. I love the lucasarts games and sierra games for this reason ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-08-01 19:32 I like the PvP arena of the last two games you did and the mining part of Freedom/battling random NPCs for money Only thing I want to see is having the Colonel npc have a bigger role in the next game lol but that's up to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:33 To continue on this note, I dig the live realm thing. The game we are working on now is in realtime, so hopefully you will dig that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:33 The colonel is gonna have his biggest role yet in the new one. Thank you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:34 I want to get the pvp arena to work live which is what we are working on now. Thanks for the input! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-08-01 19:35 Oh sweet awesome! You're welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 19:36 Do you mean like if I walk in a room with you, you can just attack me and I have to attack back quickly or i'll get killed? So the attacks happen in real time? If so, that is what we are attempting to do with the new one ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-08-01 19:40 Cool that'll be fun and you're welcome! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DavidJohnYVR · 2017-08-01 20:10 Like if someone moved into your room or area and went to attack you, you would get notified that they walked into the room or are in the room and a message saying they have moved to attack you, and then after that message, since it's real time, you have a brief moment or two to engage in combat as well or flee or use an item or whatnot, etc. I haven't found the game you are talking about that you made, all I found was some game about being in a hotel with room numbers or something, I did not notice any crafting in that and Day and night, and then some other game wher ey move aorund and then suddenly get killed killed by Jason, I didn't play that game much as I didn't really understand what was happening but I didn't notice any of those game element s that I liked in that either. Are there more games I'm missing or just those two? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-08-01 20:19 The one with the hotel numbers is most likely Freedom Train, you start out in the apartments with the player and wife and kids. Then you're suppose to get the items from the drawers then you go down to the lobby, the Colonel will say something then you go to Liberty station I think then you gotta do a couple of quests like go back to the apartment and stuff before you have a breakdown and then the game starts I already beaten the game but I went back in and played around at times. Now I'm lvl 7 lol Edit: Oh I get the Jason part now lol that one is From Here To Eternity lol I also beaten that game. You go around looking for artifacts and after you have all 20 you go through the Coil and you beat the game and get a statue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 20:20 No thats them. Freedom Train with the hotel room is the one with crafting, mining and all that. But it is a story so you have to get into it and open up those parts of the game. The other one as well as Freedom Train both work on day night and enviornment cycles. Some things only happen at night and at certain times. The moon and stars are important in From Here to Eternity. My advice would be to try and understand what is going on with the games a little... they are adventure games. They are not MUDs so if you're looking for cookie cutter MUDs or something like that, these are not that. That being said there are plenty of folks who have completed them and can tell you more about them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 20:21 As for the battle system, I love it. Working on it being in the game! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DavidJohnYVR · 2017-08-01 21:10 No I defiantly don't want to play another mud, I don't even play MUDs now, MUDs don't take any skill. You just type attack skeleton and then watch, and then you do it again, zzzzz. I want something innovative like a new genre. I want something that takes strategy and skill and has a learning curve and such. I didn't get that far in freedom train, I'd recommend having. All gameplay elements and ideas from the beginning because I really like those types of game play and if I don't experience them right away I won't stick around. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- luvjOi · 2017-08-01 21:21 There is a storyline to Freedom Train like you have to defeat the bad guy Malin to beat the game and there's puzzles too you have to do before you even get to Malin and defeat him. Yeah there is the random battle thing but I don't find anything wrong with that. They are like the Pokémon Trainers if you will, you can defeat a Pokémon Trainer in the game in order to lvl up your Pokémon in order to beat the Pokémon game. It helps you along on the storyline. If you play it long enough you can get that storyline and figuring it out. Edit: I don't think it's a MUD either, really if you ask me it's more closer to the Pokémon games in that you can grind to get stronger in other to advance in the storyline and beat the game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-01 23:57 This is good to know. Freedom Train is very story driven, so I designed it like an experience. It unfolds as it goes on. Its so expansive it kinda killed me doing it but im very proud of it. But this is helpful. With the new one I intend to get people into the game very quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-02 00:02 This is good to know. Freedom Train is very story driven, so I designed it like an experience. It unfolds as it goes on. Its so expansive it kinda killed me doing it but im very proud of it. But this is helpful. With the new one I intend to get people into the game very quickly. But it is also building off of elements of the first game. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L1th0 · 2017-08-02 00:51 Make a Game of Thrones type game modeled after the Exitilus door game where you can join a realm and battle it out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2017-08-02 20:35 I really dig the fighting mechanics in Clans, very similar to older Final Fantasy games. I'd love to see something like this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-02 22:18 Great suggestion! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2017-08-04 03:24 Hey Shooter, btw, the door you've written so far, "From Here To Eternity" - is that just going to be hosted by you? No chance for other people to run the door on their BBSes? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-04 10:52 It's hosted on the bcr games server... if you want to host it all u have to do is point a menu option to bcrgames.com port 31337. The reason i've done this is because my games are written in wcCode which is Wildcat native, and it allows me to update them as well as increases the player base. I'm open to others running the games on their bbs'es tho... but this way it assures folks that multiplayer is happening ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2017-08-04 21:02 Ah, gotcha. Cool! What language do you plan to use for the next game? Also wcCode? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-08-04 21:08 Yeah, as it will go on the games server. I'd love to expand to something else but for the moment i'm sticking to what I know... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bugtank · 2017-10-04 02:00 Bless u shooter. You know. I really loved the pit. And I would love to play it again! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ShooterJennings · 2017-10-04 02:43 I love the Pit. We got it up on the BBS. Trying some new things out to try and make the new game really fun for several people