{"id":661,"date":"2010-05-01T11:20:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2010-05-01T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T11:20:26","slug":"there-would-be-still-interest-in-a-dungeon-crawler-like-dungeon-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/there-would-be-still-interest-in-a-dungeon-crawler-like-dungeon-master\/","title":{"rendered":"There would be still interest in a dungeon-crawler like Dungeon Master?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember some time ago I posted some screenshots and even a video of a game called Towers Of Destiny. It was a first person 3d rpg, both outdoor and indoor. However, the project has been put on hold, for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the expenses needed to make a decent-looking game would have been very high, probably x2-x3 times the amount needed to make one of my current games (VN, dating sims, etc)<\/li>\n<li>a compromise would have been to go for a less detailed art. But I had fear that it would look crappy, even if judging by Spiderweb Games success, people playing old-school RPGs aren&#8217;t much interested in top-quality art<\/li>\n<li>was still a lot of work &#8211; when you make something in 3d, there are many more problems than when doing a simple 2d game. Compatibility, performances, bugs, different programming tecniques required and so on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But now I was wondering if would actually make sense to make such a kind of game. Would YOU play\/buy a sort of Dungeon Master 2010? \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I liked those games a lot, but I&#8217;ve played them when I was a teenager, so I&#8217;m not really sure if I would play them now. There was Might &amp; Magic V on sale at GoG and I didn&#8217;t even buy it (also because I don&#8217;t have much time to play games anymore). Still, if I have to choose between the tilemap games (think about RPGMaker XP games) or a first person indoor\/outdoor game like Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder and so on, I would have no doubt which one to pick (the second!).<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think about hiring someone to code a simple 2d dungeon crawler game, maybe even in flash so can be played directly in the browser. But is not that easy, even the art required is a lot and needs to be planned carefully (you have to build up the visual with several layered images\/tiles for the floor\/walls\/ceiling).<\/p>\n<p>It sounds complex? It is \ud83d\ude42 Bah maybe I should hire people to do something else like a classic wargame or another card rpg game (since I love those).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember some time ago I posted some screenshots and even a video of a game called Towers Of Destiny. It was a first person 3d rpg, both outdoor and indoor. However, the project has been put on hold, for several reasons: the expenses needed to make a decent-looking game would have been very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,14,22,24],"tags":[125,124],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics","category-indie-life","category-roleplay-games","category-tower-of-destiny","category-winter-wolves-games","tag-marketing-research","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}