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[Aoi]

On speedrunners:

"A game designer painstakingly carves a beautiful sculpture out of wood, first chiseling it out of a raw block and then gradually rounding off any rough edges, making sure it works when it's viewed from any angle. The speedrunner takes that sculpture and they look it over carefully from top to bottom, from every angle, and deeply understand it and they appreciate all the work that went into the design. All the strengths or the weak points, and then having understood it perfectly... they break it over their knee. And that's why I love speedrunners." -Bennett Foddy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGU5_UUalPA)

[Sime]

I wish  open world games used interoperable assets and shared the same physics engine, whereby  these worlds could exist interactively within the same galaxy and share each others resources.  For example, it ought to be possible to build a space cruiser in Kerbin and fly Kerbals a few thousand light years across the galaxy to Morrowind for a spot of tourism and scientific experiments.

[Mathel]

Well, if you fly to morrowind, there is nothing to stop you from also flying to Cyrodiil and Skyrim.

It sounds interesting. I add that in order to do this, you should have a way to travel through time too. In cases where multiple games take place in the same continuity, but assets from one would be nonsensical in the time of others. (Thinking Oblivion gates, Ministry of Justice in Vivec, and Ulfric Stormcloak). So for planets containing more than one game, which are at different times, you would choose at which time you appear, thus selecting which assets appear.

[Aoi]

That'd be really interesting for things that ostensibly exist in the same universe but are (at least superficially) disparate in theme-- like Conan the Barbarian and Cthulhu.

[Frumple]

I seem to recall someone tried something like that at some point. A (janky/low budget) MMO with inter-world transit that led to worlds with significantly different gameplay mechanics, meant to be moved between and whatnot. Can't recall what happened to it, though...

[Naturegirl1999]

I seem to recall someone tried something like that at some point. A (janky/low budget) MMO with inter-world transit that led to worlds with significantly different gameplay mechanics, meant to be moved between and whatnot. Can't recall what happened to it, though...

Do you remember what it was called?

[Frumple]

Not even the least little bit, otherwise I would have mentioned it

[JoshuaFH]

Game idea that I just thought of, it's a rough idea that probably isn't practical at all, but I wanted to write it down:

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An MMO-style game with a continuous world that experiences daily, automatic balance patches. Now, these balance patches aren't actually striving for 'balance', everything would be getting buffed and nerfed semi-randomly, and to the players these would be senseless, but all these buffs and nerfs would be tracked in-game, allowing long-time players to see that the patches follow gradual trends that can be predicted, and follow something resembling yearly cycles. The idea behind it would be that players would always be needing to switch up their strategies, and allowing for planners to prepare for predicted balance changes in the future.

Though now that I write it down, that kind of game would be probably be really unfun unless the game world was a big sandbox that made no promises about prepared, curated content.

[Naturegirl1999]

A sandbox world like that would be interesting, I think

[Aoi]

That reminds me of what I think was a Ludum Dare entry where the entire "game" was basically a patch note generator that would spit things out ranging from the reasonable "Thrown pies no longer cause fatal damage." to the rather quirky "Flooding will no longer cause bananas to spontaneously erupt into flames upon consumption."

[Naturegirl1999]

That reminds me of what I think was a Ludum Dare entry where the entire "game" was basically a patch note generator that would spit things out ranging from the reasonable "Thrown pies no longer cause fatal damage." to the rather quirky "Flooding will no longer cause bananas to spontaneously erupt into flames upon consumption."

I wonder what evolutionary events would cause bananas to combust during floods?

[Frumple]

There are chemicals that ignite on contact with water, iirc, or something like that. Oxygen and hydrogen are both, uh. Pretty reactive at the end of the day, from what I understand. It'd take some really weird stuff happening for a fruit to produce it, like... at all. Especially in an environment that even remotely resembles what has produced what we call bananas.

A wildly different environment that somehow produces life without relying heavily on water could maybe see it happen, though. The fruit in question just wouldn't exactly be a banana anymore, and questionably even a fruit.

Alternatively the flood is, like, a flood of molten metal or somethin'. If it's flooding with something besides water it may be incredibly reasonable for current reality bananas to combust when flooded.

[Egan_BW]

Nah, it's possible that floods are seasonal, and the boomnanas explode when they touch the water in order to spread their seeds.

[Aoi]

Nah, it's possible that floods are seasonal, and the boomnanas explode when they touch the water in order to spread their seeds.

Kind of like the sandbox tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c0Uu04RpF4

(There's a few in my old neighborhood that were grown as ornamentals. It's always interesting when "ripe" ones fell from the trees and hit the ground...)

[Naturegirl1999]

Nah, it's possible that floods are seasonal, and the boomnanas explode when they touch the water in order to spread their seeds.

Kind of like the sandbox tree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c0Uu04RpF4

(There's a few in my old neighborhood that were grown as ornamentals. It's always interesting when "ripe" ones fell from the trees and hit the ground...)

I’m glad I don’t live near these