VR Designs

Management, People and Possibilities

Ideas are starting to firm up and coalesce for the next game. Or games as now that DC Barbarossa is out (we are both still working on new features for it), Vic is free to focus once again on Shadow Empires.

What I’d like to talk about here is how the coming game will portray people and the management there-off.

There are three basic approaches. The player as the person in charge (the ‘God’ model), the player working within a hierarchy of command (the ‘Superiors and Subordinates’ model) and the player as the recipient of orders from above (the ‘I am a minion’ model).

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Work continues at a steady pace on DC3 : Barbarossa but we are starting to give some thought to what comes next.

While there are plenty of obvious candidate conflicts that would benefit from a similar treatment we are pondering something much more fundamental.

Take the following. It’s straight out of my head and highlights four key design elements.

Fun is obvious. No point making a game if it isn’t fun. The higher up the fun scale you can climb the better.

Replayability is important although these days a lot of games are designed to be played once and then forgotten about. Reliving the game through multiple play throughs isn’t as important as the ‘experience’. Once it’s done, it’s done. Move onto the next shiny light.

Is this something we’d like to emulate?

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