Star Wars Galaxies: Creating a Dynamic World

SBFord

Raph Koster has updated his blog with a look at the creation of the dynamic world of Star Wars Galaxies. The post gives a detailed look at the complexities of creating a world from a design perspective.

Procedural environments have a sameyness to them, though. If you have the rules tweaked enough, they can actually add more detail than a human will, because the algorithm isn’t bound by time constraints. But you need quite a lot of fine detail variation on the rules to get back to where the terrain really does surprise you. Like the real world, most of it is fairly bland. (In fact, one of the classic videogame map tricks is to heighten slopes dramatically compared to the real world; after all, most real world slopes are much gentler than 30 degrees!)

Read the full post on Raph Koster's blog.

WolfClaws

And now I am littered with sweet memories and the pain of loss of a game that is far far away.

 

 

Thank you.

hercules

Makes me want to play

Caldrin

then go play

 

weky

Good old SWG!

Rhime

Raph rminded me about the best crafting/gathering system ever!

Krynt0k

I really wish I hadn't of lost all of my videos and screenshots of the game.

WarWitch

best housing ever

Best class system back when we had 40 or so classes and we could 2 and 1/2 total clases combined

Gone are the days of complex mmo gaming .

 

grimal

I want to read this because I was always fascinated by how they generated their worlds.   (Save it for later when I am not working).

imershon

Yeah STILL the best player housing ever - nothing else has eclipsed its granularity of control over item placement nor quantity or variety of items stored in each house - SOMEONE pick this back up OFFICIALLY..

Gkarr

Get on the emulators and play people! I have been playing this for years.

Jyiiga

Originally posted by Gkarr
Get on the emulators and play people! I have been playing this for years.

Last time I checked the emulators were either poorly populated or slated to be wiped several more times. I'm not sure I need to lose more beloved characters.

daltanious

All in all ... with Swtor I do not miss it a lot. 

Winn

Originally posted by daltanious
All in all ... with Swtor I do not miss it a lot. 

sorry it's not that i don't accept your opinion but that's talking apples and oranges.

 

other than that the EMU is running a very stable PreCU SWG and its devs are implementing more and more with way fewer wipes and restarts ever.