Finished Battlemon Metaverse | Starfighter General

My metaverse game is done. I just have to test it. My aunt who now has cancer(why I rushed this) had a game we played 40 years ago. Instead of just giving me a gift like an atari2600 game, she’d give me a note. This note would explain how to get to another note”Behind the photograph of your Uncle Tony” or “Behind the dryer”. This would go on for a while, then we’d get our gift!

Fast forward to 9 years before Pokemon Go came out. I designed a game like Pokemon Go in parks where you fight monsters, get clues to treasure, or have to answer riddles, hot vs cold, and all sorts of crazy stuff with geo location… Then I sat it down and waited. See I know I could not win court cases about kids getting hurt outside, so I declined first movers so a legal team with big pockets could pave the presidents way… Otherwise it would be,”Jim, kids are getting run over because of your so called game, you pay fines and go to jail.”

Eventually my cousin who has special needs “Make a Wish Child”, who’s actually way cooler than me and isn’t slowed down by it much…. We talked,”Yo, you playin with Starwars toys(originals). Lets make a game like that, except we use your crayon art. You can tell your friends in school that you made a game.” We made it, I learned how to code server code, its like Hearthstone meets Pokemon Go, but wasn’t fully completed and I got distracted IRL by IRL distractions.

Recently my aunt’s cancer got worse so I knew I had to finish this! The quests go in one by one by me and people I trust. The first one I think will be around the suburbs of Pittsburgh tomorrow. It will be just text for starters, and I’ll add more possible nodes later: Combat/Quizz/treasure/unlockable only by key X/ unlockable only by variable Y/ kill z many enemies/etc/etc…

The game is Battlemon and I’ll post a comment of the link since some places don’t like em… The metaverse thing came in a few minutes ago, and will build. I’ll try and get an official patch to everyone on Android Playstore soon after my aunt alpha tests the new updates. You could be collecting Battlemon now in prep for big time, you keep em.

2) Networking that pushes the envelope where no networking has gone before. People laugh at this like it is impossible to innovate, but I marketed it to Midway in 2003, and they laughed too. Meanwhile it was working in house as a Tekken style(3d fighter) MMO with part of what today is known as rollback code. Midway's manager was mocking what is today's standard thinking rollback and such was impossible. Infinite action players same zone, limit only by video card and other hardware, networking ain't a limiting thing anymore.

4) First MMO designed for late game. Everyone enjoys mmos until power capped and then get bored.
There is no power cap to begin with(just a log log logarithmic progression), but there are many many many other end game design elements to make it so want to keep playing end game! The grind is there, but better and more fun things are around too! You can build up a super big fleet and it get destroyed to pieces and you start over again. You have a power floor level that you can't go below so you're always building permanent power, but temporary spikes of power surges and galactic dominance for fleeting moments give a rush. The larger the fleet, the larger the fleeting moment.

8) PVP bounty system. Everyone can PVP at all times. Stakes are low if your ship explodes. If you get attacked without declaring aggressive mode or an opponent to duel, the aggressor gets a bounty on their head in accordance with the damage dealt to you. If this bounty gets high enough, and they get caught, they will be put in jail. When they log on for the next few hours or days, their character can play only in jail, and visitors come see him and such. Enjoy roleplaying being a prison inmate, or just use a different crew member on your account. Developing many crew members is a thing for when you fly capital ships.

10) Omnipotent roleplay: Earn your right into a a movie anime by great roleplay! Live game masters in about 6-12 months after the content updates roll through. We bias people with Founder's RP tokens some and good manner role players who stay in character(we have chat logs and even game logs). This promotes good role play even when not live GMing. Who doesn't want to bring their friends to a movie and surprise em with their own character in it? So stay in character for a better game! https://www.starfightergeneral.com/live-role-play/

Punky-Pulpy action, Levels, stats, skills, talents, items, fleet amassing, and great apocalyptic space plots, trippy Lewis Carrol level Mad Hatter humor along the way. It's really weird to see how this synergizes from a game design standpoint. Players naturally want to level up and power up... That's the twink min maxer in all of us. So when humor, plots, intrigue, or NPCs getting your blood boiling to action vs them happens, you get stoked, rewarded, happy and tossed off your axis. Then when resolved, you look back and get serious about powering up. The core of a RPG gamer is always powering up, it is something we can't get rid of, but the core of a game designer is to get you out of a spreadsheet mindset temporarily... And then you appreciate both more. So tacky humor, along serious pulp action and serious leveling up game mechanics... It is like a symphony of fun.