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MMORPG Tycoon

June 10th, 2008 (Visited 2483 times) Tags: indie games

Ever wanted to run an MMORPG? Well, now you can without having to do the pesky step of actually creating one.

MMORPG Tycoon is an indie game written for a game contest. You have a procedurally generated MMO, and your job is to keep the forum posters happy.

I’m downloading it now… watch me suck at it.

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Pentharian said on June 10th, 2008 at 10:39 am:
For you, that is quite the metagame. Maybe you ought to try your hand at “World of World of Warcraft” Via the Onion, of course.
Eolirin said on June 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm:
The download link doesn’t seem to be working here… did you manage to tank the poor guy’s webserver by posting this Raph?
cliff said on June 10th, 2008 at 12:22 pm:
Yeah, started taking a look at this last night. Right now, I haven’t really got the hang of playing it, but it certainly looks like it could be a lot of fun.
Aldure said on June 11th, 2008 at 10:23 am:
You dont have to play it, actually only need to know little about it, just keep the forum peeps happy if I read that right, lol
Ian Bogost said on June 11th, 2008 at 12:54 pm:
Forget the game, the simulated vector engine is rockin’!
Michael W said on June 13th, 2008 at 2:43 pm:
watch me suck at it.

Well I don’t know about that Raph, you were pretty good about it pre-launch to SWG.

Before you fed poor Thunderheart to the dogs. I guess that’s your way of getting revenge for all those essays arguing against single character servers
Guy Russon said on June 13th, 2008 at 4:36 pm:
It took me about 2 hours to create a MMORPG with a constantly growing subscriber base and average satisfaction of around 4.
Didn’t manage to control “Forum Buzz” though. Perhaps I should have just made my forums subscriber only and handed out forum bans to all the nay sayers?

What interested me most though (and what I was hoping for comment on here?) was some of the basic assumptions made with regard to the MMORPG design elements and what keeps subscribers happy?
Morgan Ramsay said on June 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm:
Heh, MMORPG Tycoon crashed. I’m sure there’s something clever to be said.
B4z4Ru5 said on June 17th, 2008 at 9:04 am:
Love the game. Got quite a few players up to level 3, but had to quit to sleep.

This game needs a save function!

Again, great game, Thanks,