November 2008

• The Future of Quests cruise
  It's too quiet round here, so:
  
  The number and quality of quests in large scale POW projects has been
  sreadily increasing as each new product attempts to improve over its
  predecessor. It's fair to say this is one of the major time sinks for
  such projects. Additionally, players are becoming jaded with the static
  quest system and an unchanging world.
  
  It is obvious this cannot keep on going - the manpower required would be
  ridiculous. Something must change...but what? Here are some possibilities:
  
  a) Nothing - Quest writing stagnates, and current popularity of POWs
  collapses.
  b) Sandboxes - EVE, and to an extent Warhammer's PvP let player's
  generate their own quests out of the world they're given.
  c) Procedural - An automatic generation of quests. This is what I'm
  working on currently.
  d) Community - CoH is taking the first towards this, by opening up what
  are effectively the developers mission creation tools to the players.
  
  Please discuss, comment and criticise, in which ever order you prefer :P
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