Posted by
timothy
on from the please-give-me-a-driving-simulator dept.
PokeBlor writes: "Arena.net has an article by Patrick Wyatt, a Blizzard ex, that goes into depth about the creation of multiplayer games, ranging from replayability to lag. He uses good examples from Starcraft and Warcraft 2, two games that Wyatt was a designer on."
> I can walk into nearly any deathmatch in the world and win with nearly no effort at all. Like Neo. Like God!
I have a game you'd really like. The UI consists of a "play" button and a high-scorers widget. Every time you click "play" you win, and your name is added to the top of the high-scorers list, with a score one point higher than the highest score already there.
This is the most fun game I've ever played. I've never lost! My score gets better every time I play!!! I feel like God's own God when I played it!!!!!
Well, he might be Neo. Only someone really anal retentive would make a bot. To keep himself regular, he has to eat a liquid diet of that slop they ate on the Nebudchanezzar.
Re:Unit VS Race Balancing
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Alsee
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· Score: 3, Funny
the new "Dotslash" race
No, I'm sorry but the "Dotslash" race is intrinsicly unbalanced. The Dotslash Effect incapacitates any target enemy.
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Thats pretty amusing, seeing how Blizzard has to sue people to stop them using their own lag-free networks cos the official ones suck so much!
Does he go into how to sue people who clone your game servers? Cause that's an important area of Blizzard's business right now too.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
True, most of the "social interaction" in online games consists of the following statements:
"You f***ing lagger! Relog now!"
"Stupid newbie!"
"WTF? You hacker!"
"Camper!!! Kick that f***ing camper!"
"0wned!"
"Ha ha you suck!"
"You #!@% Q#% @!#%$ piece of @#%$!"
> I can walk into nearly any deathmatch in the world and win with nearly no effort at all. Like Neo. Like God!
I have a game you'd really like. The UI consists of a "play" button and a high-scorers widget. Every time you click "play" you win, and your name is added to the top of the high-scorers list, with a score one point higher than the highest score already there.
This is the most fun game I've ever played. I've never lost! My score gets better every time I play!!! I feel like God's own God when I played it!!!!!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Well, he might be Neo. Only someone really anal retentive would make a bot. To keep himself regular, he has to eat a liquid diet of that slop they ate on the Nebudchanezzar.
the new "Dotslash" race
No, I'm sorry but the "Dotslash" race is intrinsicly unbalanced. The Dotslash Effect incapacitates any target enemy.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.