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World's First Gold Farming RPG

Posted by Zonk on from the dispensing-with-the-illusion dept.

SlashRating© Lambda slashdottit! tm Kevlar_Sindome writes "Verse Studios announced today that they have officially 'changed everything', with the release of their first game: Fool's Gold. Fool's Gold lets players take on the role of the heroic gold farmer seeking profit from gold hungry characters who seem to have an unlimited amount of money to spend, but never enough time to spend it. Touted as the first Gold Farming Role Playing Game ( GF-RPG ), Verse Studios hopes to get a jump on starting a new game genre. Fool's Gold is free for download off the Verse Studios website."

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  1. Not as thorough as Progress Quest by Jerf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Progress Quest is even more successful at extracting the core essence of MMORPGs, and distilling them down to their bare essentials in a way that enhances the playability of the game to the ultimate degree. Well, measured along one dimension, at least.

    (And it's not specifically an April Fools joke; download it and try it out, the executable is real. Windows app, generally runs absolutely perfectly in Wine.)

    1. Re:Not as thorough as Progress Quest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      I love ProgressQuest, but it does get a bit static after you've played a couple of games. I like Role Playing Game better; it's basically ProgressQuest with more entropy. And it's open-source!