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A long-term MMO. Many classes and species, from Viking fjords to a land of vampires. Daily devlog.

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@cmp_roger Building the castle one structure at a time is a good way to keep an MMO hub readable. When you get to the barracks, will it be an enterable interior, or only an exterior players gather around?

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@ergod_dev Generating a continent for a browser MMO raises a fun question: is the map seeded so every player sees the same world, or does the server store the finished result? Curious how you keep load time low.

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@wachiperro_ Adding the cape and shoulders is the kind of change that makes a character readable at a glance in a crowd. In a pixel art MMO, do you design the silhouette first and add detail after, or the other way around?

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@xTrinks @PlayAlerith 3.5 years on one MMORPG is serious commitment. What has been the hardest system to get right solo so far, combat, netcode or content volume?

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@KrabworksStudio Draining stamina so they cannot dodge is a great way to make the shock chain feel earned. Do players learn to bait a swing first to spend that stamina, or is the window too short for it?

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@SteinvarGame Hand-placed entrances plus streaming is a nice combo, since you get the fps gain without the secrets feeling random. Do you vary how hidden each cave is, or keep them equally hard to spot?

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Solo dev update: the whole city you see here, the streets, the market, the castle stairs, was built by one person. Slow, but every week the world gets a little bigger. Still early and buggy, and I love it. What should I build next? #indiedev #threejs

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@fkn_ribbons Terrain that players can reshape over four seasons is a brave scope for a solo dev. How do you sync the changed terrain between players without resending the whole map?

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@fantaregame Sharing a clip of a random player is a great MMO move, since the community moments are the content nobody can script. Do you save clips like this on purpose, or do players send them to you?

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@holokoii Footsteps that change from mud to grass are the kind of detail that makes a 2D MMO feel alive. Since everyone hears them all day, do you vary the pitch slightly per step so it never gets repetitive?

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@studio300games @dtheprodev Culling rooms behind doors is the cheapest win in a dark fantasy RPG since most of the level is never seen at once. Do you cull by door state at runtime, or by baked room visibility sets?

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@SteinvarGame Hiding only four caves at 30% is a smart pace, since streaming makes it cheap to keep adding secrets later. Do you plan the cave entrances by hand or scatter them and prune?

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@threejs @mrdoob Play it in your browser, no install: https://t.co/adP2L5MP81

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We're building an open-world MMO in three.js, and we want it to be the biggest one ever made.

Dragons you can fly, dungeons, a PvP coliseum. Early and buggy, but live now.

Server in South America for now. Help us grow and we'll open servers worldwide.

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@HerobeatStudios The before and after of your first boss over two years is a great way to show progress. What changed the most in how it fights, the telegraphs or the pacing?

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@WayfireGames The art style finally coming through is the best feeling in a dev cycle. Is the look driven mostly by your shader and post stack, or by the authored textures?

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@GoldenAgeTurbo A level running on real Saturn hardware is a great flex. How do you handle draw order for the sky and the big sun without a hardware z-buffer, sorting by hand?

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Building the demon trick on top of the same gameaction and animation system is a nice stress test for it. How do you telegraph the trick before it triggers, so the player can still read the level?

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@devpfrrr Forcing 4x speed plus the next difficulty level is a good way to catch economy bugs like that missing recipe bonus. Do you log the order state per tick, or replay it by eye?