@Hummel
I know how client side mods and server side modifications run, as I’ve developed some modifications to major communities. This was simply a discussion on where they want to take the game:
– Community driven content: community abstracts the game and builds on it
– Studio driven content: wonderstruck engineers the game solely
The initial allows creative freedom, much like a sandbox game entails, and would lead to a prolonged interest in the game.
By going off of why @Rob noted above, I conceptualize OO as:
– Each region is its own world located on 1 machine.
– As the world is procedurally generated, new portals appear. When one portal is created, a new world is created, following big O notation as n^2.
It seems Wonderstruck is going in the direction that Mojang realized a few years after the release of Minecraft, with the introduction of Realms. Private small servers rented from the game designer, as a way to fund a project post release.
TL;DR
So as I see it, Wonderstruck is taking a blend of:
– World of Warcraft, where there is a reliable post-release income to fund future projects (selling private servers to players versus monthly membership fee)
– Minecraft, where sandbox and private servers drive user generated content
Thoughts?
