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Posted by Blue Pyro (Member # 10675) on :
 
I read something on OSC maybe creating an Ender's game video game.

Where do you think it would start out? Trying to send messages from God to your classmates?

What would be included? and where would it end? after you discover that you just whacked the buggers and broke down?

What kind of format would it be, an rpg game where you pick up friends, or would it just be like "starwars battlefront" trying to win all the battleroom games?
 
Posted by Hookt_Un_Fonix (Member # 10094) on :
 
Personally I would like to see it sit up as a FPS, with the layered stories of a MMO. I think it would be easy to adapt and evolve into later stories from the Ender 'Verse. It would be awesome to go through each of the story arches, maybe even start as a pilot or marine in the first and second bugger war, and earn unlock to play a battle schooler. Then the final for the first game woudl be to plan or act in plans for the final bugger assault as part of THE "jeesh".

I personally like the MMO concept though I rarely play, because to me they are missing that interaction of a first person format, but this might just be the right game to blend them. It would also be nice to be able to interact with other people through data pads and the like. Clans can form and we could all have real good time reliving the books we all know and love.
 
Posted by Cyronist (Member # 9691) on :
 
A lot of these topics come up... Almost every option has been talked about.

http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/main/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004635

http://www.hatrack.com/ubb/main/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=004759
 
Posted by Blue Pyro (Member # 10675) on :
 
oh. i feel quite stupid for not looking around on this website before posting a thread...

Well, thanks cyronist for telling me
 
Posted by Cyronist (Member # 9691) on :
 
No biggie, happens occasionally.
 
Posted by Zakan (Member # 10788) on :
 
Actually, there is a text-based game based on Ender's Game, and has been for almost a decade. AnsibleMOO is a small but very active community of folks enjoying a custom-built version of Battle School, with roleplaying and organized battles between six active armies in a functional Battle Room. Feel free to stop by and check us out!

www.ansiblemoo.org

-Zakan, RolePlay Staff Head and Administrator, AnsibleMoo
 
Posted by Steve_G (Member # 10101) on :
 
Hey Zakan

I came across AnsibleMOO about 5 years ago. I walked in as a guest and walked around all over in the Battleschool looking around. Apparantly I had been the first to do this with a guest account, since everybody started asking how I got in and what I was up to. after that I started a real account, but the format wasn't really for me so I didn't stick with it.

One thing I never understood was how the battles work. All I ever got from the players was the 'battles are so cool' type comments, but nobody would explain how the game play actually worked in a text environment. I'm still baffled by that.
 
Posted by Cheyan (Member # 10789) on :
 
Steve_G,

(I'm not Zakan, but hey, I've been on Ansible for 8 years and 8 months, I figure I can try to explain. I might even remember you...)

The battles are fought in a fully-coded room with shooting, movement, and looking-around commands. They're a bit scaled down, with only six (sometimes as many as twelve or as few as three) players on each side for most battles, though people roleplay as if they're part of formations and doing things with their toons.

You can move in three dimensions, though of course since we're pre-Ender the gates are in the north and south walls, not the floor and ceiling.

Probably the reason you didn't get a lot of explanation is that it is kind of hard to explain, and even harder to catch the excitement that tends to go with them - and if you mentioned discomfort with MOO/MUD-style RPing, people might have been unsure how to express what they liked about the battleroom.
 
Posted by Salsa (Member # 10530) on :
 
If they make a game it will probably only be for pc. Also, games in the battleroom would be awesome! I can already imagine floating around in zero gravity as bean or ender. haha.

But i think it would be cool if the game was ender's game/shadow and then shadow of the hegemon combined.
 
Posted by Iarn Greiper (Member # 10731) on :
 
I really can't imagine a game with you playing as Ender coming off too well, since everything he does is pretty much covered in the book. Now..maybe an RPG-type thing where you are NOT Ender would work..

Also, I'm a lot newer to ansible than either Cheyan or Zakan...but I still find it pretty cool.

edit- Also, where did you read that there would be a game?

[ August 26, 2007, 02:48 PM: Message edited by: Iarn Greiper ]
 


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