I've recently been working on a game that builds the universe and world of the game on its own when it is run. A god gives birth to the universe, the universe gives birth to a pantheon of gods, who build and populate the world.
My aim is to give every character in this game a set of personality traits, a goal, and an intelligence rating. I hope to have the game govern itself by having the various creatures in it all pursuing their own motivations to the best of their ability however they prefer. I want to use this so the player can really feel how their actions have consequences for the characters around them. I want a farmer to stab you in the back because you trespassed in his garden when all he wanted was some peace and quiet.
My actual question is this; is this possible, and if not, what problems will prevent me from realizing my goals?
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 Aug 31 2019, 9:09 pm
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Aug 31 2019, 9:20 pm
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Lawpiecla1
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I realize this somehow ended up in the wrong section of the forum. Sorry about that.
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Almost everything is possible, lol. About your game, I think you can do it, the question is in time you can spend on it.
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I actually like the idea of a procedurally generated game world, that starts building itself when it first boots up. It could even include it's own unique name, so there could be more than one "world".
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It's possible, but you'll have to know how to make it possible.
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This mostly talks in terms of Unity, but should give you a bit of a sense of what might be involved in terms of procedurally generating terrain / NPCs / villages or other structures: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/JoshNewland/20150624/246897/ 2D_procedurally_generated_world_building_in_Unity.php
Usually the bit that sucks for someone who's not great at more complex algebra is the Perlin noise generation that a lot of articles on the internet will use to make this procedural generation happen. In BYOND, if I remember, there was a few libraries that could generate Perlin noise for you. The only that I could find from Google was: http://www.byond.com/developer/Hazman/Perlin There are also a bunch of BYOND forum posts that will touch on this subject: id:585163 id:1454734 Hope that helps a bit! You've definitely picked a big subject there. | |
From Evosim (which sourcecode I lost and am currently rebuilding a new version from scratch), I learned that highly interactive games like that could become tick-heavy and laggy depending on the size of the universe and if you want all the mobs to follow a certain behavior. Be ready to use tick_lag checks and add sleep(1) in case your game is running through too many procs.
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