Other games similar to CANTR?

[QueenofBlades]

No, of course not. You are meant to go for your uncles and father.

[Russell of Los Angeles]

I read this whole thread so that I could be a responsible poster... and now I have to follow that post.

I'm 374 in the queue. :p I'm hoping (read: imagining/pretending) that there's going to be a flood of new characters reaching breeding age. This will result in speeding up my wait to such a degree that there will be a shortage of new players to fill in as babies.

[Russell of Los Angeles]

If I were making a game,

- And if it were like FTO, I'd allow the first few generations of players to spawn directly into the world before turning on the baby making. This would speed up the queue, and hopefully reduce the unpleasantries of incest.

- I'd give it a mythological theme that makes an attempt to explain the anomalies created by the dynamic between the player experience and the character experience, or the UI with the game world.

- I would not claim that it provides a completely blank slate for character and society creation.

[SekoETC]

If I made a game where people were born into families, I'd make a separate waiting area for people who haven't been born into the game yet and they could learn about the game mechanics and figure out if it's the kind of a game they'd like to play. When people are born into the real world, they would die in or vanish from the waiting world, leaving their items and resources behind. Maybe the other world would develop its own culture.

[Dudel]

Thats rather cleaver Seko, you could run tests in the waiting world too. It would prevent from doing anything randomly drastic to the "core world" and allow you something, as a developer, to poke at as well.

On another note, I forget what my cue number is.

Yesterday it was at 157 or so, doubt it has moved much.

[Russell of Los Angeles]

If I made a game where people were born into families, I'd make a separate waiting area for people who haven't been born into the game yet and they could learn about the game mechanics and figure out if it's the kind of a game they'd like to play. When people are born into the real world, they would die in or vanish from the waiting world, leaving their items and resources behind. Maybe the other world would develop its own culture.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

What I've learned from Cantr though is that the conditions have to be just right for in game culture to appear, and it depends more on the player base than the game developer.

EDIT: let me rephrase that last thing. It depends a lot on the player base, and is rare.

[chase02]

If I were making a game,

- And if it were like FTO, I'd allow the first few generations of players to spawn directly into the world before turning on the baby making. This would speed up the queue, and hopefully reduce the unpleasantries of incest

Oddly enough, this is almost the exact model Reveri.es is based on. Although, it has a few unique twists on the above.

I assume this was also the idea behind FTO being in open beta - that once the queue is sufficiently emptied and enough of a mature breeding population is established it will then move out of beta? Pure speculation, mind.

[Russell of Los Angeles]

Woo! I'm now 373 in the queue, down from 374 just 6 hours ago.

This is the craziest way to kick off a game I've ever seen.

Seko's idea of some sort of before-life limbo realm for the unborn to hang out in is looking better and better.

[QueenofBlades]

... and now I have to follow that post.

I resent that.

Also: 94. YAY!

[Peanut]

I'm at 50 now.

So close yet so far away

[Russell of Los Angeles]

omg the queue hasn't moved today. i'll get to play in August 2010.

[chase02]

I'm 5 and able to breed. Heh.

[Peanut]

I'm 5 and able to breed. Heh.

Start popping them out like a machine gun please!

[SekoETC]

I got lost in some caves.

[chase02]

I'm 5 and able to breed. Heh.

Start popping them out like a machine gun please!

her mother would kill her. she reckons 16 is a good age. BAHAHAHA.