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noreply@blogger.com (T. D. Fuhringer) 425 days ago
I've been working on an idea for a single player epic RPG. I've made a list of the top twenty things I'd like to see in my game. Here they are: The Must Haves: 1) A huge, full and detailed gameworld that is different every time you play (procedural generation) 2) Freeform, non-linear gameplay. Complete the main quest at your own pace, or ignore it entirely 3) Open skill tree for maximum character customization 4) Materials-based item crafting. If it can drop, it can be crafted 5) Quests are different every time you play (dynamic, scripted procedural quests) The Wants: 6) Dynamic gameworld that changes based on the player's actions 7) Emergent quests (unscripted quests, see #6) 8) Guilds 9) Crafting mini-game that's short but fun 10) Mutiple main quest endings 11) Potion Crafting 12) Scroll Crafting 13) Pets 14) Allies 15) Diplomacy 16) Mounts and mounted combat 17) Player owned houses and ships 18) Player owned businesses 19) Other 'heroes' that complete ...
noreply@blogger.com (T. D. Fuhringer) 488 days ago
Back in the fall of 1995, a game caught my eye at my local PC store and after being seduced by the (very colourful) back of the box, I had to have it. That game was Heroes of Might and Magic, a game that consumed countless hours of my early twenties, a time when I should have been out either getting laid or getting a career. Instead I was gleefully stomping around the world of Enroth with Kastore and Yog and all the other Heroes, pretending to be bad-ass. Nerd Power! Around the same time I also discovered Warlords II Deluxe, a game with similar gameplay and setting but very different execution than Heroes. The game maps in Warlords weren't as busy as those in Heroes but there were more cities and more armies and there were ruins. Oh how I loved sending my hero into ruins and hoping madly that he wouldn't die at the hands of some Troll, Spectre or worst of all, Dragon. Between the Heroes and Warlords series those years were a full, rich oyster of fantasy gaming goodness. ...
noreply@blogger.com (T. D. Fuhringer) 729 days ago
Holy cow, An actual post! In the time since my last post, so much has happened. My uncle Albert Harris passed away from cancer. He was 59. My mother spent five weeks in the hospital with a kidney infection that led to septicemia. They're hopeful about her recovery. My boss who was supposed to leave for Poland, hasn't. She's got a lump in her throat which they'll be doing a biopsy on shortly. Life has not gone according to plan. In other news, soon after I shot my video of Frodo, I got some great footage of my friend's bulldog, Ginger. Well I've finally assembled it and am posting it here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! _____ Next Post: Spoils of War - a fantasy TBS Games Retrospective Previous Post: Irony, Thy Name is Silence?
noreply@blogger.com (T. D. Fuhringer) 780 days ago
Oddly, the less frequently I post, the more visitors I get every week. I have no idea why. Also my page views have skyrocketed. The less I say, the more you read. Bizzarre. I'm thinking with my new full-time job and my new hobby (see the post What I Really Want To Do Is Direct) I really should change this blog to a "once a week" footing. Daily is out of reach right now. I'll try to post one humour story a week, most likely on Friday or early Monday morning. More videos will also be coming down the pipe, but they'll be a bonus on top of my weekly humour post. So, here's what's new... HOMEMADE VIDEO BLOG ENTRY! What I Really Want To Do Is Direct This post will be of a video I shot today. I just got a lovely Panasonic GS80 Mini DV Camcorder and I thought that 'Frodo', my 10-year old english bull terrier would be the perfect first subject. (more...) Btw, my posting was so erratic in August that I'm going to combine it with September for choosing the next ...
noreply@blogger.com (T. D. Fuhringer) 785 days ago
This post will be of a video I shot today. I just got a lovely Panasonic GS80 Mini DV Camcorder and I thought that 'Frodo', my 10-year old english bull terrier would be the perfect first subject. I had to put it on YouTube since the blogger.com software keeps failing to upload the video. -sigh- (It looks WAY better in it's original full resolution) Please enjoy the video and let me know what you think. Thanks! Previous Post: At Least I Didn't Burn the Place Down
