[UA] CRPG

[Epoch]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Greg Stolze wrote:

> >On Fri, 20 April 2001, "Gareth Hanrahan" wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hmm. now that I describe it, it sounds more and more like Unknown Occult
> >> Football Management.
> >
> >Actually, it's pretty close to Syndicate ... put a weirdness engine in
> >there and you're pretty much sorted.
> 
> I'm surprised that no one's thought to make it a god-game.  You're not Alex
> Abel: You're a member of the IC, trying to keep your Godwalker from giving
> you the ol' heave-ho.

Or, an interesting variation would be the god-game's close cousin: the RTS
(real-time strategy).  It'd be interesting to know whether or not you
could get an RTS-style game that had, as the strategic element, only a
small portion of violence, and a large part of other conflict.  I think it
might be possible, and very interesting.

Mike

--
iykwim(aityd), tyvm
	- ep


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