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| Contact: Ben Nicholson bnicholson@frontier.co.uk | | Contact: Ben Nicholson bnicholson@frontier.co.uk |
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| Realtime 2D Networked Sandbox Game (Working Title) - Matt Johnson, Frontier
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| We would like to create a simple and social space where friends can get
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| creations. A persistent networked 2D grid-based game where all the content
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| is user created. From the logic to the artwork, all from a few simple
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| pre-defined building blocks like switches, walls, floors, signs, wires,
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| lights and more. The project will require the students to focus on aspects
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| of a number of areas such as networking, live world management and
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| interaction, session control, and bring these together with a little
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| imagination, overcoming real world games development issues. Creativity in
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| design, good cooperation and effective division of labour will be
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| paramount.
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| Alternative proposal
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| [[A platform for live online modding]] | | [[A platform for live online modding]] |
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| In sandbox games like Minecraft, the only way to define more interesting
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| game scenarios is to write and install Java mods. It is possible to make
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| automatic behaviours in the Minecraft world, but only using the cumbersome
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| "redstone" logic blocks. The goal of this project is to make a new
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| multi-player sandbox game, based on a 2D grid, where users can define more
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| complex behaviours by clicking on a grid element to embed pieces of code
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| written in a scripting language like Lua. You are welcome to use a
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| commercial or open source rendering engine, but maintaining a shared
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| persistent world will still involve solving problems of persistence,
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| networking, live world management and session control.
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