Author: markseem

Lore: Disk of Harmony

July, 27 2024 It is a flat world where the geography itself starts to turn you around when you go far enough. Right in the center of the Disk there is Great Forest with enormous trees. All rivers of this world there and run all sides from the forest to the plains. This world is…
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Mechanics: AR Craft & Enchantment

July, 13 2024 These are examples of the “reasons” to meet your friends outside. Basically to craft legendary weapons, or get better buffs you should team up with your friends, meet and play minigames in AR-mode. And then…well they can go find cooperative missions, or just spend time together outside. Anyway our mission is done…
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NPC’s to Find Around: Lady Arkeena Shadwaine

June, 29 2024 Lady Arkeena is a child of an old dynasty of mages. Her ancestors ruled The Capital back in the days when The Capital was known only as The Great Ring. Now old dynasties try to find their places in new world. And that path brought Arkeena to Alonso’s ship…And then to Toronto.…
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Thoughts: Generative storytelling

June, 15 2024 We are living in great times indeed. Sci-Fi comes true faster than we can imagine. What gameplay will Great Tomorrow bring us? There are great examples of games that are story generators like Dwarf Fortress and Rim World. But even in those games you always start to recognise patterns sooner or later.…
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Mechanics: AR City-Quests

June, 1 2024 So let’s speak about this AR part of the quests. You are not only going outside to find RPG-missions, some quests from virtual world could lead you to real world to engage in different activities: There are a lot of AR-mechanics. Some of them are simple, some would be challengeable more or…
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Thoughts: Social aspect of multiplayer

May, 18 2024 What exactly do we mean by saying “we are going to improve social aspect of multiplayer games”? While internet have truly connected different parts of the world and gave people chance to stay in touch in a distance, we also lost something on the road. And I’m basically talking about face-to-face communication…
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NPC’s to Find Around: Professor Alonso

May, 4 2024 This day I want to start new heading about NPC you can find in your city. And first of all, I’m glad to introduce you to one of the first Small World inhabitant, that could pass through the Rift and now stuck in our reality: Professor Alonso de la Mancha. He is…
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Lore: The Capital

April 21, 2024 The Capital is one of the greatest worlds in the Dimension. So they say. The Ring of snow mountains, planes, rivers and marvelous big cities floats in space, illuminated and warmed by two suns. It is a world of Enlightenment and Courage. The Great Republic Reformation happened more than a 100 years…
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Mechanics: RPG gameplay

April, 7 2024 So, you found a Rift, your avatar went through. What’s next? That is where classic hack-n-slash part begins. Through the Rift you are sending your avatar to a Small World, which is basically a game map. There you can find enemies to fight, places to explore, stories to hear, and also quests…
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Thoughts: Breaking the 4th Wall

March, 24 2024 Good day, everyone. We’ve thought a lot about possibilities that can give AR\VR-gameplay. And one of them is that by making the real world part of the game, you are making player a part of it too. It’s not just about increasing an immersiveness in terms of classic gaming. It is kind…
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