Some of you may already be aware of my other project "Vox Dei", and my Server Project "New-Hope", however these are my 'side-projects' and this is the main project.
So, Let's go ahead and touch down a little bit on "The Game of Life"
As mentioned in the title, it's going to be an Adventure Survival game, with RPG aspects, meaning that each individual player will have his own role in the game. Now, while the game is still in development (Both Gameplay design, and Programming) there are a few things that we currently have our mind set on, so, let's go ahead and discuss what will make this game fall into each category listed above.
Adventure
While running around inside of "The Game of Life" you will notice what seems like an endless persistent world, with numerous zones and instances to explore and wonder around in, we are currently working on terrain generation and terraforming based on character decisions inside of the game, meaning that each decision that a player makes through his journey to the be the top player, however he plans on doing it will influence the map, this influence can cause things ranging from natural disasters to artificial intelligence raids.
Survival
Alright, so we've gotten the "Adventure" part out of the way, now we need to talk about the "Survival" aspect, but that's the key point in the game. While you're out there on your adventure you're going to have to keep track of your characters necessities such as food and water, without food your character will grow weak and his battle performance will start to degrade, as-well as it will take longer to complete certain task(s), in order to keep your character fed you will have to hunt, farm, or purchase food from other players, if your character does not eat and starves, he will die, however this is not the end, technically. Your character will still exist, and your account won't be deleted like some "Hard-Core" games, that is, unless you're on our hard-core server, however if you're just on our regular server, you will lose your items, and all of the money you were carrying with you and re-spawn, please keep note that banks are accessible to store money in, however are only available in certain villages.
RPG
What defines a RPG? Well, I would guess the acronym explains it all. It's a "Role-Playing Game" meaning that in some shape you will be playing a role, however in "The Game of Life" you will not be limited to a single role, however it is up to you as to which role you wish you play, you could be a hunter that goes out and kills animals and sells the meat to hungry players on the streets, you could create your own store and become a merchant, go out and slaughter the monsters roaming around and become a warrior. Perhaps you are good at Player vs Player, become a "Bounty Hunter" by attacking players that other people have problems with (Please note that attacking other players is only available in certain instances of the game, Player vs Player is intended to be semi-open world, however contained in a controlled environment). Go fishing, sell the fish. Grab an axe, cut down trees, sell the wood. The list goes on.
Now that' we have gotten that out of the way, let's go ahead and discuss some features that we plan on adding to this "MORPG"
Multiplayer Support (hurr-durr, had to throw it out there)
Player-Housing
Hunting
Farming
Fishing
Engineering
PvP
This is just to give you some idea on what we plan to have implemented before going on our first "Alpha" test, we are still debating on how the combat system is going to be like in the game, we understand that we will probably not have to worry about a heavy-server load, so a real-time combat system is very possible, however, a standard target based system would also suffice, if you have any suggestions please leave them in the comments below.
What we have done so far (Networking side of things):
Networking using a stand-alone server
SQL Based login/registration system
Chat-Server
Please note that as far as the game it-self goes, currently it's nothing but cubes and spheres, so there's nothing to show for here, however, here's the login screen (Which is ironically just a picture of some chick from an anime I found, with an opaque black square, some text fields, and buttons)
We're currently in-need of artist(s) and graphical designers to do things like this for us, create backgrounds, concept art, and interfaces.. if you're interested, let me know.
Also we are in need of a web-designer.