Raven_Hellwind
This looks and plays like an NFT game.
25 pages to go through (and I will eventually) to see what others think because I am curious, but I don't see the value here. Not as it is. And I think it's going in the wrong direction. I'm keen to have a deeper discussion on this but so far:
-This looks like a filler piece. It doesnt bring more depth or story to the towns nor does it add anything to the over RP of the website.
-Who keeps pushing the Racing/Rally angle? It has been here for a decade and still feels just as awkward as the Aquarium, Fishing, and Lake Kindred. At what point are the dev's going to roll back and clean up instead of running on legacy ideas?
-Where is the separation from IRL to RP? Online persona should reflect the Avatar, thats the point on Gaia. If you have made a 3D chat room with no focus on the RP, you could have made this with 2D sprites and uploaded it to NewGrounds.
It doesnt feel like a project with a direction or end goal in relation to the rest of the site.
'Disjointed' is the most apt description.
Hope you enjoy the 25 pages. As for it being an "NFT" game I'm unsure of this description as there is nothing for sale like that ingame nor is there anything related to crypto involved in the game.
To respond to your... questions? Points? I'm unsure what they are but in response:
- This project isn't a piece, or filler, the project's goals as laid out in the first post is to create a reusable Gaia Online webgame client that can connect worlds supporting 2D/3D/2.5D and support the creation of social worlds and games. The project isn't focused on expanding the Gaia Online story or RP though in-game we have a contextual emote system which some players may find usual for RP, like World of Warcraft.
- Rally was chosen as it was the most popular social space in 2D at the time. When I started this project a Rally 3D map created by a previous team before my time was sent to me to try to adapt it for use in this new Rally 3D project. I'm a programmer, so there are limitations on what I can do with existing art sent to me. But that's why it's Rally and that's why it looks the way it does. As for other games, I'm unsure as the main longterm focus on this project is the tech and the social hangouts and games it could support creating while supporting Gaia Online avatars. If you have requests/ideas for worlds/games you need to direct them to Lanzer and not to me as I work on the client which is capable of supporting other worlds and games but is for now running Rally 3D.
- I'm really not sure what you're saying in this point. I might be able to upload it to Newgrounds if you'd like? I'm working on a way to embed it on all the popular webgame sites, possibly as a Discord activity, and the latest 2.0 version loads in a way to support this idea which I hope will be realized soon. I don't really know what you're talking about when it comes to RP though. I don't RP so I'm unsure.
Though I will say if you don't like the project there is existing social worlds and games to spend time in if you think they are better suited to your RP needs.