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General Discussion /
« on: September 15, 2004, 02:46:52 pm »
I think lore is vital, especially to the RPG genre.

RPGs have become to reliant on things that people already know: elves, dwarves, gnomes, blah blah blah.
These are okay, but where are they from?  Are they good or evil?  Why?
You have to have quests in these games, but why are you killing NPC_001 to give his head to NPC_002?  You have to have a reason for these things.

A backup storyline isn\'t enforcing any rules - look at old-style D&D.  Your DM set up the scenario and the story played itself from there.  Without that scenario you don\'t know what you\'re doing there in the first place.

So yes, I think it\'s very impotant myself.  But then I love reading lore and discovering exactly why I should be doing things, rather than just mindlessly following orders :)

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General Discussion /
« on: September 15, 2004, 02:31:59 pm »
Wouldn\'t a screenshot on a website make it a public display?  It\'s not like taking a screenshot to use as your desktop picture, but more like taking a picture of someone\'s sculpture and putting on display in an art gallery.

The other thing to look out for is that you\'re not violating any NDAs.  I don\'t know if PS has issued pre-alpha testers with a Non-Disclosure Agreement (I would assume it\'s in the Terms somewhere) so posting screenshots on a publicly viewable website WOULD violate copyright and could get you sued.

It\'d be pretty silly not to have some kind of NDA, because it\'d be easy enough for another software developer to look at a website, see an idea they hadn\'t thought of then use it and copyright it themselves, making it illegal for the PS team to use without permission and thereby screwing up the entire project and forcing a code rewrite.

/inhales

Of course, there might not be any need for an NDA right now if there is nothing original in the product at the moment.  For instance, if they plan on changing the graphics or UI later and don\'t care about the current models then it\'s not necessary.  If it\'s still the \"3d chat room\" it was described (I\'ve not downloaded my version yet) then there might be nothing to protect - lots of people have released 3d chat rooms.  It\'s only once the quest and detailed content get added that things become valuable.

That any clearer for ya? :)

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The Hydlaa Plaza / Location
« on: September 15, 2004, 01:24:25 pm »
I\'m from the UK as well :)

Oh, and for those who don\'t know:

New Zealand and Australia are located on the continent known as Australasia

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