Document Core Values & Goals

[mrwonko]

To better communicate what this project is trying to achieve, I should describe it in terms of guiding values and what I want to achieve with it. Some things that come to mind:

• be accessible & approachable - games are for everyone
• let players create stories
• bring people together
• encourage positive experiences
• support creativity

[mrwonko]

Also: why am I doing this? To see what I can do, free of time constraints. To follow my perfectionism. To reshape things. Quality. Being relatable.

[mrwonko]

I might call these core values "tenets"...

• I don't want to have grinding. No bars to fill. No XP, no money. There will be mods for those. But I want to see (and show) how a world of abundance can look like.
  • binary progression, analogue mechanics
• Make it easy to do things right, for both players and modders
• Simulate all the things

[mrwonko]

I could also cite some influences to communicate some of the feeling I'm going for:

• Jedi Academy, obviously (basically everything)
• Dishonored (rule-driven responsive semi-predictable AI, powers, interactivity)
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Cutting)
• Devil May Cry 3-5 (combat system, rating system, camera system)
• Souls Games (weapon-specific animations & AI, modular architecture, tilesets & content re-use, katanas)
• Roblox, though I never played it (creating, sharing)
• Second Life (player-created content, interaction)
• VR Chat
• Project Offset (destruction)
• Spore (creature designer, procedural animation)
• QWOP (physics-based movement)
• Gang Beasts (physics-based animation)
• No Man's Sky (creatures, scale)
• Battlefield 2: Special Forces (grappling hook, zip lines, bots)
• Destiny 2 (co-op, weapon perks, character customisation)
• Star Citizen (walkable ships)
• Beam NG Drive, though I never played it (physics-driven vehicles)
• Star Wars Episode 1 Racer
• Warcraft 3 (level editor)
• Valheim (physics, modern take on low-poly)
• Planet Coaster (voxel terrain, spline-based track editor)
• Crysis (Editor, slide, 0G, physics)
• Prey (2006) (portals, local gravity, wall-walking)
• Half-Life: Alyx (VR interactions, editor, workshop)
• Supreme Commander (clients simulating in sync, slowing down to wait for the slowest one)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (rewind)
• Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (terrorist hunt multiplayer)

[mrwonko]

Try boiling it down to one sentence.

TheseusJA is about sharing and cooperating with other people and fostering communities.

[mrwonko]

Gardening instead of farming.