Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Space Battles And MMORPG Development

By Donato G. Glover


MMORPG's, also called massively multiplayer online role playing games, often feature science fiction themes and include space battles amongst their many challenges. The satisfaction of making it past a particularly difficult challenge in a video game is something that both adults and children love about such games. No matter whether you are playing a fantasy game, a role playing game, a space game, or some mixture of the three, you can expect to notice a few similar design features. While all games are different in some ways, understanding the features that they have in common will help make you an experienced and skilled gamer.

Computer controlled characters are vital in MMORPG's despite the fact that your space battles may be fought with the assistance of other gamer controlled characters as well. If the computer controls a character, they are viewed as a non-player character, or NPC. While teaming up with other players is frequently necessary to overcome in-game challenges, do not forget that you will need the help of NPC's from time to time as well.

Your character's skills will become progressively stronger as you move through your game and overcome enemies and space battles. It is also common for games to use a questing system to help you advance; quests are in-game challenges that might require you to defeat a certain enemy or collect a certain item. While some quests may give you currency or items, others give you the experience you need to get improved abilities and a higher level which also means an increase in the stats that control your character's skill sets.

Collecting items is an important part of all role playing games because you need such items to complete quests, trade with other characters, and earn in-game currency. In most cases you can gain new items as loot from the enemies you fight, although you may also be able to collect them through other means; if you are looking for an especially important item it is likely to be looted from a boss enemy.

The space battles and other fun elements of MMORPG's are part of what has made them so popular with gamers all over the world. When you realize the ways online games are designed and realize how looting, leveling up, and NPC's can help you, you are sure to enjoy your game.




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