I don’t know why, I just felt very tiresome these days.
So, I started to play a very old, also a very classic, game: Diablo II.
Suddenly, I hope I can see Diablo III in the future not so long.
The classmates who has been in German told me that a game what will make people in China feel very nonsense is very popular in Europe. Its name is “rollenpiel”, of course, in Germany. In English, you can call it “role play”. In fact, it’s one of the earliest games in the game history. Role play game can be found in the long civilization history of Europe. In last century, you can found that it developed into a new form called “PRPG”—Paper Role Play Game. The famous fancy novel <Dragon Lance> is a background setting collection of a series of PRPG called “Dungeon and Dragon”, which is a very fashionable game in last century. The setting collection “Dragon Lance” made the “Dungeon and Dragon” climbed on the top of the PRPG industry. The third version of “Dragon Lance” is a classic monument of the PRPG history. You can see more information of
http://www.dndfans.org/, the first official site of “Dungeon and Dragon” in China.
In my opinion, the PRPG can be described as a computer game run at a super computer—human beings. The DM, Dungeon Master, is the main program of the computer game; he or she is the core, the god, and the devil. DM can control all things, but he or she can’t control anything at the same moment. The player can exert their wisdom, and show their own character. It’s what you won’t feel in a “real” “pure” computer game. So you’ll found that there are million of people are crazy for it, no matter oldster or youngster, lady or gentleman. With the developing of computer games, PRPG changed into a new form—RPG. But, in fact, PRPG has converted into many forms. RPG is just one of its new form. “Hero”, “Magic Gate”, “Diablo”, and many many different kinds of games are PRPG’s ramifications.
When I enjoyed the great novels “Dragon Lance”, I start to create my own fancy world of “Dungeon and Dragon”. An exhaustive map (sometimes a maze, because the “Dungeon”), a list of races, a series of jobs, and, the most important thing—rule, buildup the simplest PRPG setting background. I remember that it’s my senior one term, I drawn two large mazes and designed a series of rules, borrowed two dices from my classmates, and then I started my first travel in the world of Dungeon and Dragon. It’s an interesting travel, because all roles, included the DM, is acted by just one person—me. So, as every natural person thought, it became a very boring game. But you should know that I’m a monstrosity man, I found a strange way to make the boring game interesting. Hehe, you can know how nonsense I am now.
From that time on, I tried many times and many ways to build a game world for my own. Of course, in cyber-space.
And now, I have a new idea about it. Now that the rollenpiel is still fashionable in the world, why can’t I make a game to simulate the PRPG? Of course, I can’t program the code to simulate the real pure DM, because no program can simulate human beings nowadays, but I think I can send a new wind into the game world. I believe that when players spent a huge time to the RPGs what full of direct and dramatic violence and the visual effect what is too florid to giddy, a brilliant game with frugal interface will be a good choice to relax and enjoy an exciting and calm exploration.
Oh, Jesus! I pressed so much rubbish!
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