Paleo Playground Game Dev Group

I've been working on Paleo Playground for about a month so far, and it's still very much a work in progress in every regard. I've been spending a great deal of time learning the basics of game development and have been tackling the ingredients of a game one step at a time. As I progress further, however, the dream of creating my own game becomes closer to a reality.

As of now, Paleo Playground is a game that has some of the essential elements in place with a whole lot left to be done. It has started transforming from a big blob of Unreal tutorials into an actual start of a real game. I'm quite proud of how it's come along so far.

The game I wish to create here, however, will be a great deal different than the demo available today. It will ultimately be a massively multiplayer, survival-oriented dinosaur game. It will pit players against one another in competition for resources such as food, water, and territory. Combat will be encouraged and well-designed.

As the game shapes further towards a marketable product, a better idea of the final game will be had. As of now, however, a couple amazingly awesome ideas have already been implemented.

The first of these is exhaustible water supplies. As players drink from water sources, the level drops. This will ultimately limit the amount of players that can remain in one location without stressing the supply into exhaustion. They slowly will replenish as well.

The second is comfort as a manageable resource. Comfort will play a role in influencing your dinosaur's other stats. As of now, it influences heal rate. High comfort will allow a faster recovery after a hunt, and a lack of comfort (stress) will actually start draining your HP. Currently, comfort is determined solely by proximity to predators, competitors, and allies. Velociraptors gain comfort by being close to other Velociraptors, but lose comfort when in close proximity to a Utahraptor, for example. Much more will be done with this ecosystem-balancing resource in the future.

The next major couple of steps for me as the developer of Paleo Playground are to both bring the game online such that multiplayer can be experienced and to allow a much nicer selection of playable dinosaurs. The multiplayer will be something I can tackle, but as for the dinosaur models and animations, it'll need to be commissioned. I'm not quite ready yet with this project to start searching for high dollar commissions, likely not until after multiplayer is complete. When the game reaches that point, however, I’ll be starting a GoFundMe for this purpose.

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