The Simugraph Library - RPG ideas, design snippets and articles

[Etinarg]

Choices are good. But too many choices can cause frustration. I've tried to write down some knowledge about choices:

http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.Choices

This can also be interesting for game designers, since a frustrated player is likely to lose interest and quit the game.

[Etinarg]

A recent discussion in another forum made me I rewrite the article "Toy or Game":

http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.ToyOrGame

[Etinarg]

I've added a new article for a very simple algorithm to generate "rooms and corridors" type dungeon maps:

http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.VeryBasicRoomsAndCorridors

[Etinarg]

Now also in the library, an old try of mine to locate "interesting" topics in an area spanned by the corners of being simple, complex, structured and chaotic:

http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.Simple-Complex-Structured-Chaotic

The former article was here:
http://www.funkelwerk.de/forum/index.php?topic=45.0

This might help to determine what to add or remove from a game to make it more interesting to players. Well, just in a very coarse manner, but still it might give directions ...

[Etinarg]

A new super-short article on "How to introduce new game elements":

http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.IntroduceNewGameElements

[Etinarg]

I wanted to add a link to this nice discussion on dungeon design to the Simugraph Library:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/168563-dungeon-layout-map-flow-old-school-game-design.html

But I noticed that the maps page had no real place for this, since it was centered very much on procedural map creation. I decided to split the maps page, and make two new pages for "hand crafted maps" and "procedurally generated maps". The article above now got a link from the "hand crafted maps" page - the page is otherwise fairly empty still.

New and changed pages:

• http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.Maps
  
• http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.HandCraftedMaps
  
• http://www.funkelwerk.de/library/index.php?n=Library.ProcedurallyGeneratedMaps
  

[Fenrir]

The server seems to be down for some reason. WHAT HAPPEN?

EDIT: It seems to be accessible again. The whole thing might have been my connection.

[Etinarg]

Ok. The log file says the server was up all the time. If there are problems again, let me know and I'll look into them.