Sagaj - the Vision

What I really want is a virtual reality fantasy world that evolves by itself and that millions of people can wander around in with fantastic avatars and have wonderous adventures. But alas, I feel that this is not possible to program with todays technology, even with a large budget and team to back you up, far less with two people in their spare time, so we decided to set our goals to something just a little smaller.

Here are some dreams that might (just might) be possible:

we tried to keep the model and the view as seperate as possible in our design, so hopefully it might be possible to add 3D Graphics some time, maybe to the (planned :)) dungeons first, Marion's idea and he would maybe like to do this
generate a large pseudo-random world with hundreds of Islands that the player can travel around in
make the world evolve and change by itself (monsters are born, trees grow and so on)
a game of Sagaj should span several generations of heros and culminate in a massive final showdon with the evil UBERbeing, after that you have won and get added to some central high-score list so you can brag to your buddies
if it ever gets to that stage, Sagaj is done
then comes the Massively Multiplayer Version - dubbed "Sagaj - Next Generation" for now, where every player leads a group of heroes, all in the same world
one central Island ("the hub"), is the meeting point for heros from all over on a central server, to trade and chat
each hero-guild owns a group of Islands that they can allow other players to enter and that run on their own machines and that they can tinker with, fight wars on and so on
well it gets kind of foggy here....more great things :)

So much for now, anyone elses Vision is welcome to be added here.

Shakasta 28-Sept-2001