Posted by Dusty

Alright, I didn't read that bit. Just had to satisfy my curiosity.

yes that anvil along with bits of the interior were from a tileset Aeko had made. As specified above, the rest is either old or unused GR art or licensed graphics made by staff. Credit to all the artists is in the source code along with links to their work.

Posted by Zerxus

Im to lazy to read again

I apologize for the length! There was a lot to write about and I felt like I had to extend on certain aspects of the project as they might have seemed unclear. Thanks for taking your time to read though!  

Posted by *Rammy

SourceVit is a game and website based around a virtual currency, what this means is that once we reach a good amount of active players,
we will be providing ways for you to make real money, yes let me repeat that, real money ]simply by playing our game!
Players will be able to mine and smith coins and turn them into money that they can transfer, trade, spend or bet on our website.





Q: How will you pay us when we start playing?
A: After the game takes off and we being to reach a fair player count, we will begin by offering
"exchanges". We will trade you your "vits" (coins) for other virtual currencies such as DogeCoin.
Then we will move onto paying you either through PayPal or some other money transferring method
that we will have implemented on our site. The money we will receive from ads and sponsors as
well as those who buy vits or premium items in our shop, will be used to circulate the money from us to you!

virtual currency is not real money

and this "real money" would only be used in your game? right  

Looks amazing! :0  

Why do I feel as though the "game" part of this will be lackluster...  

Posted by GOAT

virtual currency is not real money

and this "real money" would only be used in your game? right

Virtual currency that you can then exchange for real money (just like Bitcoin). And no not necessarily just for use in game, you will have the option to either transfer/trade/exchange it on the website (but each of these options will differ based on playercount). Check what I wrote to The Doctor in the previous comments, that should clear things up

Posted by John

Looks amazing! :0

Hey thanks!

Posted by Lazerlatte

Why do I feel as though the "game" part of this will be lackluster...

You're right, it may appear to be rather dull but that is what I came here for I'm looking for things that you Graalians might like to see implemented in future releases. So feel free to suggest anything!  

Posted by *Rammy

Virtual currency that you can exchange for real money (just like Bitcoin). Check what I wrote to The Doctor in the previous comments, that should clear things up

Wouldn't it just be easier for you to convert your virtual currency and pay the players the "real" money instead?

BTW where do you exchange bitcoins/dodgecoins for real money? Not familiar with all this fancy virtual currency.  

Posted by GOAT

Wouldn't it just be easier for you to convert your virtual currency and pay the players the "real" money instead?

BTW where do you exchange bitcoins/dodgecoins for real money? Not familiar with all this fancy virtual currency.

Part of what we will do is directly pay the players, we will have a system of exchange on our website where players can dump their vits and get paid back in cash. However, obviously we will have a limited supply of cash that we will willingly hand out and the amount will be calculated based on multiple factors (including the revenue we generate from the project and how often the players play the game or interact with our site).

The exchange that I was talking about is done among the players, that is the next step. And that is what we are looking to achieve. Which is why I emphasized the playercount part. Once people see value in the currency they will begin trading amongst themselves. (Just like they do with the current virtual currencies).

I am currently deciding on whether it would be wise to close the exchange completely once players begin trading on their own in the market or to keep it open periodically.

Hope that makes sense  

Posted by *Rammy

Part of what we will do is directly pay the players, we will have a system of exchange on our website where players can dump their vits and get paid back in cash. However, obviously we will have a limited supply of cash that we will willingly hand out and the amount will be calculated based on multiple factors (including the revenue we generate from the project and how often the players play the game or interact with our site).

The exchange that I was talking about is done among the players, that is the next step. And that is what we are looking to achieve. Which is why I emphasized the playercount part. Once people see value in the currency they will begin trading amongst themselves. (Just like they do with the current virtual currencies).

I am currently deciding on whether it would be wise to close the exchange completely once players begin trading on their own in the market or to keep it open periodically.

Hope that makes sense

I had an idea of what were the intentions of the game. Your wording is misleading, so I was just making sure some of it was cleared up.  

Posted by GOAT

I had an idea of what were the intentions of the game. Your wording is misleading, so I was just making sure some of it was cleared up.

I aplogize for that, I wrote it all pretty quick.
Good to know that you understand now!  

Is movement grid based? Also, when you say weapons, what do you mean? Swords and bows? Guns? And what purpose would they serve?  

Posted by Lazerlatte

Is movement grid based? Also, when you say weapons, what do you mean? Swords and bows? Guns? And what purpose would they serve?

The movement is not grid based in theory as there are no defined grids in the code. However the system does replicate some of the well know types of movement systems out there (notably Pokemon which is grid based). I'd also like to point out that the collision detection system not grid based either, but it functions based on the player's position in comparison to the game object's, the small algorithm that deals with that is pretty widespread among the dev community so it was simple having it implemented, also, all the objects that should collide with the player are added to an objects array where they are then plugged into the algorithm so it's relatively simple to add or remove these objects from the code.

As far as weapons go, I haven't worked out the details entirely which is why they will most likely not appear in the first release. I do feel that maybe adding a second level with enemies/monsters might do the trick and make the game more interesting. But I'll have to see about that. Don't get me wrong though, they are definitely in option, I'm just looking for a good way to include them without having to add too much along with them.  

Posted by *Rammy

The movement is not grid based in theory as there are no defined grids in the code. However the system does replicate some of the well know types of movement systems out there (notably Pokemon which is grid based). I'd also like to point out that the collision detection system not grid based either, but it functions based on the player's position in comparison to the game object's, the small algorithm that deals with that is pretty widespread among the dev community so it was simple having it implemented, also, all the objects that should collide with the player are added to an objects array where they are then plugged into the algorithm so it's relatively simple to add or remove these objects from the code.

As far as weapons go, I haven't worked out the details entirely which is why they will most likely not appear in the first release. I do feel that maybe adding a second level with enemies/monsters might do the trick and make the game more interesting. But I'll have to see about that. Don't get me wrong though, they are definitely in option, I'm just looking for a good way to include them without having to add too much along with them.

how about another world where monsters attack whilst you gain, requiring weapons for defense and you get more more than normally.  

Posted by Myst

how about another world where monsters attack whilst you gain, requiring weapons for defense and you get more more than normally.

I like that idea! Maybe I'll have a type of "server list" to chose from onload that will specify whether there are monsters on the server or not. Or possibly just to simplify before the release, I'll have 2 worlds that players can chose to hop from. Though I'll need to make the second world a bit challenging to have the noobs spend some time in the first world slowly gaining experience and coins.

Thanks for the suggestion  

Will you use your own coin, or revive an already dead alt coin?  

Posted by hosler

Will you use your own coin, or revive an already dead alt coin?

We will introduce our own coin to the virtual market dubbed VitCoin, the value of the coin will be displayed on the index page along with general news, the number of registered players and your "unique ID".

The value of our currency will be in part, dependent on other virtual currencies (mostly Bitcoin) as well as transactions and trades made using our website/game. So even if Bitcoin crashes for example, the currency doesn't necessarily drop drastically.

Here's how it looks like:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/diigo/8587622_246492442_16480962?AWSAccessKeyId=0R7FMW7AXRVCYMAPTPR2&Expires=1420818130&Signature=89czL2wljkIaNWc8QPiVSG38MOA%3D (Unsupported image host)