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Agonia: A text-based adventure/fighting RPG

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Is it possible to play in coop mode with one or more geographically dispersed friends?

I am currently playing Original Sin (on Steam) with a friend who lives 6-700 km away, and I might involve more people if this is supported.

Also interested in the answer to this question.

We love playing Original Sin with my SO. We are both rpg players and we are currently waiting for Baldur's Gate 3 by Larian Studio (studio behind DOS). Is there any other modern crpg we could play in coop? Any recommendations?

Definitely. In fact this game is a great way to keep an active link with your friends that are geographically distant.

Teamwork in the game is absolutely vital. It's possible to go lone-wolf style but more challenging :)

Hello all, I am one of the devs of the game. Thanks to Hackertux for promoting the game here. I am happy to answer any question. We also have a very active community on Discord where all players are happy to answer questions or help new players. Belouch

https://discordapp.com/invite/6qAqyRp

I liked web/browser-based games (not text-games). I was playing Cafysteria, Shilla, and Fallensword. Out of the three only FS keeps going strong (just rejoined the game a few days ago).

I wish though Shilla would come back, that was a much more fun game!

You just reminded me of a browser-based game called Omerta. Was really into it back in the day. The multiplayer aspect of it took place on IRC. Nostalgic.

Hi Guys, I am one of the leaders of a group dedicated to welcoming and equipping newcomers to our faction. Should you wish to try the game and join the Forsaken faction, send me a message ingame! :)

I'm working on a new game. I usually develop my games using javascript and gamas cause its very easy to port it to various systems / platforms. This game I'm intending to release as a comercial product, so I was thinking in selling it on xbox on steam. I guess I could publish on the web,, like you are doing, but how you monetize your game?

A game like this is almost impossible to really monetize. It's hard enough to compete being 100% free. It's basically limited to a labor of love.

Donations won't offset the dev time, but can be significant with a few thousand players. I briefly tried two PBBGs recently (idlescape.com + avabur.com) and could see from the chat that both were bringing in at least thousands a month. The former hasn't been around very long, though, and the latter had microtransactions and somewhat cheap dopamine mechanics.

nice, I'll visit those links

I confirm what hombre_fatal says. Lucky for us, this game is a passion project, we are not looking for any profitability. Truth is, if we were, we would have had to give up a long time ago. Server/domain costs are split among 6 admins, all development work (code, design, images, admining, moderation etc) is based on volunteer work from passionates. Though we do have many players who asked to make donations, but we never accept any so far. The game will ALWAYS remain 100% free with no pay-to-win and no ads.

How is this different than a MUD?

It's more of a browser-based game (pbbg) than a traditional text-based MUD. Plus, the inter-person interactivity seems less than a MUD, too.

Despite the HN headline, from the screenshots it looks graphical.

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