MetaFilter posts tagged with RPG and game

Relationship has levelled Up

The Whelk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:06:57 -0800

Level Up! A sweet and oddly deep little RPG/platformer flash game that's all about grinding, stats, and broken fences. Hint: X is up, down is interact, and c is Menu. Read the codex, trust me.

You have survived another day!

catchingsignals — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:59 -0800

Elona Shooter - a fantastic castle-defence-shooter-RPG in Flash. Warning: insanely hard.

Flash Friday RPG

never used baby shoes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:37:59 -0800

Flash Friday RPG Fun: Hands of War. Set in a kingdom in the midst of a civil war, choose the factions you support while re-assembling the Heartstone.

Savage 2, Free Hybrid FPS/RPG/RTS

paradoxflow — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:18:03 -0800

Savage 2 is an innovative mix of first-person shooter, third-person action rpg, and real-time strategy. Teams consisting of 18 different classes, each with unique abilities, are divided in squads led by an officer, and under the direction of a single commander with a top down view of the action. Players must help their commander capture resources, advance their front line, and eventually destroy the enemy’s stronghold while accumulating experience and improving their abilities. Did I mention as of December 9th, it has become free to play? There is an optional pay to play component (a one time $9.99 payment for "prime membership"), but unlike some "free" games, it really isn't necessary to get the full experience or to be competitive. As an added bonus it is independently published, and runs on Mac and Linux as well as Windows based systems.

Braunstein, the world's first role-playing game

Kattullus — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:50:52 -0800

Most gamers have never heard of Braunstein. Sad but true. In the hierarchy of self-awareness you’ll find the circle of gamers who know what D&D is (a very, very large circle), then inside of that is the circle of gamers who know what Greyhawk is (large but smaller), and inside that the circle who knows what Blackmoor is (smaller still). And then in the very center, vanishingly small, are the people who’ve heard of Braunstein. Which is a pity, because Braunstein is the granddaddy of them all.

Braunstein: the Roots of Roleplaying Games by Ben Robbins. The first role-playing game was run by soldier David Wesely in 1967, his group including none other than D&D co-creator Dave Arneson. This past GenCon Braunstein was revived! Here's what the players had to say. Handouts from an earlier Braunstein revival. David Wesely's post-game comments. [via Rob McDougall] David Wesely provides further background (posting as weseld1) including that his inspiration for introducing the figure of a "referee" (a.k.a. game master or dungeon master) came from Strategos, The American Game of War by Lt. Charles Adiel Lewis Totten. Rob McDougall tells the story of Totten. Wesely also mentions two books of game theory which had a great influence on him, one of which The Compleat Strategyst, was a bestseller put out by the RAND Corporation. Rob McDougall traces the history of roleplaying back to RAND.

Finally, there's a game that just is a database!

Smart Dalek — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:44:05 -0800

mySQLgame. Naturally, it's an alpha build. [via]

GTFO noob

CrunchyFrog — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:42:02 -0800

Magical dragon-faeries? Flaxen-hair'd elflords? Dank scary dungeons, reminiscent of Grandpa's basement? Kids' stuff. Whether you're a Camwhore, Emo Kid, or Troll, Forumwarz everything relevant about the Internet (i.e., Forums and IM) distilled down to a browser-based RPG. Buy warez from shady Russian dealers, upgrade your hacking/whining skills, pwn total strangers by crashing their web sites, and join or fight a shadowy government conspiracy. You have nothing to lose but your dignity.

Kiss your free time goodbye.

MythMaker — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:50:42 -0800

Protector. ~Flash Friday~ Protector takes the mechanics of tower defense games, and adds an RPG element to it. Specialize, level up, and say goodbye to your free time. previously

RULE # 1: In the short term, binary logic [soul equation] is far superior (?) than fuzzy logic [cloning equation].

juv3nal — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:58:34 -0800

Hybrid: the roleplaying game. A Timecube style "role playing game." via Grand Text Auto

Get back here with my hat!

ChasFile — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:14:42 -0800

Cities is a cross between Urban Dead and Kingdom of Loathing.

Urban Dead -- a massively-multiplayer zombie apocalypse game

CrunchyFrog — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 09:15:51 -0800

Urban Dead is a browser-based, grid-mapped multi-player game where you play the survivor or victim of a zombie outbreak in a quarantined city centre. Tired of playing a pseudo-hero in a fantasy Kingdom of Loathing? Play a scientist, soldier, or ordinary civilian in a modern city, and try to avoid being infected. Or skip the "avoid" phase, and just play a zombie.

The Elder Scrolls - The Imperial Library

Pretty_Generic — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:53:30 -0800

Ever play Morrowind? Did you realise how obscenely gargantuan the backstory and associated literature is? I'm not much of a roleplay geek, but the sheer amount of work to produce this fictious world is kinda hypnotic. And as for this...

Hamlet 2471

MrBaliHai — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 06:34:24 -0800

Film Mogul is an online RPG that's "a simulation of what it is like to be a power player in the movie industry today." Take on the role of studio head, agent, producer, critic, or journalist and make virtual movies every bit as crappy as the ones that the real Hollywood churns out!

mikhail — Fri, 04 Oct 2002 15:09:46 -0800

SmokymokeyS has been around for some time, but I've never seen it mentioned here. There's some great design and imagery to be found there, and they've been working on a Javascript RPG called Triglav, which although they say it's unfinished, seems pretty functional and very cool.

zeoslap — Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:27:27 -0800

Somewhere, beneath the cover of an innocuous-looking retail operation, those with true Power have built a facility to imprison forces man was not meant to know . . . things we were never meant to comprehend... dare you peek inside...

crankydoodle — Wed, 19 Jun 2002 18:08:49 -0800

Neverwinter Nights is out!!! After waiting 4 long years and wading through a fetid quagmire of let-down rumors and whatnot, I finally have a copy installed on my laptop right now! Run, don't walk to your local Software Etc. and see if they have a copy. Our local WotC didn't have a copy, and neither did our local Electronics Boutique or Best Buy.

skallas — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:02:47 -0800

Progress Quest For the RPG player on the go. Its satire and a game (minus gameplay) at the same time.

jcterminal — Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:28:28 -0800

Play one RPG, you've played them all. Or, "The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Clichés".