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Do you want a Warlock standalone game?

8 Nov, 2014 @ 1:53pm - Adynathos
Would you be interested in a Warlock standalone game?
Warlock has existed for a long time and we have been working on a standalone in the previous year. However when Dota2 modding was announced, we have switched to produce the Dota2 version of WL. Also, a completely new version of Unreal Engine has been released and I have been learning the new technology.

Now I think I have the technology and knowledge to create the standalone Warlock game. However, a multiplayer game is useless if there is no community and no matches are hosted. Therefore I would like to see who would be interested in such a game.

Lets review what that standalone WL would mean:

Positive: new features
  • controls: key rebinding, new controls like holding the mouse for constant effect
  • stats (persistent ranking, spell accuracy stats etc)
  • new mechanics: there are many ideas what new concepts could be introduced into WL, we considered custom spells for example
    anyway, development of the standalone would mean that those concepts could be tested (and maybe some of them will be good)

Negative:
  • infrastructure: we cannot compete with Dota's huge infrastructure (dedicated servers, steam integration)
  • players/community: if there are not enough active players, no matches will be hosted. Dota has a huge amount of players.
    (this is why i am asking if you would be interested)
  • separate installation: you will need to download a few hunderd MB game and install it
  • it will take time to make

A multiplayer game can only exist if it has an active community...
If you like Warlock and would be interested in playing the standalone Warlock game, please reply here (or here[www.warlockbrawl.com]).
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The Kokon 24 Dec, 2014 @ 3:31am 
I think a standalone version would be really awesome and I would deffinitely play it, but as you say there are setbacks if you were to do this. I would love to see a standalone version someday, but I think that at this moment in time it's better to focus on the Dota 2 custom game since Valve is planning to implement full support for custom gamemodes. I don't really know much about making of custom gamemodes but I feel that its possible that what Valve relases (whatever it may be) could potentially give you the options to implement some new mechanics (I don't know, but I hope it will).

So in short: I think you should focus on Dota 2 custom gamemode at this point in time, but don't give up on the standalone version. Wait to see if the gamemode in Dota 2 raises interest when custom gamemodes are officialy released, and based on that interest decide if it would be worth your while to make a standalone version.

Thanks for the great work and keep it up :)
Lar 8 Nov, 2014 @ 2:07pm 
I think Warlock as a custom game in Dota 2 would be better but I think you guys can judge it better.

From what I've heard custom games in Dota 2 can be really powerful but it is still in alpha. In the near future (early next year) Valve is supposed to release something big. Probably custom game support.

From your positive and negative analysis it seems the negatives outweights the positives. Regarding your positives I think making an end-stats-screen is already possible. Some people in the modding community also seem to work on a RPG which can automatically save and load, custom spells are also already possible. The controls are still limited but I think Valve will give you more options. Though that will take a while.

I would say work on Warlock as a custom game, build the community from there and if it's getting big consider of making a standalone but don't think about making a standalone now.

Either way I'm looking forward to Warlock. :d2rubick:
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