Real Time Strategy — The Gameplay to drive Sprawling Empires in Sandbox Games
Video games have long been dreamt of as a place to escape to where we can explore a vast world filled with epic fast paced and visual addictive sequences that you could only dream of in your best and dreamiest dreams.
The first step to achieving this is architecting the software needed to simulate an alternate reality built upon massive and exciting Sandbox worlds. And by “sandbox” I mean that it cannot be static (like GTA 5), but where you are able to build and interact with the terrain in a way similar to the real world, just, on steroids.
I’ve talked about it in my previous post on creating an alternate video game reality and how architecting a sandbox game as the foundation is the first step to achieving this level of realtime destruction and immersion.
That is only the first step.
We have to take the second step, and the second step is engrossing and engaging players in this reality. Taking their full undivided attention and pouring it into gameplay that will be addictively rewarding and driving them to want nothing more in life than to grow their armies…
…and build bigger and more extravagant bases.
I believe RTS Games can achieve this, through their addictive gameplay cycle of struggling to create and grow until you become number 1.
A simple example you can access for free should help get my point across. Medieval RTS on Roblox.
Now yes, I know what your thinking. Roblox? But hear me out. The addictive nature of the game is what makes RTS Games great.
But now imagine Real Time Strategy games mixed in a Sandbox game world…
You would become empowered to dominate the realm of reality on a scale never possible in gaming history.
The result would be incredible and scary. It would be the realization of gaming’s biggest dream. To build worlds where extravagant bases have a purpose and are built by the players… and with RTS Gamplay it would work.
Why? No Mans Sky is a massive epic galactic sandbox game… but there is no purpose to it all, there is no reason for domination and growth. With RTS Gameplay and Sandbox games combined the dream of sprawling empires made by different community’s of players could become reality.
But there is one last step missing. And that third and final step, is multiplayer.
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