A plea to Stefan

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by salesman

Ideally the tools should be built into the client and accessible offline, in my opinion. i.e. opening Graal leads to buttons to use the dev tools or "Play Online!". That way, we'd really be advertising Graal as a dev platform where developers can easily create work and release it to players. That would be very enticing to aspiring developers.

Having to jump through hoops and realizing all of the tools are out-dated is a real turn off. Perfect example of what I'm talking about, and this guy has a history with Graal. Good luck interesting someone who has never played before.

Anyways, I'll get back on topic. Regardless of whether or not the external tools will get some real attention, Stefan should at least fix small problems such as this one.

The problem I see is that it's really hard to advertise a development platform (or even an MMO). I would never have downloaded Graal based on any of the websites, and certainly never have thought "I can learn to make a game here!".

They could just go the Evony route and put breasts everywhere.