Hero Engine Looking to build a Social Game? Our Social Ref Game is up and running!

CinVin · Dec 21, 2011

Looking to build a Social Game? Our Social Ref Game is up and running!
(News from Hero Engine)

Hero Engine said:

We’re excited to debut our first reference world for HeroCloud developers!
Why Are We Building These Reference Worlds?

We are building these reference worlds to provide developers using HeroEngine with example implementations of systems that would be necessary to operate various types of games. Our first reference world is designed to help social game developers build massive online asynchronous social games. The social ref world can be accessed by anyone with a HeroBlade client installed on their computers. Take a look at some additional screenshots below to get a closer look.
These reference worlds, are by no means a complete game beyond the small amount of gameplay we’re providing. However, the core systems are all there in this social reference game: persistent player farms, friends system, task system, object placement and interaction. The Demo Social Game is a proof of concept illustrating the use of HeroEngine to create the kind of social game one might find on social networking sites like Facebook or hosted independently across the web. Styled as a common farm game clone, its primary goal is to provide examples of art, programming and game logic that could be used to facilitate the creation of real social games of your own design.
Social Ref Wiki is also up

We’ve also just completed the HE-Wiki for the social ref game to help you digest and learn about how the engine works for social games.
The contents of the wiki include:

Overview of the Art

Overview of the World Building

Overview of Scripting Work Done

Session-based Gameplay

Character System/Character Creation

Sample Game Systems

Same Isometric Camera

Sample Input System

What’s Next?

Over the next several months we’ll be rolling out other reference worlds for our developers. Next up, an FPS game followed by a Space Sim, then a turn based strategy game. We’ll then probably go back and refine some of these reference worlds, work on some higher level systems and add additional genres.
This same team creating these reference worlds is also preparing to become available to strike team projects that are far along in their production and could benefit from work and insight of a seasoned group of HeroEngine developers. If you are interested in our strike team services, please do not hesitate to contact Cooper at heroengine dot com.

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