[Article Series] Creating an MMO Roguelike

[tangar]

Sharing a write‑up about the very first design trap in building a multiplayer roguelike: world scale. Why a huge world kills population density (and why I shrank Tangaria after years of doing the opposite).

#1: The Scale

https://igroglaz.com/en/tangaria-blog/creating-mmo-roguelike-1-the-scale

If you’re toying with an MMO‑roguelike idea, give it a skim – might save you some time

[Nick]

Lucky my game with a stupidly large world is single-player

[wobbly]

You could mix empty and game density, by making large parts of the map semi-uninhabitable (mountain/desert/wastelands) and spiking the start spawn location to populated areas.

Lucky my game with a stupidly large world is single-player

You are just cursing the 1st person who tries to convert it to multiplayer.