Content Updates, Platform, Seeds, Auction House - extracts from the Game Design Document

CONTENT UPDATES

The game will be built to utilise a universal content management system (CMS - akin to those used to manage content rich websites) in this way, additional content can easily be added to the game in quick, regular updates.

Appealing to the modding community this CMS will be leveraged and exposed to the community to enable non-staff to produce (ratified) content.

User generated content (UGC) will go through a strict appraisal system to ensure quality, and contributors will be rewarded with unique Achievements, potentially in-game currency and possibly immortalised in the game world.

This achieves several things:

1. UGC is a proven tool to build community
2. Top contributors can be recruited if required
3. This provides a low-cost method of producing additional content

PLATFORM

Dread Pirate Booty will be built in Unity for PC and major consoles.

There will also be a companion mobile app which will allow users to perform simple functions in the game, like crafting, visiting the auction house, and acquiring ‘seeds’.

SEEDS

Seeds are optional starting locations.  They can only be derived from visiting an actual real-world location and placing a marker.

Seeds provide players with the opportunity to start their game from a location other than their actual, real-world locale.

• The ability to create seeds will possibly be an IAP.
• Players may earn tokens in-game to occasionally create a new seed other than by IAP.
• Seeds will be tradeable on the Auction House

In this way, players can create seeds and sell them to other players to enable someone to say, play as if they’re in New York, or Sydney.

Similarly, a player may go on holiday and create a seed at Narita airport in Japan, so when they arrive back home they can log-in and play with Narita as their starting location and experience the catacombs of the Japanese Underland.

AUCTION HOUSE

An Auction House will be available to players possibly via a one-time IAP (providing them with a Trader’s Licence).

The Auction House will allow players to buy and sell items they have found or crafted in-game.