World's first postmodern MMORPG
by Joshua Dallman · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 09/08/2004 (12:44 am) · 17 replies
You've seen Roller Coaster Tycoon, Railroad Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, and Deep Sea Tycoon.
Now, get ready for the Tycoon to Tycoon them all...
MMORPG TYCOON
Now MMORPG fans can own a virtual treasure trove of fun and creative experience by exploring every aspect of building and running their very own MMORPGs. The choices are nearly limitless! Players can choose from a wide range of MMORPG types, customize the game, then sell it in the open market as they search for a distributor and slowly go bitter, bankrupt, and suicidal! Compete with hundreds of other MMORPG tycoons online and watch as your MMORPG gets swallowed by competitors with bigger budgets and better ideas. Massive server sizes means massive fun!
- Create and customize your own MMORPG
- Sell and support the ultimate MMORPG by modding a preexisting one or creating one from scratch
- Use the MMORPG Designer(tm) to rapidly create the ultimate MMORPG experience
- New and unique themes, including Fantasy, Wild West, Pirates, Futuristic, blended variations, and more
- Trade MMORPG game assets and challenge other MMORPG developers online
- A variety of characters, weapons, decorations, landscapes, and themes to create the ultimate MMORPG
- Raise the monthly subscription prices, monitor your customers, use creative marketing, hire or fire your staff
- Track your financial performance to avoid bankruptcy
Platform: Windows/Macintosh
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Note: MMORPG Tycoon requires a monthly subscription fee to compete with other players online
Now, get ready for the Tycoon to Tycoon them all...
MMORPG TYCOON
Now MMORPG fans can own a virtual treasure trove of fun and creative experience by exploring every aspect of building and running their very own MMORPGs. The choices are nearly limitless! Players can choose from a wide range of MMORPG types, customize the game, then sell it in the open market as they search for a distributor and slowly go bitter, bankrupt, and suicidal! Compete with hundreds of other MMORPG tycoons online and watch as your MMORPG gets swallowed by competitors with bigger budgets and better ideas. Massive server sizes means massive fun!
- Create and customize your own MMORPG
- Sell and support the ultimate MMORPG by modding a preexisting one or creating one from scratch
- Use the MMORPG Designer(tm) to rapidly create the ultimate MMORPG experience
- New and unique themes, including Fantasy, Wild West, Pirates, Futuristic, blended variations, and more
- Trade MMORPG game assets and challenge other MMORPG developers online
- A variety of characters, weapons, decorations, landscapes, and themes to create the ultimate MMORPG
- Raise the monthly subscription prices, monitor your customers, use creative marketing, hire or fire your staff
- Track your financial performance to avoid bankruptcy
Platform: Windows/Macintosh
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Note: MMORPG Tycoon requires a monthly subscription fee to compete with other players online
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#2
09/08/2004 (1:15 am)
How about making a strategy game about amateurs making MMORPGs? It'd be almost impossible to win, ofcourse. 
#3
09/08/2004 (1:18 am)
Don't think you can copyright the word Tycoon. Just the specific use of it so Fridge magnet Tycoon is a perfectly legal name for a game so is fish catcher tycoon etc
#4
09/08/2004 (1:30 am)
LMAO! 
#5
Heh - talk about a niche audience, but I'd buy this one in a heartbeat!
Or you can build your own MMORPG and play it for real - though I hear the game is REALLY REALLY hard... and expensive.
09/08/2004 (8:28 am)
LOL!!!!Heh - talk about a niche audience, but I'd buy this one in a heartbeat!
Or you can build your own MMORPG and play it for real - though I hear the game is REALLY REALLY hard... and expensive.
#6
I say make it. :-)
09/09/2004 (11:47 am)
Technically, names are trademarked, not copywritten, but yeah, changing it even slightly is enough to make you safe.I say make it. :-)
#7
... I love you guys
09/09/2004 (11:57 am)
Lol, leave it to the GG community to take a joke and tun it into a debate about copyrights :-P... I love you guys
#8
10/03/2005 (1:50 pm)
Wouldn't you know it, there actually is a game similar to this called Game Tycoon! not only that but our very own Eric Petersen was the localization producer.
#9
10/03/2005 (2:05 pm)
Thats pretty cool actually. I think a game based on a company making games as a RTS would be pretty fun actually. hint hint the story of Dynamix and Garage Games getting started. :) I'd definately buy a game like that. 
#10
I hope the idea does actually go somewhere because it has promise.
10/14/2005 (4:26 pm)
I'd have to agree with those who think that this is a good game idea. I'd definitely buy a game like this were it actually developed. The self-referential humor appeals to me as does the idea of yet another tycoon game to play because I dig those.I hope the idea does actually go somewhere because it has promise.
#11
10/14/2005 (4:33 pm)
I'd play it
#12
10/16/2005 (9:49 pm)
This is funny I because I was recently thinking about making "GID: The Game" for my next GID. =)
#13
if you made an online world where you basically rolled all the different tycoons into one persistent world...
the goal, besides the enjoyment of management and enjoyment of each type of facility (some like all that goes into a zoo or a restaurant) ...would be to amass the largest fortune.
There might be heavy balance issues regarding where NPCs went and how much disposable cash they had...but might be fun as hell.
11/02/2005 (6:43 am)
Actually...if you made an online world where you basically rolled all the different tycoons into one persistent world...
the goal, besides the enjoyment of management and enjoyment of each type of facility (some like all that goes into a zoo or a restaurant) ...would be to amass the largest fortune.
There might be heavy balance issues regarding where NPCs went and how much disposable cash they had...but might be fun as hell.
#14
11/19/2005 (8:47 pm)
Well, a "Videogames Developer Tycoon" would be cool!
#15
12/28/2005 (12:30 pm)
Sewage Tycoon would be good. You'd have to know how to manage your (and everyone elses), um, stuff. 
#16
it's a stroll thru part of the actual paris sewers with typical museum stuff along the way.
it's some seriously fascinating, um, stuff.
12/28/2005 (12:58 pm)
If yr ever in Paris, France, i highly recommend the Sewer Museum.it's a stroll thru part of the actual paris sewers with typical museum stuff along the way.
it's some seriously fascinating, um, stuff.
#17
This is funny, I think 80% of people get into game developement to do MMORPGs
and its sad because there are so many other fun games out there to make!
GO MARBLE BLAST!!!
08/30/2006 (8:21 am)
First off, I know this is from last year, but I read it and grinned.This is funny, I think 80% of people get into game developement to do MMORPGs
and its sad because there are so many other fun games out there to make!
GO MARBLE BLAST!!!
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