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[eigenbom]

nam,rek: sorry dudes, you only get to choose 3
imag: well it's a sandbox at its core
jj: true that. that's one of my favourites in the list.

[Ashkin]

Moving blocks, water, and multiplayer.

[C.D Buckmaster]

Big Enemies, Smart NPCs, Multiplayer.

[Franklins Ghost]

Water, multiplayer, crazy stuff.

[happymonster]

Moving blocks, water stuff, towns/cities

[ZAHZERA]

Machines, multiplayer,crazy stuff.

[Geeze]

Modding (we can make our own crazy stufg)
Multiplayer (for crazy coop/vs action)
Smart NPCs (to make the wooorld craaazyyyly more interesting)

[mokesmoe]

Multiplayer, smart NPCs, machines.

[Pemanent]

towns / cities, easy modding, crazy stuff 

[helgravis]

Random map generator and big boss fights!

[eigenbom]

Thanks for all the responses! The poll currently looks like this..


██████ multiplayer: 6
████   moving blocks/machines: 4
███    smart npcs: 3
███    water: 3
██     cities: 2
██     crazy stuff: 2
██     big enemies: 2
██     modding: 2
█      quest: 1
█      castles: 1

[BlueSweatshirt]

Modding, machines, smart npcs.

Do what Notch did and just make a blank slate and let other people make your game good. 

[SolarLune]

Kinda agree with Jak. If all of the other things can be added, then I suppose modding would be good. Even better would be if you got the best mods together and packaged them in with the official game - that way, everyone gets the best features, and you don't have to work as much.

Multiplayer's pretty key, too, though. So my list would probably be:

1. Multiplayer
2. Modding
3. Quests (I get tired of boring quests, or even worse, a game without quests).

[Garrent]

I mostly play single-player so Quests is the big one for me.

[eigenbom]

Update: Did a massive day of refactoring resource management in the engine. I'm doing a few simultaneous things, like renaming, moving, and editing resources, and slowly smooshing the new resource manager into the old one, while pulling the old one's guts out.

For those who are interested in arbitrary detailia, here's a look at how the resources are laid out in the file-system.

-- in directory core\ --
package.sjson
settings.sjson
theme.sjson
block\
 core.blocklist
 dirt.block
 metal.block
 ...
png\
 bg_ambient_sprites.png
 bg_sprites.png
 blocks.png
 moonman.png
 ...
shader\
 blur_h.glsl
 blur_v.glsl
 darken.glsl
 sky.glsl
 ...
sprite\
 ambient\
   bush.sprite
   tree_alive.sprite
   tree_dead.sprite
 animal\
   rabbit.spritemap
 bg\
   cloud\
     small.sprite
     tiny.sprite
 gui\
   itemgrid_24.sprite
   spinner.sprite
 item\
   potion\
     blue.sprite
     empty.sprite
     green.sprite
     orange.sprite
 moonman\
   head.spritemap
   leftarm.spritemap
   legs.spritemap
   moonman.csprite
   rightarm.spritemap
   torso.spritemap
system\
 help.lua
 main.lua
 registry.lua
 ...
ttf\
 bavarg.ttf


The names of resources is then just the relative file names, e.g., ttf/bavarg refers to a font, sprite/moonman/moonman refers to a composite sprite. You also need to know the type of the resource you are accessing, e.g.,

Code:

resourceManager->get("sprite/moonman/moonman","csprite")

[BlueSweatshirt]

That is a pretty sweet system.

[eigenbom]

Update: Another massive day of refactoring. It's a bloody enormous task, but I think it only needs another couple of days work. Then there will be nice centralised resource access. As for the poll, here's the updated results. I'll try and post my thoughts about the results soon, but for now, I'm exhausted and am going home ...


███████ multiplayer
█████   moving blocks/machines
█████   modding
████    smart npcs
███     quests
███     water
██      cities
██      crazy stuff
██      big enemies
█       castles

[rek]

Fine:

Cities
Machines
Crazy Stuff

[happymonster]

I suppose really it's most important what kind of game you want to make - otherwise you will lose interest.

[eigenbom]

I suppose really it's most important what kind of game you want to make - otherwise you will lose interest

Yeh, of course. I think that goes without saying on these forums..