JUDE'S PROFILE

This idea has some things in common with a project of mine I've been calling Guild Master. Rather than managing a town the player manages a guild of potentially hundreds of heroes (well, maybe not hundreds because that's a lot). The player forms parties out of his heroes and dispatches them on adventures. The ultimate end-game for this project is to remake it as an online game, but that may never happen (though, I have started on some of the basics, to at least get me up to speed with server/client programming).

It's more or less inspired by the Majesty series, except without the RTS mechanics and more depth in the management and simulation mechanics. I have this weird fetish for artificially intelligent agents. When I play games I am intrigued by the way agents act out their will, select targets, and who wins in a fight, etc.

So, I'm looking to build a pretty robust RPG simulator, more or less. Create heroes and watch them carry out their will against other computer agents. I have some excessively ambitious ideas for procedural story generation via random dungeons and complex social interactions between heroes, but some of those are probably too hard.

All I can think of now is kentona and the word sex.

I got tired of this topic when I was 13.

I don't see battle arenas as a mini-game--just as a separate stage on which to execute existing core mechanics.