I heard my friend mentioning of some kind of sandbox game. He said you can design your own levels/settings and then role-play anything you like in them through a mixture of in-game actions and typing out further details. This can be anything from medieval fantasy, to vampires or even space. Anyone know of such a game? He never told me the title...

I don't think that exists. but I want it to.

Well, according to my friend, he said it does. He says the graphics aren't great, but you get items that you can use to build various settings. You then invite a group of people together and you role-play in the settings, using some of the game's internal actions and then typing out more explicit details of what you are doing. He said he did one where they were doing vampires versus slayers, another in a medieval fantasy world like Skyrim, and one set in the Star Wars universe even. It sounded amazing and he wouldn't make stuff up. It wasn't designed as an RPG, but he said it was sandbox and you could thus do that.

Sounds like some sort of toolset/engine like RPG maker.

No. It definitely wasn't an RPG Maker, but a sandbox game that had a construction aspect and multiplayer with built-in chat. You could also, or so my friend said, change how your character looked to match the role-play. Using this, he said you would dress your character appropriate for the role-play and then go around different settings people had made. You'd fight each other using some basic in-game actions and then typing out explicit details (e.g. "I snatch the cloth from your pocket") in a chat box. He said it was the most fun he ever had in a video-game because, with a group of friends, they created their own worlds and stories.

Gary's Mod?

I own Garry's Mod and, whilst I know that tons of stuff is possible within that game, I know for a fact he wasn't referring to that. We have played it together and, unlike this game, he didn't enjoy Garry's Mod. He also said that setting up the "settings" was really easy. You just used preset items and blocks or something. Garry's Mod is a little complex...

About the only game with that sort of construction aspect I can think of is Furcadia. People use the DreamMaker to create their own worlds (complete with custom skins and objects) and 'programmed' using the built in Dragon Speak.

It's called: a pen and paper.

No. It definitely isn't Furcadia looking at it and I know for a fact that it is a sandbox game - not RPG maker.

It might be Minecraft actually. Apparently that's got the capability for such a thing?

Did your friend say whether or not this was a fairly newish program or something old? I can't really think of much.....couldn't be Second Life, could it?

...minecraft certainly has blocks ... I have no clue about its multiplayer, however.


edit:one day my fingers will unlearn their pesky habit of auto-typing it's when I mean its.

Minecraft apparently has Command Blocks now on the PC version (only played Xbox for the last few months), which allow you to be transported into different segments of the map. This could be used to create different "settings", I suppose. It also has the ability to change your appearance through skins and it does have a chat-box for describing actions that can't be actually done in the game. As for how old my friend said it was, he did not. It must be fairly old though, because he says he has played tons of it - like 600 hours or something ridiculous!

Sounds like something you should ask your friend.

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