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Overview
This wiki covers everything you need to know to make a fun world in Voyage!
Getting started
- A ‘world’ encompasses everything you need to make a custom game in Voyage. The world sets both the environment (genre, aesthetics, locations) and the mechanics (abilities, leveling up, combat difficulty). Worlds can be self contained packages, or players can take a combination of mods and stick them together to create new worlds.
- By creating a world, you are in charge of a play environment, which you can use for yourself, or share with others. Lots of elements go into making a world fun and balanced, and here we will attempt to take you through the process from start to finish.
Concepts
Quick Start
The World Generator is a powerful tool which can make you a fun and ready-to-play world in just a few minutes. All it needs you to do is give an explanation of the basic lore with a few paragraphs, and it will handle the rest!
Customizing Your World
Making a quick world with the World Generator can give you a fun experience, but if you really want to get in depth and customize the world to match your exact vision, we have many detailed tools you can use. The world configuration file is written in JSON, a very simple type of code that helps organize the information, similar to writing an outline of an essay in school.
We will break down examples of how to customize everything in your world, and write your own settings, characters, and mechanics.
In order to create a truly great world, be prepared to spend plenty of time detailing your world, getting feedback from players, and then going back again to make it even better.
How-to guides
Creating a Quick World with the World Generator
Customizing Your Existing World
Customizing Story Starts
Modifying Locations
Alter the world lore, factions, and NPCs to match the theme of my world
Add item slots for tools, weapons, accessories, and potions.
Add Starting Items to the Game
Make Custom Skills
Make Attributes that Fit Your World
Making Custom Resource Behavior
Make Custom Traits
Make Fun and Powerful Custom Classes and Races
Add startingItems to the character based off their traits, skills, and storyStart
Make Custom Abilities
Set Up the Map
Design Custom Quests
How to make Triggers
A Pioneer’s Guide to Voyage (How to Play!)