Welcome to 'Forest' an online multiplayer game placing you in the role of any of three forest creatures in a vast virtual landscape. Talk with others, challenge another forest creature to fight, make enemies, friends, or simply collect the items you find in the forest.
 


Forest was developed using Macromedia Director and the Macromedia Director Multiuser Server.

Forest was created out of both an interest in online gaming and as a compliment to my master’s thesis. For this thesis I am evaluating design and gameplay factors driving the online gaming experience and considerations when creating a game with multiplayer capabilities. My thesis chair was Brian Winn, and Carrie Heeter served on the thesis committee.

You can download an electronic version of the thesis - Methods & Considerations in Online Game Design (pdf).

You can also download our recent CGT2004 Paper Presentation - Design of Communication, Competition, and Collaboration in Online Games (pdf)


  

Designed & Developed by John W Fisher II
feedback - fisher27@msu.edu