Devlog - Legend of the Abyss

[Carl-Richard]

Meanwhile, I'm playing an unofficial restoration of a 22 year old game.

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What is Lost City?

Lost City is focused on RuneScape preservation through open-source accessibility.

We are an initiative that has been ongoing since 2022 to recreate and restore forever-lost RuneScape 2 versions.

The old game will only live in fleeting memories otherwise. Jagex has no backups.

Development is at a steady hobbyist pace - after 2 years of active open-source development (2023) we hosted Lost City publicly for players in 2025.

If you want to help, potential contributors are encouraged to visit our development Discord to chat with us. We can teach people willing to learn.

https://lostcity.rs/t/faq-what-is-lost-city/16

Edited yesterday at 01:20 AM by Carl-Richard

[LordFall]

17 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Meanwhile, I'm playing an unofficial restoration of a 22 year old game.

https://lostcity.rs/t/faq-what-is-lost-city/16

I played runescape a bit in school, I didn't get into it I'm french so I ended up falling for another popular mmorpg at the time Dofus.

I like the job system from runescape, I like systems so the different jobs going from 1-99 seems cool to me.

Can you elaborate on what you like about the game and why you still play it all these years later?

Also why do you think the MMORPG and gaming industry as a whole is stagnating? Seems a lot of the biggest mainstream games are just reverting their game back to 10 years ago and people are liking that more than their new versions. Happened to World of Warcraft, Runescape, Dofus and League of Legends now also released a classic mode that is just the 2014 game. 

@Leo Gura Chris Roberts the founder of star citizen is apparently a black sheep in the game dev industry and is known for being a narcissistic micromanager that's clearly destroying the actual business efficiency of Cloud Imperium Games to produce actual value for their customers.

Edited 8 hours ago by LordFall

[AerisVahnEphelia]

VR is shit, but I would like a huge mmo who is the pursuit of guild wars (1) with more deep lore like WoW.

[AerisVahnEphelia]

On 10/06/2026 at 4:50 PM, Leo Gura said:

Game development with AI is very deceptive because early on in development it seems like you're making rapid progress, but late on in development you will realize how much of an illusion that was. Game development gets exponentially harder as you try to ship a commercially meaningful game. The complexity of the game multiplies. The bugs multiply.

It's relatively easy to make half-assed unpolished game prototypes. What's really hard is creating a shippable, polished, commercial game.

But hey! I'm not saying it's impossible. Of course there are ways to leverage AI to help you make games faster. I'm just saying you should not expect it to be as easy as the AI hype-mongers claim.

Good luck with your game! I hope you succeed.

AI is very far away for making full games if you're a noob.

I think AI is good to complete your code or your ideas when you're ALREADY an expert at something, it complete an expertise but don't replace a true expertise and years of contemplation and epistemology in a domain.

[Leo Gura]

A chatbot will never make a good video game. Pure nonsense.

[LordFall]

7 minutes ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

VR is shit, but I would like a huge mmo who is the pursuit of guild wars (1) with more deep lore like WoW.

What don't you like about VR? How uncomfortable the headsets are or you don't believe in the concept fundamentally even if they made the headsets way better? 

[AerisVahnEphelia]

5 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

A chatbot will never make a good video game. Pure nonsense.

No, it won't, but it will increase ideation and improve speed.

Also, it's crazy that people still underestimate GPT, especially the latest versions.

I've seen crazy stuff built with Claude. Sure, COMPARED to a real game, it's still shit, but many are already better than games made by solo indie devs.

I mean, currently it's shit, but what even is a chatbot? Neural networks are almost magical. No one really understands what makes them "understand" the meaning of words in the first place.

Stats alone can't explain reasoning, and they do have some form of it.

Will chatbots replace game dev? Certainly not. But the next iteration of AI, built with the help of chatbots or in association with them, might.

but what even is a chatbot : no fucking clue.

we got this magic box that spit words and sometimes does words really create something new from the old.
 

[AerisVahnEphelia]

14 minutes ago, LordFall said:

What don't you like about VR? How uncomfortable the headsets are or you don't believe in the concept fundamentally even if they made the headsets way better? 

the headset is annoying indeed. not confortable.

We aren't there yet to my taste.

[LordFall]

33 minutes ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

the headset is annoying indeed. not confortable.

We aren't there yet to my taste.

Yeah, that's fair. I think it'll 10 years it'll be the new thing but right now the headset is a huge problem.

This girl is blowing up with her AI videos on Instagram. I'll give it a go and report back if it worked. If I can start getting tens of thousands of views on the Legends of the Abyss instagram then that's gonna be the start of a customer base. Fuck then I'll have to really code the game asap haha let's get it going! 

 

[Leo Gura]

1 hour ago, AerisVahnEphelia said:

improve speed.

By 5%  maybe.