MazeWorld (no ontology)

From Mazeworld

Revision as of 04:50, 6 September 2012

Welcome!

Welcome to MazeWiki, the online resource about the roleplay Mazeworld.
Mazeworld, or MzW in shortened form, is the realm in which your character evolves, having to fight his or her way to victory by going through its rooms, to find suitable weapons, appropriate clothing, and useful items of many kinds, to fend off all of the menaces that will come in the way. The ultimate goal of every contestant is to retrieve the four Cardinal Amulets, through finding or winning them, to be able to leave the realm and return home.

We've moved from the Wikidot platform to this website. If you still have the old wiki in your bookmarks, please update them to this page instead. Join us now on IRC! Server: irc.rizon.net - Channel: #MazeWorld

Are you new? Check the FAQ! Do you want to sign up and play? Read the Newcomer's Guide!

Click here to access the chatroom!
The rules on the channel - read and understand them before accessing the channel.

Read the logs of all the latest games here!

Please consider making a donation. Your generosity is invaluable and helps the author!

The current version of the game is v2.1 - 5512 events.
A total of 47 contestants have been registered.
View the leaderboards!

Memorable quotes of the game, both in-game and off-game sessions. Read these to see the best moments of Mazeworld!

WARNING: Reading this wiki may reveal important spoilers about the game. Certain features of the game may be NSFW as well. Read at your own risk! This will be your only spoiler alert.

MazeWorld: The realm

Mazeworld itself is a mysterious realm, said to be created by the Game Masters themselves where the very notion of time and space are distorted and different from our world. The realm itself is a series of mysterious rooms, connected with each others using seemingly innocuous doors, stairways and trapdoors. From the contestant's perspective, Mazeworld has no real map, and crossing a door acts as a sort of passive teleportation, never to send into the same rooms each time; although for the Mazes' inhabitants themselves, this perception is a little different.

A common trend in Mazeworld's rooms is that they seem to be dilapidated, abandoned or sometimes, wrecked and damaged. More often than not, the contestant will find that all of the machinery that is there, if there is any, is non-working or malfunctioning, and that there is rarely any peaceful life ever encountered.
The contestant's progress determinates, at certain intervals, the appearance of special rooms that may help the contestant in his or her progress, or tasks to do for other characters, often in exchange of a reward.

According to the Game Masters, Mazeworld is "the world between all worlds, located in the Interloper of the Universe", which may explain the variety of creatures and items that can be encountered inside the Mazes, and how contestants may end up here after their life in their respective homeworlds.

MazeWorld: The game

It must be noted that both the spellings 'Mazeworld' and 'MazeWorld' are valid. MzW is the shortened form.

Mazeworld is the result of several years of thought, past concepts, and a general wish to create a reliable game with a lot of content, such as a high weapon variety, a feel of endlessness and a constant sense of danger. Over the years, it went through many tries, many game types and even many names - 2D platformer, computer RPG, RPG forum, all of the ideas failed to appeal to the author, until it became what it is: a digital "pen-and-paper"-type RPG, with dice, random number generators, Excel sheets for characters, and a fair bit of other files.

The current form of Mazeworld has been created on February 10th, 2011. It has existed before then as a private game with simple notepad sheets and dice scripts on MSN using Plus! scripts, and so for a few months, but it was arguably in a conceptual stage, with a lot to improve and work on. 10/02/2011 marks the day the game went on IRC, which is the main way to play MazeWorld as of today, and the one I intended.

Read the Timeline of Mazeworld to know more about the past of the project.

MzW games are held by the author, which has grown from the smaller-scale games on MSN to a better organized format on IRC, as explained in the above linked article. For the moment, the author has no plans to port MzW to an actual computer game format, although he has expressed the wish to find suitable artists and programmers for this to happen one day. He has also considered hiring other Game Masters so that more people could play, but not until he feels the game is complete in his eyes; until there is nothing he can add to it, the author wants the game to remain 'his', in a way.

The purpose of this wiki is to serve as an encyclopedia about the game, for the author's and the players' needs, anyone's curiosity, and perhaps to attract your interest to become a player, if you are not one yet.

The wiki is currently seeking for artists to illustrate the many articles! More information on this page.

If you are interested, we invite you to check the FAQ to know about the basics. If you have any further questions concerning this game, please drop by on the IRC channel and talk to me there (my nickname is usually SU_Tempest).

Main menu

• Statistics
• Abilities
• Gameplay mechanics
• Secondary effects
• Physio code
• Telephone network

• Weapons
• Weapon accessories
• Ammunition
• Food
• Medical aids
• Clothing and armor
• Bionics
• Valuables
• Key items
• Encounters
• Crafting
• Supply crates
• Traps
• Rooms and Miscellaneous rooms
• Other topics

• Contestants
• Characters
• Startgame
• Missions
• Endgame
• Special events

Legal Notice

MazeWorld, MzW, the game concept, its rules, its characters (except player-generated characters) and all related information and data is © Tempest 2009-2012. All other trademarks, brand names and other such names used in the game that isn't mine are © their respective owners. I claim no ownership on those names, and only use them for flavor and realism purposes.