World Tour - Wizards and Warriors: Massively Multiplayer Online Game Creation - page 181

Figure 10.12
The Year Setup dialog box.

The options within the Year Setup dialog box are as follows:

n Year length : How long is the year; the default is to 365.
n Month: This drop-down box allows you to configure up to 20 months
within your year. The settings for length/time are changeable for each
month.
n Name : The name associated with the particular month number; in this
case month 1 is January.
n Length : The number of days in a month.
n Time compression : A game world

s time is not usually the same as the
real world, so an hour in the game does not equal an hour in playtime.
The reason that they are different is generally because players would
rarely see game world interactions such as the sun rising or setting if
they never play at the times when that would occur. Game worlds are
usually sped up so that the player spends a few hours playing the game,
and this equates to a day or two in the game world. The default setting

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