RE: [Cplp-dev] An idea for a game

[Mathew S. <msh...@sy...>]

Hmmm

I don't know about the card games as I have seen my workers here playing 
the versions on Yahoo.

The games is more for the developers but would we not need a base of 
players for bug detection etc?

As the time zones, we could make the game so that it is 24 hours play time.

I do remember a game that was back in the BBS days (no I am not that old! ;P)

Basically it centered on the concept of guilds.    You had guild leaders, 
guild halls, merchants, etc.

You did things like defended your guild hall against the others as you 
could get your funds raided, graffitied on the guild message board.

There was also an underworld that you could do for adventuring.

It was not really interactive but if your turns ended and you were at a 
spot, you could get attacked by other players.   Basically, your player 
becomes an NPC to them.

So you go to bed wake up the next day and found that SO and SO killed you 
and took your stuff.

There should not be any legality stuff because this was about 20 years ago 
and I know the guy basically gave up with computers....

Just my .02


At 10:04 AM 9/21/2002 -0400, Michael Eaton wrote:
> > Just to put in my 0.02c I actually like your (Petras) idea of moving
> > away from the standard RPGs (D&D, Call of Cthulhu etc), the
> > underlying design of the game 'should' be capable of supporting many
> > themes (maybe something to think about?). Having a Perl theme linked
> > with PM seems to me a good idea, we'd get more support from the
> > community and it would be an original approach to an old idea, not to
> > mention quite amusing (I like the idea of doing battle with
> > NodeReaper).
> >
> > I'm in this mainly to see how a collaborative project can work, we
> > use CVS at my work but SouceForge 'seems' a good idea, has anyone
> > used SourceForge before? We should also sort out at some point who
> > has the skills to do each job HTML, SQL,Perl, Graphics design etc.
> >
> > Having a 'real-time' "talk/fight/trade/whatever" system wouldn't
> > really work IMO as the time zones would mean only certain players
> > would ever meet each other at certain times, this will require some
> > nifty thinking to come up with a new approach.
>
>Just to throw a curve-ball at you guys, what would you all think about
>something other than a game?  I agree with Dave that time zones will
>affect the design of pretty much any game we think of, but it wouldn't
>affect a more practical application (something business or
>home-related).  Since this is a learning project, it obviously needs to
>hold the interest of those involved, but it also needs to be big enough
>so there are enough tasks to go around.
>
>I realize a game is something many will be interested in, I just hope we
>don't get bogged down with making a decision.  The only other project of
>this type that I've even been remotely involved in has taken almost 2
>years to even decide the direction they want to go (it's a Delphi
>project for creating a business application framework).
>
>The way I see it, as it relates to games, is like this:
>
>1. Multi-player, RPG-type game
>2. Single-player, RPG-type game
>3. Single-player, board-type game
>4. Multi-player, board-type game
>5. Multi-player, card-type game
>6. Single-player, card-type game
>
>As for the RPG-type games, I think we all agree that it would be cool to
>tie it to Perl Monks somehow and integrate things like Node Reaper, etc.
>The challenge here would be to create something original that wouldn't
>limit either the "theme" of the game or the ability of people spread
>over the planet to play.
>
>The board-type games could be things like trivia (something akin to
>Jeopardy, Trivial Pursuit, etc.) that would be flexible enough for
>either a single-player or multiple players as well as having customized
>categories, questions and answers.
>
>Card games....well, anything goes here...there are a lot of games out
>there, many require single players, many require multiple.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>mike
>
>
>
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