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

[Dave B. <ba...@ma...>]

At 13:10 +0300 22/9/02, moxliukas wrote:
>  > >We could pick up the Monastery as environment - several
>>  >rooms where players and game characters like Node Reaper
>>  >interact in some ways. There could be ways to throw in
>>  >challenges to be solved, and an XP-like score system.
>>  >I'm not a game expert and don't know the right terms for
>>  >what I mean. I'd say it could be a mix of text adventure,
>>  >trivia, chat, role game and maybe some AI characters.
>>  >
>>  But would not such a game take away resources from the site?   Unless
>>  people are going to increase their donations, Vroom might not go for it.
>
>I think what he meant was only borrowing characters and concepts from
>perlmonks, not actually generating traffic and tying the actual perlmonks
>with the game. At least that's what I understood and that was where the
>discussion heading.
>Correct me if I'm wrong.

Absolutely, this would be a separate server/system, perlmonks is 
bogged down enough without gamers using up more valuable bandwidth. I 
believe where we are heading with this is a PM theme... though I 
could be wrong.

Anyway its great to see so many ideas getting thrown around, lets keep it up.

Dave