[Pybem-developers] Ideas

[Anthony B. <ab...@ii...>]

Here are some ideas for the sorts of game we might consider 
supporting. A wide array would be good, if only because it'll help 
get us out of the Atlantis mould:

turn-based war games:
The obvious one. Atlantis, wyreth, et al are what inspired this 
project in the first place.  There could be many different genres, 
though - a civil war game, WWII mission, or a city-based game.

other turn-based games:
I reckon that pretty much any turn-based game is up for grabs. Civ, 
Civ II, Masters of Orion I&II, possibly even things like Star Fleet 
Battles (not that I'd ever want to play it, but someone might)

non-simultaneous games:
ie game where people take turns - Chess, Draughts, Go, tic-tac-toe ( 
this has potential as a tutorial) etc.

wackiness:
What about a version of Pimpwar? Or Bartok?

the map:
We're not limited to a simple, hex-based map. We could make a 
three-dimensional one, if we were writing a space game. We could make 
a simple, ten-'hex' map with American cities, for Pimpwar, or an 8x8 
board for Chess. Players could even have orders to be able to create 
their own hexes. Actually, that's a really good idea for my mage game 
;)

programming games:
Like codewar, or robowar(?). In most games, scripting can really take 
the micromanagement out of running a large faction, even if we don't 
specifically write a game as a coding exercise, so I think it's 
something worthwhile to do (just not right now). Creating some sort 
of bastion function with limited access to a unit's functions would 
let players script their monsters in python(!)

Hope this gets you thinking... I'm off to bed.

Ant
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