[project1dev] Re: Minigames and multiplayer

  • From: eric drewes <figarus@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 16:13:14 -0400

yeah for sure - cool ideas, btw, alan :)

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah language obscenities :P
>
> We could make it something you can turn off in the game settings, but im
> just wondering, if we want our game to get out there and be played, we may
> wanna make it kid friendly in this respect hehe
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:45 PM, katie cook <ktmcook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>   I am on board with all that.
>>
>> What kind of language filtering are you refering to? Obscenities, or
>> other?
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 9/2/09, Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Alan Wolfe <alan.wolfe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [project1dev] Minigames and multiplayer
>> To: project1dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 12:28 PM
>>
>>
>>  Hey so in our game we are going to have some minigames like playing
>> gambling games, snow boarding, dueling maybe, stuff like that...
>>
>> We also want to make at least some of those guys be able to be played
>> multiplayer so we have an open slate for how that works.
>>
>> Here's some things i'm thinkin, I'm sure other people will have some other
>> / different / better ideas :P
>>
>> #1 - When you go to the place in the world where the minigame is played,
>> you can play against AI's, or optionally, play against other humans (and
>> AI's can mix it up in there too perhaps).  To Join a game, you enter the
>> game lobby which is a chat room (maybe you have to set up a login before you
>> can go in, and your login is also used as your login for the game's website
>> forums and things), you find people to play against and play - this is
>> basically like yahoo games except you walk in the game world to where the
>> game is played
>>
>> #2 - Also, once you have played a mini game in the world, the game becomes
>> available from the main menu under a "minigames" section.  This is basically
>> just like yahoo games hehe
>>
>> #3 - when in the world, you can maybe see some kind of high score / leader
>> / ladder boards for the games.  It gets this info from the game server, and
>> these stats are also shown on the website.
>>
>> #4 - We should allow chat while playing the game, should we do language
>> filtering?
>>
>> #5 - it would be neat if when the minigame showed your opponents, it
>> showed their actual 3d model too which should be pretty unique based on the
>> equipment they have etc (:
>>
>> #6 - it would be neat if the website had a headshot or rendered image of
>> the person's character as their avatar for the forums / their personal
>> profile
>>
>> #7 - it would be neat if by doing things in the game world or doing things
>> in minigames against other people, players got awards and metals which were
>> viewable from the website under someone's personal profile.
>>
>> #8 - a persons personal profile on the website could list their progress
>> in the game too maybe
>>
>> What you guys think?
>>
>>
>>
>

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