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[roboto]

I see discussion threads for modding. But not games!

So here it is.

Post away.

[firefox]

how about the option of letting the subgame alter the mapgen settings without having you manually edit the word file ;)

let's say we have a fantasy steampunk themed subgame with lots of movement enhancing tools like grapling hooks and mechanical wings.
then you would have the optipn to choose any mapgen you like, but the parameters are automatically adjusted to generate more crazy terrain with steep mountains and cliffs and floatlands.

[ThomasMonroe]

ever since playing BlackVoxel i've had an idea for a metalurgy based world

[Punk]

I thought something like a small world (maybe 128³ or 256³ nodes) with a hard scarcity, and the player needs conserve resources, maybe could have pollution and clear systems. Damn, I don't remember what I thought...

[ThomasMonroe]

I had a crazy idea for a subgame that is which team(out of four or eight) can claim the most amount of land in a single day, once a day, the map would reset, and it would all start again the next day.

[dawgdoc]

I had a crazy idea for a subgame that is which team(out of four or eight) can claim the most amount of land in a single day, once a day, the map would reset, and it would all start again the next day.

Using and having to place protector blocks would make this much harder than the areas mod where you just claim based on coordinates. Mostly due to the mining to get the mese to craft the blocks.

[ThomasMonroe]

right, thats what I was talking about
however the protector blocks can be dug by anyone, but they still protect the surrounding area

[Thermal_Shock]

I'd like to see someone take a crack at one of those extreme microcrafting type games that are popular with the Minecraft crowd. I'm fairly sure they're only made to be massive time sinks.

[ThomasMonroe]

pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean microcrafting?

[Thermal_Shock]

pardon my ignorance, but what do you mean microcrafting?

Generally it refers to complex and tedious crafting recipes that take a lot of steps to complete.

Say you're a modder and have a mod with a machine in it. Instead of using the materials commonly found in the game like wood and ingots you instead decide to make the player work for it. First metal plates are needed, those are crafted by another machine that needed to be built to process your ingots into the plate. Next you need circuits, these are created by two types of wires, three types of integrated circuits, and a printed circuit board. The bare wire has to be manually crafted with an ingot and special tool in the crafting slot, then the jacket for the wire has to be manually crafted as well with rubber processed from a tree. The IC chips require another machine that uses a special compressed and shaped ingot that is then arranged in a specific pattern for the IC chip type you need. The circuit boards have to be scavenged from dungeon chests because some guy that uses your mod made a mean comment on your youtube video so you hate everyone and everything about your life now. Oh and your machine needs a tier 8 machine frame that is crafted from 9 tier 7 machine frames. After several hundred ingots, other processed materials and 30 mins of crafting you now have a shiny new machine. That machine is needed for that other machine you want to make.

The above nonsense is why I try to keep things as simple as possible in the stuff I make.

[SonosFuer]

Would anyone be interested in a fallout style game? I am thinking about drawing out some game design for one. Do you guys have any thoughts?

[firefox]

Would anyone be interested in a fallout style game? I am thinking about drawing out some game design for one. Do you guys have any thoughts?

if i remember correctly, there was some kind of nuclear waste mod.
it contained "contaminated nodes" with a different colour palette that damage nearby players.
in combination with a method of "purification" to make the land usable, this would be interesting.

[SonosFuer]

I will have to track that down! Is there anyone out there interested in helping make this?

[rubenwardy]

A few things I have on my to do list, but I've never got around to making:

Capitalism

Players form companies which can run shops, factories, and resource extraction facilities. These facilities are automated and run whilst the player is offline. The income is paid into the company's account, and then optionally paid out as dividends. To stop hyper-inflation, VAT is charged at every step and paid into a government account. Senator members can be elected to government, and can set policies after popular votes.

The craft chain would need to be reasonably complex such that one player can't possibly do everything. There should be a research cost to unlocking craft. Companies start with a certain amount of research points, and can gain points over time.

Individual players can buy the things they need, and be employed by companies.

See here for progress I made: https://github.com/rubenwardy/economy_mp/

Greek/Roman Mythology

Players enter the world and can choose their Godly parent. The player gets certain unique actions depending on their godly parent, for example children of Zeus/Jupiter can summon lightning and push air. The player doesn't start with all actions unlocked, and their mana would start off weak (so can't summon much or for long).

The player can improve their mana and other abilities by using them.

The world should be partially procedurally generated and partially pre-made. The spawn city should be premade, and quests should be stored in schematics and then instanced for each player (so they don't bump into other players, or see evidence of other player, when doing a quest). Daedalus' Labyrinth should be procedurally generated and always present under the world. Entering the labyrinth should be a dangerous but affective way to gain experience and occasional treasures - unless you die.

When a player dies, any progress since their last save point is lost. If they're in a quest they can choose to exist the quest, in which point any progress in the quest is lost and they go back to the position they were at before the quest. Quests should be skyrim-style in that there are multiple available at a time.

See here for progress I made: https://github.com/rubenwardy/mythology_modpack/

[pandaro]

Block&Role

The foundations of the "old school" role-playing game reinvent the new voxel paradigm.

Choose a race, each with different physical characteristics.
Improve the character card.
Gather experience.
Empower skills.
Create better weapons.
Launches spells.
Explore an ever-changing world with dozens of strange biomes.
Trade with smart shopkeepers.
Explore exterminated caves.
Fight, get well, survive.
Complete daring missions and discover the secret of this land.

For the glory

A few things I have on my to do list, but I've never got around to making:

Capitalism

Players form companies which can run shops, factories, and resource extraction facilities. These facilities are automated and run whilst the player is offline. The income is paid into the company's account, and then optionally paid out as dividends. To stop hyper-inflation, VAT is charged at every step and paid into a government account. Senator members can be elected to government, and can set policies after popular votes.

The craft chain would need to be reasonably complex such that one player can't possibly do everything. There should be a research cost to unlocking craft. Companies start with a certain amount of research points, and can gain points over time.

Individual players can buy the things they need, and be employed by companies.

See here for progress I made: https://github.com/rubenwardy/economy_mp/

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This is very nice

[Orby]

I have an idea for a mechanic for a new game. The basic motivation is to encourage players to share resources either through trading and economic activity, or cooperation.

Crafting recipes are all shapeless but require a blueprint item as part of their recipe. Blueprints are difficult to craft (require rare materials) but are crafted in large quantities. For example: a mining laser recipe may require 2 metal, 1 glass, 1 diode, and 1 mining laser blueprint to craft. These materials (with the exception of the blueprint) may be relatively common and easy to obtain. The mining laser blueprint may require 9 gold (or some other very rare block) to craft 99 copies. It might make sense to create a special "research" block which is required in blueprint recipes.

If 9 players each have 1 gold, it would behoove them all to pool their gold and share the resulting stack of blueprints. Alternately, if one player bought all of the gold from the other 9 players, they could craft a big stack of blueprints and sell them for substantial profit.

Just thought the blueprint idea was interesting and was wondering if anyone else would like to see something like this.

[patrick55]

One hour One life. I think that is a great idea.

[ThomasMonroe]

I'd really like to see some sort of system where you can unlock crafting recipes as you play along the game and accumulate certain amounts of items in your inventory.