game-types

% Game Type TODOs

Reviewed 2021-03-03 by japhb

These todo items represent the creation or refinement of entire game types, such as puzzle games or twitch arcade games.

Note: () indicates unimplemented, and may be marked so for an entire genre, particular games, or selected UIs for otherwise implemented games

• General

  • Genre tags searchable by players

  • Support for skill rating

    • And skill matching?

• Test

  • Simple "games" designed to help test MUGS itself

  • "Games"

    • Echo

      • (Optional transforms: testability and config error handling)

• TurnBased ur-genre

  • Next turn hook, advanced enough to handle games with moving start player, changing order, repeated turns, non-integer turn lengths, etc.

  • Additional time limits: per turn and per character

• Guessing -- CLI, WebSimple, (GTK, TUI, WebSPA, WebCanvas)

  • Games

    • NumberGuess -- CLI, WebSimple

    • Snowman -- CLI, WebSimple

    • (FourDigits)

• CardGame

  • Hands/tricks/rounds/games

  • (Subgenres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_game)

    • (Casino)

      • (Poker)

    • (Shedding)

      • (?)

    • (Solitaire)

      • (?)

• BoardGame

  • (Subgenres)

    • (Mancala)

    • (Checkerboard)

      • (Draughts/Checkers)

      • (Chesslike)

  • (Go)

• (Puzzle)

  • Games

    • (?)

• (SimpleArcade)

  • Will need to reduce latency for actions

  • Games

    • ("Snake game" -- GTK, TUI, WebCanvas)

      • (3D first person multiuser snake inside a cube -- WebGL)

    • (Side-scroller schmup -- TUI, WebCanvas)

    • (Side-scroller plaformer -- TUI, WebCanvas)

    • (In general, any 70's/80's-style arcade game, but NOT actual clones)

• IF -- Interactive Fiction

  • WIP: Basic adventure -- CLI, (GTK, TUI, WebSimple)

    • Will need a good natural language parser

  • (MUD -- CLI, TUI, WebSimple)

• (Roguelike)

  • (Single character -- TUI, WebCanvas)

  • (Party RPG -- TUI, WebCanvas)

• (Social)

  • (Chat Room)