Games

A friend of mine recently proposed his idea for a muck/php/mysql game. I got to thinking about it and realized, "Ah, I can do it with Drupal."

But I was disappointed to find the apparently dismal state of games on Drupal. What's going on? Is there any development in making a tabletop game construction framework?

Hello. I'm a little apprehensive about posting-I've just recently been exposed to Drupal, and have little to no experience with website design. I am eager to learn, however, and everything I've discovered about Drupal leads me to believe that I could use it to do exactly what I want-that is, run a roleplaying game online. With that in mind, I've joined the games group and would welcome any advice y'all would have for me.

The games BoF in DC was great, but it got me wondering if some of the tools that are being built here are being too narrowly marketed. Specifically, the room exploration games that are being done could be billed as "simulations". Basically you're providing a way for a non-admin, non-coder to set up an environment and let users wander about in it. That's a powerful tool that could also be useful for:

Per discussions on the IRC #drupal-games channel and at http://drupal.org/node/354651, we plan to merge the Games and game APIs group with the Games group. All existing nodes and users will be moved over, and the Games and game APIs group will be deleted. In the process, we'll also change the maintainer(s) to Morbus, litwol, and/or myself.

Please comment on this thread and/or the issue queue with any thoughts or concerns.

Thanks,
Aaron

Just released the new Game Character module.

From the project page:

The Game Character module provides a structure and API for Game Character nodes on your site. You can set one or more node types to be Game Character types from the Game Character administration page, at admin/settings/game_characters. At that point, any nodes of that type will be set as game characters, which may be activated by the owning user, or any user with administrative permissions.

Consider a game in which battle is the (first thing to be finished). In this game you, as a player, take a collection of units (forming your army), and battle other armies. Armies can be made up of other players (other Drupal users), but armies can also be owned by an AI. A number of questions arise: is AI necessary in a community of healthy real-life users? Should the AI be a set of logic only, or should it take advantage of code that's already written, with Drupal users being automated by that logic?

World Wide Games owns a popular gaming site www.game-boyz.com. The site is staffed by volunteers. We are looking for a experienced Drupal programmer(s) to look after ongoing mtc,site strategy, new developments, R&D and yes loads of games and PC hardware.

The site is headquartered on Vancouver island and staff located in Canada & U.S. We are also looking to establish a stronger international presence and help in this area will be greatly appreciated.

Hello, my name is Leandro, I'm from argentina, i just wanted to show a site that i developed with drupal: www.clanstug.com.ar, it's for a clan of gamers of the game "call of duty: united ofensive". There are still some details to finish, but basically it's completed. I'm quite happy with this site because it's the "cleanest" drupal site i've done. I've recently began undertanting module developments and advance theming tecniques so i applied all those new skills to the site. I managed to get a cross-browsing design and it came up quite nice.

This site uses flashnode and a custom module to embed flash games, and let them report back to Drupal High Scores, which are stored by Drupal and reported back in various blocks.

Check it out:

http://www.StarWestGames.com

You'll need to sign up an account to try the Score Saving features.

Once beta is complete, the module will be released on Drupal.org.

Roadmap:

Save Game state support
Views Integration of Score data
Userpoints Integration