Games

Assuming the administrator gives access, anonymous users may now create and compete with characters at 5 Second Game (which is powered by the module of the same name). Additionally, if an anonymous user registers or logs in, they'll be able to claim that character as their own, allowing for saving any statistics, etc.

The EmptyCrate Game Engine is a Drupal and Flash based game engine which allows for the creating of point and click adventure style games as a set of drupal modules and playing of those games via a Flash application, written fully in ActionScript.

The full project announcement is available at blog.emptycrate.com. A hosted game site where anyone is free to play with the engine and make their own games is available at game.emptycrate.com. Also, the first test of this engine was to create an entry to the 2008 Christian Developers Network speed game competition. The entry is avaible here, to demonstrate what is currently possible with the engine.

Weigh in on http://drupal.org/node/218885

Thanks,
Aaron Winborn

5 Second Game (showcase site for the 5 Second Game engine)
Spindowners (an upcoming sci-fi rpg being developed with the RPG module)
Drupal RPG (home for the Drupal RPG module)

The engine for 5 Second Game is built on a Rock-Scissors-Paper concept. There are three stats, corresponding to that, and everything modifies that: character classes, skills, combat, etc. It is meant to be a fast paced, easy to grasp, infinitely extensible game.

The game is designed to be fit into an embeddable widget, so that users may post the game in a blog or other page, allowing others to quickly and easily play the game. A widget may highlight that user's character, challenging all takers.

The game lends itself well to guilds and the like as well, which are also built into the system. Characters may belong to one or more guilds, which govern themselves as desired by their players. The system honors the guilds' wishes, so that characters belonging to a specific user-formed guild might gain certain bonuses (or suffer penalties) according to the guild charters.

Additionally, servers may choose to allow characters to migrate between certain other servers. The character may be "translated" during migration, so that world/genre integrity is maintained (if desired). However, the simplicity of the system lends itself easily to that, if an administrator doesn't mind a gun-toting sheriff to arrive at the scene of a medieval tournament, or conversely if the player of a high elf wizard doesn't mind being translated to a nanobotic engineer on a space station.

You can play the game at http://5secondgame.com to see it in action (once it's built...)

So I have recently implemented and committed RPG Achieve in the RPG module series for Drupal. This allows games to record achievements of players, such as "You have slain 14 dragons", or "You were the first to summit Ploggers Peak". Next in that progression will be RPG Quest, which will allow achievements to be grouped together.

I am looking of a way to increase stickness to my Drupal powered business index.
Light games seem like an interesting option.

Some ideas:
1. Random picture => identify the business.
2. Weekly Polls with Prizes.
3. Crossword / Puzzle module (e.g. like here).
4. Complete tasks to earn points.

Which modules do you recommend?
And do you have other game ideas which encourage stickness?

Thanks in advance,

Amnon

I created a module that provides an API for "real-time" games and I'm ready to make an original contribution, but I'm not entirely sure what to name the module. The name that I've used so far (game_api) would just create confusion and conflicts with existing game APIs, so I'm looking for suggestions.

I'm going to bring up an old discussion now. I don't think there's been much discussion in forums (but if so, maybe someone can dig up some posts). But there has been much over the past couple of years in IRC.

This has to do with integrating RPG with the Drupal node system. The current RPG module is its own entity, entirely unattached to nodes. This is a reversal of earlier versions of the module. Originally, I'd planned to fully integrate it with CCK and Views, and if you look at the first few dozen commits, you'll see that RPG objects were actually node types, and the attributes were fields.

Eventually, I ran into several problems. Some issues were merely difficult, while others seemed nearly insurmountable. Thus, I rewrote the engine, making RPG objects an entirely separate entity in the database.

Now I'm writing graphical support for RPG, and am finding myself duplicating code, and questioning (yet again) my original decision to detach RPG from nodes. Here are some Pro's and Con's of using node types & fields for RPG objects:

This is as good a time as any. The RPG module is in official Alpha. You can make characters, walk around, and pick up & drop objects now. The rest is window dressing... ;) I've attached a screenshot here.

You can make a character at DrupalRPG.org. If you do, some caveats: [EDIT] set the 'PC' attribute to your user uid on the character creation page[/EDIT]; make sure to set a location to one of the two rooms currently available; when you walk around, the messages don't work entirely. If you take something, make sure you leave things on the floor for other people to take.

There's only a few rooms right now, and a few objects. Things will probably get cluttered very quickly as people make characters and objects, so I'll probably have to do some housecleaning soon.