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Harry Buntz (Tabu)
| | Posted on Sunday, August 20, 2000 - 5:54 pm: | |
Most games fall into two broad categories: board games and card games. The great thing about Zillions is that it uses the fundamentals common to board games (e.g. board, pieces, moves, etc) as the programming language. This allows for a incredible amount of flexibility and the potential to create and play nearly any type of board game.
I think it would be great if the same basic design was created for card games. I don't think an expansion to the current system would work, because we're talking about a completely different set of mechanics. Rather it would have to be seperate program, but done with same approach and same underlying programming structure. |
pete smith (Peet)
| | Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2000 - 8:47 am: | |
Even more so, I would like to see combinations available, so that a board game may also include cards.
Some system where you define a deck and give it a name (that way you could have several, different decks, like Chance and Community Chest), and define places for the cards to be (in the deck, in a hand, in a discard pile) would be ideal.
Figuring out the images to appear on the cards might be tricky, though they could be mostly text; perhaps a simplified form of HTML could be used to describe the text to appear on cards. It would be important to allow background colours for such cards, to make them more easily identifiable.
Peet |
Adam Villatorio (Merlin)
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2005 - 12:03 am: | |
Why should we simplify it? We could just use a mozilla/firefox based mini-browser to render the code, couldn't we? Or just call up IE?
Merlin |
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