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title: Fast Travel Simulator
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2020-06-03T12:53:47+08:00
one simple project I was thinking of making was a 'fast travel
simulator' -- you have to solve little puzzles or something in order to
fast travel between locations/planets, and the object of the game is to
move between the worlds with funny markov generated names
The name of the places would have scrabble scores in order to determine
how many points it costs in order to travel there, and a really fun
feature I think would be good in the game is that you are locked out of
control of the game when you are in the process of fast travelling.
Nothing would actually be loading, or perhaps control would be handed
over to SETI\@home or folding\@home, (probably not), but /that/ would be
the simulation of fast travelling hahahha
The project could be broken down into some component parts:
- Markov location name generator which determines the cost of the
travelling
- a small suite of little puzzles which would be nice and twitchy and
really casual
- some cool terminal graphics for the time you spend waiting to arrive
at the next location
- (optional) different sets of scripts depending on whether you wanted
to travel through space or maybe a fantasy world
- (optional) a map of the routes and nodes you have travelled and have
the potential to travel to
- (optional) the location nodes could have a message board, and the
game could run online, so you can say 'Blorp Jr. Has been here!'