hereland_farland

An asymmetric multiplayer game

Purpose

LibGDX Game Jam http://itch.io/jam/libgdxjam

Theme: Life in Space

Goals

I'll probably replace this with the elevator pitch of the game at some point. For now, the only goal is a very 'zoomed in' interaction mode with the game (single character, personal avatar) and a very 'zoomed out' interaction mode with the game (environmental, systemic) are available on the same persistent world.

Vested Interest

Two popular pieces of advice are very good

• don't make a game engine, make a game
• don't make an mmo, make a small multiplayer game

I think this is great advice, so I am going to take it (by not taking it).

For Boston Elixir, I purposed the idea that much like the real-time chat app is usurping the todo list as the goto "web framework hello world", applying the same advantages to game design can let making a multiplayer server augment the pong galaga, and jumper hello worlds of game engines.

So, in order to make progress towards that, and to maybe have something nice to demo at the next Boston Elixir, lets make a small game that holds these ideas as principles, and then abstract out the good bits into the start of a eDSL/framework. (Namely Yyzzy that is sitting in another repo)

Todo

• make basic entity libGDX application
  • get some stuff moving on the screen
• sketch out high level specification of game / design decisions
  • text input [y/n]
  • physics entities [y/n]
  • client side vs server side computation / responsibilities
• write front end code for a few features from spec (java libGDX)
• write back end code for a few features from spec (elixir modules)
• write some scripting shortcuts for these features (exs / EEx)