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Gaming and Grazing / Crazy Idea: The TSClympics.
« on: September 26, 2008, 06:07:25 pm »
ORIGINAL POST IS BELOW.

Preliminary Game Rules:
[All rules are, at this point in time, currently entirely subject to debate as to create the best and most enjoyable competition. All rules below are not official and exist solely to be discussed until finalized.

===Advance Wars by Web===
All games will be played at Advance Wars by Web.
(Specific COs to ban?)
(Specific stages to use?)

===Advance Wars: Days of Ruin===
(Never played this, someone else fill it in.)

===Button Men===
All games will be played at Button Men.
Each match will consist of 6 seperate games.
3 games will be played using the following rules: Play until 3 wins, Random TL Button Man VS Random TL Button Man.
3 games will be played as Reverse Matches of the 3 prior games, with each player using the Button Men their opponent used.
[As a side note, I highly encourage anyone to check out this game--it's pretty simple and a lot of fun.]

===Diddy Kong Racing DS===
If there are more than 8 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 8 players.
Each group will compete in a series of (#?) races.
(Maybe I'm just not in the right frame of mind but I can't think of how points should be distributed on this one. I also need to test Wi-Fi because I'm not even positive 8-player Wi-Fi is there. I've read online it is though...)

===Dr. Mario Online RX===
Round Robin Tournament. Players will be ranked on wins.
[Any preference on difficulty level? If not I'll look into it...]

===Elebits (Stage Design Contest)===
Each competitor may submit only one stage.
"Judges" are those not competing in the event but who have chosen to judge the event.
All players and judges will recieve and play the stages made by each other player, and then rank the stages in order from favorite to least favorite. A player will not include their own stage in their ranking.
<Points will be awarded in some fashion in this way...>

===Grand Theft Auto 4===
(Race Mode? No clue, someone else fill this in.)

===Guilty Gear XX===
(Someone else fill it in.)

===Immaterial and Missing Power===
(Someone else fill it in.)

===Kirby Air Ride===
All matches will be played on a Nintendo Game with a Broadband Adapter using Warp Pipe. (Need link to software.)
(Need more information on what modes play in Broadband mode.)

===LandGrab===
If there are more than 7 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 7 players.
(Should a specific set of maps be chosen for each round? How many rounds should be played? How should elimination work?)

===Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass===
Round Robin tournament. Players will be ranked on wins.
Stages will be chosen via in-game method.
[How many matches should be played between each set of players?]

===Magic the Gathering===
Matches may be played on Magic Workstation or LackeyCCG.
(Someone else fill this in.)

===Super Mario Bros.===
<Game Race rules go here.>

===Super Mario Bros. 3===
<Game Race rules go here.>

===Mario Kart DS===
If there are more than 4 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 4 players.
Courses will be chosen via in-game method.
(How should elimination work?)

===Mario Kart Wii===
If there are more than 8 players, all players will be grouped into randomly chosen, approximately equal groups of no more than 8 players.
Courses will be chosen via in-game method.
(Should we use in-game ranking for this one? Does it keep track of in-game ranking during friend matches?)

===Mario Kart: Double Dash!!===
All matches will be played on a Nintendo Game with a Broadband Adapter using Warp Pipe. (Need link to software.)
(Need more information on what modes play in Broadband mode.)

===Mario Strikers Charged===
(Someone else fill me in on this one...)

===Mega Man game?===
<Anyone have a preference on a specific Mega Man game or games to use for a Game Race?>

===Metroid Prime: Hunters===
(Someon else fill in this one...)

===Monster Rancher===
(Someon else fill in this one...)

===Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II===
(Someon else fill in this one...)

===Picross DS===
(I'll look into this one at some point...)

===Picross DS (Puzzle Design Contest)===
Each competitor may submit only one puzzle.
"Judges" are those not competing in the event but who have chosen to judge the event.
All players and judges will recieve and play the puzzles made by each other player, and then rank the stages in order from favorite to least favorite. A player will not include their own stage in their ranking.
<Points will be awarded in some fashion in this way...>

===Pokémon Diamond & Pearl===
Matches will be played on a DS system over Wi-Fi or through Pokémon Battle Revolution.
Matches will follow standard OU rules.
[3-on-3 or 6-on-6?]

===Pokémon TCG===
Matches may be played using LackeyCCG or RedShark.
Round Robin tournament.

===Sonic the Hedgehog 2===
(Gens has Netplay, right? Any other Genesis emulators, as well?)
(Play a set of all 4 levels, using in-game scoring to decide winner?)

===Sonic game?===
<Any particular Sonic game that would be usable for a Game Race?>

===Super Smash Bros.===
Play using Netplay in Project64k.
<Anyone?>

===Super Smash Bros. Brawl===
<1-on-1 or 4-player matches?>

===Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Stage Design Contest)===
Each competitor may submit only one stage.
"Judges" are those not competing in the event but who have chosen to judge the event.
All players and judges will recieve and play the stages made by each other player, and then rank the stages in order from favorite to least favorite. A player will not include their own stage in their ranking.
<Points will be awarded in some fashion in this way...>

===Team Fortress 2===
(No clue.)

===Tetris DS===
(2-player or 4-player mode?)

===WarTech: Senko No Ronde===
(No clue.)

WOW. When I originally thought up making this post, I didn't realize I'd have so many glaring blank spots. So if anyone has any preferences on any of these, PLEASE make them known now. In addition, if you want to add any games [which I highly encourage you do], then please post a preliminary explanation of the rules.

Sorry for this otherwise being a waste, but it's a start I guess.

-------------ORIGINAL POST-------------
I came up with this idea and talked to RPG about it a little, and it's... probably too grandiose and would become unwieldy to manage, but I'd like to give it a shot anyway of people would be interested.

Essentially... a massive competition of games of all sorts.

Ranging from Mario Kart to Magic the Gathering to Chess to LandGrab to any game anyone can feasible play online [and some that feasibly can't].

I envision it working like this: People will suggest games to include. Once a list of games has been made up, people can express interest in what games they'd want to compete in. There will be no limit to how many games a person can compete in, and each person does not need to compete in all the games, or even a large portion of them. In order for a game's competition to occur, there will be a minimum number of required competitors.

I'd like to include a variety of games, from Wii/DS/360 games that can be played online, to CCGs over Lackey and MWS, to board and card games that can be played on any number of sites, to web-based games like LandGrab and possibly others.

Another idea I kicked around that I don't know if anyone would be interested in, would be "Game Races" like the ones featured here under "Race Videos"--People would likely need a capture card or a way to record video from an emulator, and there'd need to be rules for it... also, having a mic to communicate is a plus--on those ones, the idea wouldn't just be to speed run, but to also talk to your opponents while you play and things... I know it sounds weird, but I think it'd be a fun idea.

We'd also need to decide what the best and most fair ways to run the events would be. Round Robin is extremely fair but takes a long time. Single Elimination is quick but, ultimately, doesn't give good 1st-2nd-3rd results. Any thoughts?

Anyone interested at all?

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LackeyCCG is yet another in a long string of programs that allow people to play CCGs on the interwebz. It has it's goods [use of full size card art, pretty robust features, and still in active development] and the bad [it can run a little slow--the text entry is laggy by a second or so, and the using full size card art means it takes up a bit of space], but overall I like it better than anything else I've tried.

And since I've dragged RPG into playing with me, I might as try and drag anyone else in.

At the moment I mostly only play Pokémon TCG [since I made the plugin for it], and I'm also interested in learning, in order, UFS, The Unauthorized Dr. Who CCG (which I also made the plugin for), and VS System.

There are also other games for it, and I know a bunch of you play Magic although chances are you aren't likely to switch over to Lackey.

But yeah, if anyone wants to play any of these games with me, or find other people to play any other games available for it here, then post here.

Installing plugins on it can be a little odd, but there's a good explanation here once you've downloaded the program. And you can go on the forums to find more plugins.

On an unrelated note, If I ever get around to continuing that CCG idea I had a while back, it'd probably be tested on LackeyCCG.

So, anyone up for a game?

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Gaming and Grazing / LandGrab: Online Risk
« on: August 24, 2008, 02:44:30 pm »
I've been finding players for LandGrab in the channel, and I figured I might as well just post here.

The game is pretty standard Risk, with a good selection of rules to use. We've already done 1 game with another game in progress, and I want to start a third.

Since I'm too lazy to into any detail, look into it yourself.

Game 1 [Go to History Playback if you want to see it play out]
Game 2

So if anyone wants to be in Game 3, post here. Also, feel free to suggest maps to use. All the maps are here, including the shitty ones, so feel free to play around with the filters.

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Gaming and Grazing / I think I want to make a video game-based CCG...
« on: January 01, 2008, 06:48:06 pm »
I'm sure there are a lot of you who don't know who the hell I am. Well. I lurk in #soniccenter a lot, and that's about it.

But I came up with this whole idea for a card game, and I guess I'm really looking for people who would be interested in helping form it. It's basically just a glint in my eye, but if there's anyone out there who wants to beta test or help design it or anything, I'm looking for all the help I can get.

I talked to RPG on MSN, and later IRC, and got some basic form of it down. Since rephrasing it all would be a lot of work, feel free to muck around this and discover my idea for a little game.

[MSN, reformatted to IRC style to make it readable:]
<The_T> I have this idea in my head for a card game that. I want to make. Like, even just as an app for LackeyCCG or something. Do you know of anyone who would be interested in helping me develop it and won't give me shit about my ideas being stupid?
<RPG> well off hand I dont know anyone but ill gladly listen to anything atm
<The_T> Hmm. I don't know where to begin.
<The_T> I've had this idea for like, forever. But.
<The_T> The idea would be that it would revolve around video games, in a kind of multi-versal way.
Have you ever played the Star Wars CCG, by chance?
<RPG> Alas not
<The_T> Okay, well.
<The_T> The idea could be that both players play out "Levels", which would be... essentially, stages from video games. Or they could, tracks from racing games, or multiplayer arenas from FPS, or minigames from Mario Party. Things like that.
<The_T> And they would also play characters who have... this part I'm still undecided on the best way to handle it, but some kind of stat systems that makes certain characters more able to complete certain types of Levels.
<The_T> And there would be some light randomization as well as stat-enhancement cards such that any Character would be able to overcome any challenge eventually.
<RPG> Yeah I see what you mean
[snip]
<The_T> Another idea about Levels would be
<The_T> that each card has a Difficulty level, so at the start of the game, you can only play cards with low difficulties. Like, the first card must have a difficulty of one or two. And then each card after that must have +/- 3 or so difficulty. So you could play a card of difficulty 2, then 4, then 5, then 3, then 6, etc.
That number isn't set in stone, but.
<The_T> Basically it would make a sort of game board out of cards.
<The_T> And of course, some things like Fighting game stages would work way differently, with focus on character VS character interaction.
[snip, switch to IRC because MSN is gaying out:]
[18:09] <The_T> so um, yeah. And I guess the idea would be, that the way you complete certain stages or things will affect your Score, which would be like the opposite of Life in... I'm going to say Yu-Gi-Oh 'cause I don't know a lot about card games. I think Magic has something like that too but if I'm wrong then I'm wrong.
[18:10] <Fixed> Magic has life, yeah
[18:10] <The_T> Like. The objective would be to get a certain end score or have a higher score when the game ends. But the rest of the details need to be worked out.
[18:10] <Fixed> Right
[18:10] <The_T> And so both players would play levels on the same "Level line" or "board" or what have you.
[18:10] <The_T> I guess what really needs to be figured out is how to handle characters.
[18:11] <Fixed> Yeah
[18:11] <The_T> I think there could also be things like weapons, and icons on characters to represent the types of weapons they can use. So Link can have a little sword icon and then he can use swords from basically any game, but certain swords could be like "Only usable by Link".
[18:11] <The_T> like the Master Sword, maybe.
[18:11] <The_T> Ooh, and sidequests.
[18:11] <Fixed> Yarr
[18:11] <The_T> Things that could add a little bit to your score but also give you a benefit.
[18:12] <The_T> Like let you use the Biggoron Sword, concepts like that.
[18:12] <The_T> But yes. Any /clue/ on how to do Characters, then. 'cause I've got nothing.
[18:13] <Fixed> erm
[18:13] <Fixed> give them like
[18:13] <Fixed> HP
[18:13] <The_T> Hmm. That's iffy.
[18:13] <Fixed> maybe attack and defence stats
[18:13] <The_T> 'cause, I want characters to play exactly like they do.
[18:13] <Fixed> and you roll x dice
[18:13] <Fixed> for hits and shit
[18:13] <Fixed> iono
[18:13] <The_T> So platform characters should die easily, have power-ups to extend their life, and go back to the same stage they were already on [or maybe a stage back?] when they die.
[18:14] <The_T> While RPG characters will have HP and have to go back farther [to the last place with a Save Point card] when they die.
[18:15] <The_T> But then I'm worried about bogging it down with too many stats.
[18:16] <Fixed> True
[18:16] <The_T> So what I should probably do is make a list of genre-defining characters
[18:17] <The_T> note all their important stats
[18:17] <The_T> and make a "best of" type list.
[18:17] <Fixed> Indeed

So I'm basically looking for any kind of advice at all on this, and if anyone wants to help, well. If your ideas clash with my mind, I probably won't use your help. But, if they work out, then all the better. So. Any thoughts?

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Beef / 5 little problems.
« on: April 15, 2004, 07:29:12 pm »
I know how incredibly annoying this must be, but I figure I'll list some little problems on the site that could be fixed or whatever. No rush.

Sonic Battle:

- When you click "Sonic Battle" on a Player Statistics screen, it displays a blank table [as there is no Time category].

Sonic Adventure [DX]:

- This has been stated before, but the "Times" category is all messed up in the Site Records view.

Sonic Pocket Adventure:

- There's no "Neo Geo Pocket" listed at the top of the site, so we can't get to the Players and New Lists.

- The "Overall" is left blank.

Other:

- The New Stats button never seems to finish loading before getting to a "Action canceled" page.

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Beef / Problem on Rankings Page...
« on: April 15, 2004, 03:59:11 pm »
On my rankings page, um... Sonic Adventure DX is listed three times... @_@

EDIT: Seems to be fixed, although there are other problems abound [as below].

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