@dev_ric Thanks! Yeah I wanted to have at least a working title for the first video so there's been a bit of emergency brainstorming the last couple weeks lol.
Still got lots of room for improvement and learning with the art but I think having a palette and keeping it simple goes a long way tbh!
@teahands definitely. But I don't just mean the art of this particular game - everything you were showing in that video, and the effects done for the video itself, the thumbnail, etc - it's all spot on.
Really 😍 the vid and project you work on @teahands.
The theme of solarpunk is inspiring too, and - just a thought - might be where you could inspire fellow fedizens to co-create in the game's ecosystem and benefit from diverse skills. It might even be a fedi game 😃
I took an interest in WebAssembly and noted that several indie engines are adding support. One is a full-blown Flash engine. Wasm allows polyglot sandboxed extensions.
Frankly, most likely the ActivityPub integration is best for in-game communication. And for other interaction different network protocol can be used. Think e.g. Peertube for instance, that uses WebTorrent for videos and AP for comments, likes, following, etc.
But in theory a game-oriented AP extension might be created. Here typically inspiring folks in the ecosystem may help.
While that is an artists project, wouldn't if be fun if something like that was a co-created space.
Guess that in the city builder game you'd need restrictions to ensure that everything stays visually consistent, etc. But seems wow.. seems fun exercise :D
Maybe in the ActivityPub support there might be functionality that allows city extensions to be reviewed. And might even be used to test-drive democratic city governance, though fedizen game participation.
@smallcircles@teahands I haven't heard of that one, but I have seen community build-em-up games appear a fee times, and they've never lasted to be honest. A really challenging genre to do right, it seems. Particularly because they tend to be abused by advertisers, who effectively set up some in-game space to advertise their real-world wares and then the players just get annoyed and move on.
There was a really interesting isometric one I've now forgotten the name of... trying to remember it...
Hmm, yes. I am not a gamedev, nor player (nowadays), so didn't think of that. I guess that in terms of Wasm that may require related WASI standards that is being developed. This allows 'contract-based development' and you can control the interfaces against which extensions can be built. But community vetting of extensions may come a long way.
@dev_ric@smallcircles There was a cute one in the last steam nextfest that I spent way too long on! Mostly targeted towards streamers and their communities though.
But yeah not to burst any bubbles here, but I'm not touching any form of multiplayer with a ten foot pole 😂
@smallcircles@teahands multiplayer isn't exactly practical unless you already have the servers, to be honest. Even if you're a brilliant coder, and know how to optimise for potentially large numbers of consecutive connecting players, just spinning up decent spec servers to run it all is expensive, and thus high risk for any new game. Particularly an indie dev game.
I was thinking more along lines of "snail communication" like we are having right now on this thread, rather than real-time action kinda stuff. Instead of exchanging as:Note msgs as Mastodon does, they might be game:BuildingPermit, game:LandGrab, or whatever fits the theme. Board-game like. But the idea is similar. Bring in a social aspect.
@RyunoKi@smallcircles@teahands nah... Fedicity (yeah, I've named it!), needs to be proper neighbourhood of cities where every account is connected via ActivityPub. Follow your neighbours build, by following them on the fediverse and clicking through to visit their section of the hexiverse. The game would push messages out to announce your achievements as you build more advanced buildings and such.
Yes, me too. Just having fun with some creative thinking as non gamedev (who would love to be gamedev, but made the wrong choices in life up till now 😆 )
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