Mini Games in each town...

[Darkshine]

man I am just full of ideas right now....

Okay... mini games in each town. A different one in each town.

All are gold based gambling games, they take gold to play, and you can win amazing amounts of gold. Maybe make the gambling room in the upstairs of the inn... or maybe make a tavern for the towns.

But the maximum amounts you can bet are limited by which town you are in. say like Castille has a 100 gold max limit... Stronhad 250.. Fenilia 500.. Atlimus 1000... and keeps doubling from there.

now here is the other kicker, and a little bit of research would have to be done into this, but have the mini games be familiar old school console mini games, or use other relevant context mini games. Obviously don't make them exactly the same due to copyright infringement, but the principle of the game the same.

Like the bouncing skull mini game from Iron Sword on the NES.

And/Or the Pirates of the Caribbean Dice game... (I love this game, it's stupidly addicting)

Maybe a Deck of Many things knockoff from D&D? (my personal weakness)

A variation of the LOTR mini game of drunken axe toss?

Mini -Games like these are idiotically addicting, and fun to do.

I know it takes a TON of coding to make one of these games.

obviously I would expect subsequent posts with game ideas.

here are a few more of my more original suggestions for mini games...


Archery shoot. The more gold you bet, the further away the target is. consider wind speed and draw strength and angle.

Stick Monkey (what? what were you thinking?)... Bet your gold, and prepare to defend yourself. The more gold you bet the faster the blows come from more directions. Directional shifting avatar with bo staff on the center of the screen and you must parry incoming blows by moving your mouse in front of them and click to defend the blow before you get thwacked. Get hit too many times and it's game over.

Daggerhand.... A game of sheer punishment, because if you aren't fast enough you lose, and if you're too fast, you'll have some nice air vents in your hand. Click the mouse on the left side of the thumb, then the right, then the left side of the thumb, then the right side of your index finger... and so on and so forth, and come back the same way. Higher bets mean less time to do accomplish one full trip across the hand and back. Any wrong mouse click on a finger, and it's game over.

Pickpocket... How slick do you think you are? Higher bets in this game require more complex pickpocketing. It starts out with lifting a single gold piece from a passed out drunk, to stealing a purse of gold from an alert battle hardened warrior. A steady hand and slow movements are needed for this game. Move the cursor down slowly to get on the object in question, and then click and hold on it, and try to pull it out carefully and silently.

That's all I have for right now, but maybe some more in the future.

Or one can always go with classics, such as poker blackjack and the like.

IMO MMOs should always be more than a single game.

This sounds great. Especially drunken sharp object hurling, or stabbing of any sort. Desperate world? Desperate minigames!

[Darkshine]

Lol nice Kryo. Well Picho, I specifically did not mention those games, simply because you don't want to fall into the trap of being like all the other MMO's that have something like that. That has been done before, and it gets kind of lame after a while. If I want to go play casino classic games, I can pull a thousand sites up on the internet to play the classics, and after so many card hands and games, it becomes more like going through the motions, than trying to win.

I agree, that MMO's should be more than one game always, but this is the first in-depth flash MMORpg of it's kind. Nodiatis is a VERY dark world, and I was aiming for mini games that more suit the realm and theme than anything else.

It might not be a bad idea though to maybe have a location created on the map that is a Pleasure Dome, basically a medieval casino, with all those classic card and board games, prizes, and much more. Who knows? But ya, definitely needs a mini game or 7, I think we are all clear on that point.

Above all else, I agree with Kryo, drunken slashing, shooting, throwing is always a good time. Too bad kclown cannon isn't within the theme... unless you shot a dwarf out of the cannon... that might work.

Daggerhand is easily exploitable with hotkeys/macros.

Originally Posted by Darkshine

Lol nice Kryo. Well Picho, I specifically did not mention those games, simply because you don't want to fall into the trap of being like all the other MMO's that have something like that. That has been done before, and it gets kind of lame after a while. If I want to go play casino classic games, I can pull a thousand sites up on the internet to play the classics, and after so many card hands and games, it becomes more like going through the motions, than trying to win.

It might not be a bad idea though to maybe have a location created on the map that is a Pleasure Dome, basically a medieval casino, with all those classic card and board games, prizes, and much more. Who knows? But ya, definitely needs a mini game or 7, I think we are all clear on that point.

Yeah but you can't win gold for nodiatis at those sites, and I would like to see something like Hold'em, you know **** that everyone can play.

Not limiting the mini games to just hold'em though, but have card games in the tavern/inn, and have a link in the church section that would like go around to the back or something and have knife tosses or w/e there.

Daggerhand could be fixed by simply adding in a variable, like random "Hold button" sequences, or something like "Drunk guy jarred the table! Press <whatever> to compensate"

Originally Posted by kryonastus

Daggerhand could be fixed by simply adding in a variable, like random "Hold button" sequences, or something like "Drunk guy jarred the table! Press <whatever> to compensate"

yeah then you could fight the drunk guy and take his loot lol

Originally Posted by Turd_Sandwich

Yeah but you can't win gold for nodiatis at those sites, and I would like to see something like Hold'em, you know **** that everyone can play.
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This is the single best argument against the whole "Well if i want to do this, i'd just go here instead of there" bull crap.


Also tell me one MMO that has a casino where you can win in game money. As far as i know, there ain't one. At least not one that is main stream at all.


Now while Nordiats isn't main stream by any means right now, it could do well with some basic card gambling games. I mean how many times have you seen movies out there where there is a bunch of guys around a table playing some card or dice game? Plenty actually, which makes it even better for us.


They are also games that people know. Not like Blatchmeter, the game of a thousand choices, or Mein Furier the game of global domination..