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ASCII soup

This is a game idea, in raw brainstorm form. I've only edited it a little since
the initial typing into <lIRC<> as I thought.

graphics: ascii text terminal. possibly with colors

top down

one char for each player/piece

you can shove pieces around by bumping into them

if you can shove them around so there are 4 in a row of the same kind, then you
get a point, and you can do something to the whole board (like change all of a
certain type of piece, or fill all empty spaces with a piece)

different kind of pieces do different things when lined up

maybe we use: - / \ | + X << > V _

if you connect ---- they fuse, and you can push that around as one piece.

maybe you can construct shapes if you connect the ends of the chars properly

<p
  X
 / \
/   \

--+
  |
  +----
<>

choose a bunch of characters that reach the edges/corners of the character cell

the physics engine would know where each character reaches the edge, and would
fuse anything that connects properly

it could display anything fused in bold and/or yellow

maybe they would have a certain strength, and break if you tried to push too
much with them

possible goals:

1) get as many pieces on your side of the board

2) make the biggest structures

3) make a pile/structure that will stand the tallest when gravity comes along

4) build the longest straight line

5) make enclosed polygons

6) make structures that hold the most loose pieces from touching bottom when
gravity comes

or maybe there's always gravity and it slowly rains pieces, and you try to
build up your structure and catch pieces

7) make a structure that spans two opposite edges of the board

8) enclose an opponent in a structure, or in a section of no more than 30% of
the board

9) shove as many pieces off your side of the board  (make
scooping structures to help)

10) clear a big area

maybe we could make rules so that certain types of structures spit out pieces

this could be used for an offensive (shoot at each other) sort of thing, or as
a means for giving you building materials

or maybe certain structures would move on their own once completed:

could cruise left either destroying stuff, or shoving it up and down

<hImplementation<>

I'm thinking about implementing something like this in <lherkforth<>. I would
not implement networking (at least not until I get herkforth booting.) While
running under <lGNU/Linux<> you could do a multi-user screen session to do the
networking. -- <lJason Woofenden<>

<lJason's Computer Game Ideas<>

<hComments<>

Hi I happened to visit your site and I like this idea. Are you implementing it? BTW, why am I able to edit your page? :P

I started to implement it. but haven't touched the little bit of code I wrote
in many months. I think I got as far as filling the grid with random characters
from the set, and making it so you could move your ship around. I made it so
you just swap places with things you hit for now. I don't remember if how
reliably that code worked. I'm sure I'll get back to this and make a fun game
out of it at some point, but right now it's low on my list. -- <lJason
Woofenden<>

P.S. You can edit this page because... I like it that way :) People contribute,
people fix little things like my spelling, typos, broken links etc.. People
have contributed quite a bit of knowledge and links (about <lforth<> mostly.)
Plus I just like the feel of it. It's not just my ego/collection on display,
but a community of people sharing knowledge. There's another good answer to
this question in the <lwiki FAQ<>. -- <lJason Woofenden<>

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