Technomaniac:
Hey Julie
AngelicOne:
Hi!
Technomaniac:
So I'm sure you'll be gald to know we finish BoM
AngelicOne:
WHAT?
Technomaniac:
We finsihed BoM
AngelicOne:
But... you've only been at it a month...
Technomaniac:
Hey, there are two technologically powered people working on it
AngelicOne:
Hmph
AngelicOne:
When I think about how I spent over a year programming Joolesgaim...
Technomaniac:
Haha
AngelicOne:
Green eyed monster mean anything to you?
Technomaniac:
Haha
Technomaniac:
Well, if it makes you feel better neither Binar nor I can design game very well
Technomaniac:
Okay, Binar can't design at all
Technomaniac:
I've tried my hand at it, but I never get very far
Technomaniac:
Rather play and program I guess
AngelicOne:
Fair enough
AngelicOne:
Well, maybe it's better that way
AngelicOne:
I like programming, but I love designing more
Technomaniac:
Hehe
Technomaniac:
A well made partnership
Technomaniac:
Just a shame that we don't live in the same area, because Rin loves kids
Technomaniac:
She'd love to meet yours
AngelicOne:
Haha, well, I'd take all the help I can get
AngelicOne:
I think it's a miracle I've been able to have time to program with six kids to raise
AngelicOne:
They're very time consuming
AngelicOne:
Especially now that B'E and Tom are walking
Technomaniac:
Haha
AngelicOne:
In fact, at this very moment, I am talking to you, finalising the next update for Joolesgaim and feeding Josh
Technomaniac:
Whoa, go the multitasking
AngelicOne:
Yes, so if there are any typos, it's because I'm typing one handed
Technomaniac:
hahaha
Technomaniac:
Well, you've done pretty well so far
AngelicOne:
tx
Technomaniac:
So, any more games for us to put together
AngelicOne:
Ahhh so THAT's the real reason for you IMing me...
Technomaniac:
Well, that and to gloat :-D
AngelicOne:
Haha
AngelicOne:
Well, as it happens, I have two sitting and waiting for programming
Technomaniac:
Great!
AngelicOne:
I'll just email them to you.
Technomaniac:
Okay
Technomaniac:
So what are they about?
Technomaniac:
...
Technomaniac:
Julie?
AngelicOne:
Sorry
AngelicOne:
Told you I was busy multitasking over here
Technomaniac:
Oh yeah...
AngelicOne:
designs are on their way
Technomaniac:
Great
Technomaniac:
And they're about?
AngelicOne:
One is a class stategy/war game
AngelicOne:
You have your units, they have theirs, they meet in battle
Technomaniac:
Ok
AngelicOne:
Twist is, instead of buying units, you have to breed them
Technomaniac:
Oooh
AngelicOne:
You can crossbreed and get different traits
AngelicOne:
Of course, sometimes the breeding doesn't go according to plan, and theyhave defects
AngelicOne:
And your enemy may sabotage your efforts
AngelicOne:
And of course, breeding takes time...
Technomaniac:
Coooooooooooooolllll
Technomaniac:
Plus this would be really open to updating because you would add new stock
Technomaniac:
Awesome!
AngelicOne:
Yup
AngelicOne:
The hard part is working out what you might get if you bred A with B
AngelicOne:
And even worse... if you bred a A&B hybrid with a C&D hybrid
AngelicOne:
But then I've made things easier on myself and made some combinations impossible
Technomaniac:
Good idea
AngelicOne:
Plus I've had to give serious consideration to the problem of generations
Technomaniac:
What do you mean?
AngelicOne:
Well, if Gen 1 is the original breeding stock, and in addition to breeding pure lines, hybrid are also bred
AngelicOne:
So, Gen 2 is a AB hybrid
AngelicOne:
And you breed the AB with a BC
AngelicOne:
so Gen 3 is 1/2 B, 1/4 A and 1/4 C
AngelicOne:
And you breed that with another AB
AngelicOne:
So you get a 1/8 C 3/8 A 4/8 B
Technomaniac:
Ahhhhh
Technomaniac:
Very messy
AngelicOne:
Yep
Technomaniac:
Eventually you could end up with a 3/32 C, 9/32 A and 20/32 B or something
AngelicOne:
Exactly
AngelicOne:
I'm sure that such a hybrid would be interesting, but if I came up with combinations for all of them..
Technomaniac:
You'd never finish
AngelicOne:
Nope
Technomaniac:
So, what have you done?
AngelicOne:
I've only taken the combinations down to 8ths - if a hyrbid has an '8th' in it, you can't breed them unless between them and their partner they won't produce a 16th
Technomaniac:
Huh?
AngelicOne:
Okay, take our example above, with the 1/8C
Technomaniac:
Okay
AngelicOne:
YOu can only breed that hybrid to another hyrbid who has 1/8C or more
AngelicOne:
Like, if you had two CAAABBBB's you could breed them together
AngelicOne:
Because the offspring would all be CAAABBBBs
Technomaniac:
Ahhhhh I see
Technomaniac:
Hmm, sounds like that would be an interesting bit of programming
AngelicOne:
And just to make things interesting...
Technomaniac:
Yeah?
AngelicOne:
Sometimes you can have an uprising of your warriors, resenting being bred for war
Technomaniac:
Hahahahahahaha
AngelicOne:
And a few other stupid but fun things like that
Technomaniac:
Cool
Technomaniac:
And the name?
AngelicOne:
Well, I was going to call it 'brood wars' except there's already a game called that
Technomaniac:
Yeah! I haven't played that in ages...
AngelicOne:
Progeny
Technomaniac:
Cool
Technomaniac:
And the other one?
AngelicOne:
I call it "Home Sweet Home"
Technomaniac:
haha
AngelicOne:
You play an ordinary, every day man or woman, in a small village
AngelicOne:
the village is precariously situated, and regularly invaded by monsters
AngelicOne:
and there are always heros showing up and fighting them off
Technomaniac:
heh
AngelicOne:
The goal is to make a life for yourself
AngelicOne:
Or rather, make it to a ripe old age
Technomaniac:
hahaha
AngelicOne:
You can get a job and/or run a business
AngelicOne:
and get married and raise a family
AngelicOne:
Your house and/or place of business can be destroyed
AngelicOne:
YOu can help your neighbours rebuild
AngelicOne:
STuff like that
AngelicOne:
The idea came to me after playing the hero so often in these poor little villages who did no one any harm except to be built in the wrong spot, heh
Technomaniac:
Haha
Technomaniac:
Yeah... this sounds interesting
Technomaniac:
Can you ever fight the monsters yourself?
AngelicOne:
You can try... but unless you're physcally active all the time, you'll probably die
Technomaniac:
Great
Technomaniac:
What about the kids?
Technomaniac:
Computer generated or player?
AngelicOne:
I couldn't decide, myself
AngelicOne:
So in the end, I decided that they're computer generated until their 'coming of age'
AngelicOne:
at which time the player gets to decide whether they remain computer generated or to play them themselves
Technomaniac:
cool
AngelicOne:
Mwahaha, computer generated are free game
AngelicOne:
Anyway, your villagers get community points for doing things like helping rebuild other people's house and community buildings and giving food and money to the needy and stuff
AngelicOne:
And you can get profiteering points, for doing things like looting houses nad bodies and begging when you don't need to
Technomaniac:
hahahahaha
AngelicOne:
And these points effect what kind of standing you have in the village and what retirement you have
AngelicOne:
(for people who don't want their villager to die of old age when he/she is old a decrpit)
Technomaniac:
Haha
Technomaniac:
Well, it sounds interesting
AngelicOne:
stuff like that
AngelicOne:
thanks
Technomaniac:
In a year or so we're going to have to produce Joolesgaim 2
AngelicOne:
haha
Technomaniac:
seriously
Technomaniac:
keep your original one free as the taster, and make everyone susbscribe to play the sequel
AngelicOne:
You're just itching to make it aren't you?
Technomaniac:
Yep
Technomaniac:
But it's too early for it at the moment
AngelicOne:
Agreed.