Basically I want to make a game bot that promotes interaction between instances; so, each instance is a tribe, and you have to go off and play against people on other instances.

But I haven’t really figured out what the actual game should be. I’m loosely basing it on the idea of Tribal Wars, but I don’t think that would work very well since it’s intensely precise - most worlds have a forced attack launch delay of 100ms, and this is for a reason. I think something more turn-based is fine. But does it even need to be a territory-control game in the first place? Card games maybe not great since having a hidden hand is annoying.

  • narF 🎲
    4•2 years ago

    @meloo What about cooperative gameplay? Instead of instances fighting against each other, then could collaborate to attain a common shared goal?

          • liwott
            2•2 years ago

            @narF @meloo Just like you would subscribe to a mastodon account from another instance : you type @fediversefutures@lemmy.ml in Mastodon’s search bar to see the community’s profile (unfortunately Mastodon doesn’t support the ! for groups, so cannot deal with a user and a community having the same name. Friendica does)

            • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
              2•2 years ago

              Huh wow! This could also be used to follow lemmy users, maybe! There is no way to currently follow lemmy users from lemmy.

              • liwott
                1•2 years ago

                @meloo you can formally follow a Lemmy user from Mastodon or Friendica, but I’m not sure whether updates really go in your timeline as I don’t follow any active lemmy user

          • narF 🎲
            1•2 years ago

            @meloo I didn’t. The boosted post appeared in my timeline and I just replied to it from my mastodon account. I didn’t create a new account.

            Is that a problem? Did I do something wrong?

            • @meloo@lemmy.perthchat.orgOP
              2•2 years ago

              That’s cool! Sounds like lemmy posts automatically get posted on the mastodon timeline.

              Is that a problem?

              Not at all