Or: "I'm getting bored with killing things and want to hang out with my friends... What else is there to do?"
This page will be ever-expanding as other things come up for players to do with friends other than hunting down enemies. As has been seen in other role-playing games I've played, such as Final Fantasy VII (Gold Saucer) and Final Fantasy VIII (Triple Triad), most players enjoy a distraction from the main point of the game from time to time. For this reason it has been decided that an mini-games will be added. In some cases it will be as simple as a blackjack game in a casino, and in others it will require alot of coding, such as a pool game in a billiards hall. Below here is my personal brainstorms for some simple games, along with some that other people have given me the idea for.
Pool
Playing pool in a bar is the favorite passtime of many people. It will take some heavy coding to get it done, but it's not impossible, using ray trace, to program a simplistic pool game. I feel that it will be relatively easy to have a character equip a cue like he/she would a gun, then aim and fire it the same way. The rest would be all action-reaction mathematics.
Casino Games
Alot of casino games could be made popular. Simple card games such as black jack and five-card poker are easy to program. As was pointed out on the Lum the Mad website not long ago, a player that is sitting in a card game is easy to track. He's sitting, and not moving.
Wheel of Fortune and Roulette would be very easy to program. The numbers don't even have to be aparent on the device, but could still be announced via an MC, or a video display. This would also allow us to use a random generator for the outcome, thereby easing coding of the game.
Shooting Galleries would allow a player to test their marksmanship. Payoff would increase in proportion to number of targets hit. A default gun should be used in order to keep a player from getting rich by using a fully automatic high-speed machine gun.
Video Games
That's right, video games that are played inside a video game. 2D games emulating Pac Man, Asteroids, Defender, and a whole other slew of late-70's and early-80's arcade games are amazingly easy to code, and don't take up much room at all, could be a great addition to an adult-oriented game, such as what Dark Realm Inc would be. Alot of the older gamers out there got their start in the gaming world by begging mom and dad for a quarter or two so they could run down to the corner store and play Zaxxon. In a world such as Dark Realm, it is assumed that the technology used for entertainment has suffered alot of neglect while the large corporations gear computers more for defensive purposes rather than entertainment.
More to come.