Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
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Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
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Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#2This is a great list, I've tried to order them into what I think would be easiest to hardest, so you can work through all of them whilst improving your skills!
If you think the list could be ordered better let me know and I'll edit it!
1:Pong
2:Minefield
3:Tic-tac-toe
4:Memory Puzzle
5:Simon
6:Sliding Puzzle
7:Duck Hunt
8:Yahtzee
9:Maze
10:Typespeed
11:Lunar Lander
12:Nibbles
13:Katamari Damacy
14:Tron
15:Asteroids
16:Arkanoid
17:Flood It
18:Quoridor
19:Space Invaders
20:Scrabble
21:Othello
22:Quarto
23:Fruit Ninja
24:Tetris
25:Minotaurus
26:Connect Four
27:Missile Command
28:Abalone
29:Sokoban
30:Dr. Mario
31:Kirby’s Avalanche / Puyo Puyo
32:Checkers / Draughts
33:Pipe Dream
34:Blackjack
35:Grid Lock / Traffic Jam
36:Last Stand
37:Bloxorz
38:Bejeweled
39:Zoop
40:Rampart
41:Mancala
42:Snood / Bust-a-Move
43:Scorched Earth / Worms / Gorillas / Angry Birds
44:Stratego
45:Risk
46:Go
47:Diner Dash
48:Fire ‘N’ Ice
49:Chess
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#3Great list :) I've been working on #43 (Dr. Mario) off and on for a little while - it's my favorite old NES puzzler, better than Tetris IMHO. My (very WIP) version is at http://mrdar.io - the single player version is working OK (except for buggy mobile controls), now I'm working on implementing multiplayer over websockets... It's a lot more challenging than expected, but I'm learning a ton.
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#4jackson_1, if you read this, your posts are being marked as [dead].
jackson_1 posted a list of what they feel is order of difficultly, just giving a little snippet:
1:Pong 2:Minefield 3:Tic-tac-toe 4:Memory Puzzle ... 44:Stratego 45:Risk 46:Go 47:Diner Dash 48:Fire ‘N’ Ice 49:Chess
I'd strongly disagree with this -- I'd prefer to do a Chess clone than a Pong clone myself. While doing a good chess A.I. might be hard, doing something reasonable is much easier than many other games on this list. Doing a good enough chess A.I. to beat 50% of people is fairly easy if you use the power of a modern machine.
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#5They missed the most obvious one!
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-brainstorming-session...
Edit: I thought they missed Breakout, but it’s in there, but they’re calling it “Arkanoid”. Bah.
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#6Sure, you could clone, or you could bring the ideas on Game Toilet [https://gametoilet.wordpress.com/] to life instead.
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#7jackson_1, if you read this, your posts are being marked as [dead]. jackson_1 posted a list of what they feel is order of difficultly, just giving a little snippet: 1:Pong 2:Minefield 3:Tic-tac-toe 4:Memory Puzzle ... 44:Stratego 45:Risk 46:Go 47:Diner Dash 48:Fire ‘N’ Ice 49:Chess I'd strongly disagree with this -- I'd prefer to do a Chess clone than a Pong clone myself. While doing a good chess A.I. might be hard,…
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Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#8There is also http://www.squidi.net/three/index.php:
"This is my attempt to document three hundred different gameplay concepts of my own creation.
These ideas are free for anyone to use."
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#9Great list :) I've been working on #43 (Dr. Mario) off and on for a little while - it's my favorite old NES puzzler, better than Tetris IMHO. My (very WIP) version is at http://mrdar.io - the single player version is working OK (except for buggy mobile controls), now I'm working on implementing multiplayer over websockets... It's a lot more challenging than expected, but I'm learning a ton.
That's nice. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Ideas for Game Clones to Code (2012)
#10I've always wondered, is there a wiki for ideas? Something like a Github-equivalent for open-source drafts of video games, including standalone characters, combat systems and anything else someone thinks might be cool in a game.
Somebody make that, please?