2048 As A Service

Post by jackpirate » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 2:31 AM UTC

jordanlev wrote: post #37

I get that this is a joke, but I do think a really cool concept for a game would be one where there is just an API for the "state" and that is responsible for the mechanics and rules of the game, but that you would build your own custom client for the UI. For example, some kind of spaceship battle game where you create your own interface for controlling the ship... it would be kind of a meta-game where creating the i…

Post by claudius » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 7:50 AM UTC

saraid216 wrote: post #43

jordanlev wrote: post #37

I get that this is a joke, but I do think a really cool concept for a game would be one where there is just an API for the "state" and that is responsible for the mechanics and rules of the game, but that you would build your own custom client for the UI. For example, some kind of spaceship battle game where you create your own interface for controlling the ship... it would be kind of a meta-game where creating the i…

Back when I was working on my own MUD, this was one of my intents. I'd set up the system and then define an API off it for anyone to build their own client. This was mostly because I was pretty strongly principled against forcing a particular display on the player. I wanted them to be able to explore via a text-based interface or a graphical one. ...and as it turns out, this was not the most ridiculously ambitious pa…