Do you use Python? To game code?

amarillion, it might be a good idea to post this in a the depot forums or something. For non-logged in users, they won't see this thread.

Yea discord would be cool. If there were some way to integrate the two (some kind of dischord/irc integration or bot) that would be ideal. I might have both open.

I honestly don't know much about Dischord. I installed it once when I was looki g for insider info on scheduling a vaccine, and I found it very noisy and tbh I couldn't figure out what the appeal was. I used slack at work, I liked that.

@amarillion :
Is it a bad idea. IRC is not for old people, fashion here is of no interest at all.
I would understand better if you used the other social networks to bring people to IRC, your TINS site, and in the forum, like i do in reddit (I'm posting things there, including TINS).

But Discord is dead, I don't see people there, just like the matrix and telegram, all dead. I think aggressive advertising collapses any mind, making it believe that they are popular, crowded and very fashionable.

I posted my wish list rules on the KrampusHack website ✅. These were my rules:

• Invincibility or Death - You must choose between a game design where either 1) the player can only die once and then must restart the game from the beginning, or 2) the player will remain alive throughout the whole game and no action can result in death or restarting the game, until the very end. No lives, restore states, or save points. (For clarity, you may only choose one of these designs for your game, and not allow the player to choose between the two within the game, for example).

• Thingadex - Your game should include a gameplay mechanic where you collect multiple things and record them in an encyclopedia or index where you can view and read about the items you collected. You might even include an achievement if your player catches them all!

• Always Be Learning - Explore some new game design or programming technique that you are not familiar with. A 3D game, turn-based battle style gameplay, etc. Try something you haven’t done before.

Before choosing these, my GF and I brainstormed a list of ideas. In addition to the ones we chose above, we also came up the ones listed below. If you're having trouble coming up with some wish rules, maybe you can use these as inspiration (or you can choose them outright, if you want, no matter to me ). Here are the rules we ended up not using:

Krampus Hack 2021 Wishlist Ideas

Technical

• Always Ready to Ship - The game you're making should always be a working game. It may suck, it may be lame during development, but it’s always playable and ready for production. You might start with only a simple gameplay mechanism, then build on it iteratively until the end of the hackathon.

• Component Based Design - Your game’s objects should be encapsulated into a lot of small classes that have few responsibilities. Avoid packing a lot of features into a single class, and prefer splitting a monolith into several smaller classes. For inspiration, you might watch Sandi Metz talk All the Little Things. If you’re not using object-oriented programming, you can omit this rule.

Creative / Artistic

• Rule of Thirds - Timing is everything. Things in the game should happen in threes. Three levels in a world, three evolutions in the final boss, three upgrades to the master sword, anything goes. The rule does not have to apply to everything, only a few key elements of your core game’s mechanic.

• Costume Change - Allow the player to customize character(s), either throughout the game or in the beginning. The customizations should not affect the gameplay in any significant way (though other characters or game elements might comment on it).

• Music Changes - Music should change according to the environment, or different things that are happening in the game. Even slight changes, a fighting game comes down to the last punch and the music pumps up, the last lap in the racing game jumps up the tempo are some good examples.

Genre

• Multiple Choice - The gameplay should involve choosing from multiple options. Choose your own adventure options, dialog response options, outfits, are a few examples.

• Mythical Fantasy - Your game should be based in a mythical fantasy world. Uninhabited by humans, your setting is in magic and nature, and is a part of the living forests, waters, beasts, and fairies.

• Multiple Endings - The game should have different endings depending on choices that were made throughout the game. Some examples: a good happy ending (everyone is happy), a bad ending (everyone dies, your friend betrays you), a true ending (realistic conclusion, your friends go their separate ways). Depending on the ending, it may even result in additional gameplay.

Miscellaneous

• Act of Cat - You can remove any other rule if you include a pink cat as an easter egg somewhere in your game, either as an item, or element in a room, etc.

Discord is all right, but let's make sure it stays on topic and only has a few channels. I tried Discord with the Zelda remake team, and it was a massive cluster fsck. I couldn't navigate the thing and it turned me off to discord in general.

Well, sign me up. Where's it at?

You'll almost always want at least 2 channels if you want an active server, one on topic, and one off topic.

Once I'm home, I'll join the server.

What do you call an active server?

It's pretty good right now with 11 members, but that's probably the level where it will stay for the time being.

NO NO NO AND NO!!!!!!! WHAT FAULT DO WE HAVE THAT THEY DON'T ADAPT TO US?????????? FORGET ABOUT DISCORD, NEVER TO TOUCH THEM, LET THEM KNOW THAT THAT SERVER IS THE WORST!!!!!!!

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