I’ve been a member of a discord community for over 6 years now. On any given night you’ll find people playing anything from Battlefield 6, Arc Raiders, Overwatch 2, etc. It’s a very active community with weekly events and we even have a sim racing group finishing up another season in iRacing. If it sounds interesting, they have a website for applications Over 30 Clan
Apologies if this is considered soliciting. I don’t get many opportunities to mention it and it’s honestly a great community. It took me a long time to find one of this quality.
Nope.
Same. I think i’m too old to understand the point of discord.
I get the point, but I just don’t agree with it.
For example: I put some thought into finding a final fantasy 14 guild to help with putting together parties for content (so I don’t need to wait 40+ minutes for less common but mandatory ones) but virtually all the ones I found were “discord required”.
I just want someone to play content with occasionally, not a full time, always on community that demands I engage with it all the time.
We’ll make our own group, with matrix and hookers! On second thought, forget the hookers, keanu reeves is too wholesome for hookers, and will bring in enough friends for us all to sit shoulder to shoulder with as we take the red pills.
I understand. It’s an unfortunate requirement since the community was built entirely around discord. It’s really the only thing I use discord for.
Makes sense, seems like most guilds now require discord. I just have no interest in being beholden to another enshitified service.
Sadly discord does make voice-comms quite simple.
TeamSpeak and Ventrilo still exist, Mumble does too, and Tox.
Trade offs for features and functionality with all of those, but I’m fairly sure those do all run on both Windows and Linux, at least, the latter 2 are open source, and the first two, well, you run your own dedi voice server, so that’s at least less bad than Discord.
Hell, back in like, 2009, me and a friend group just had an eternal Skype group call, used that for gaming voice comms and general chat.
EDIT: Also, apropo of nothing… how’s that card game framework going?
This whole year I’ve been mostly doing PT, recovering from injuries, hard to do serious game dev with a torqued up wrist arm and shoulder, but I am finally starting to get decent function back…
… it might be fun to try to basically remake Caravan from New Vegas, you think that would be possible in your framework?
Yes and they’re as much as a PITA to use as they’ve always been. There’s a reason discord almost immediately swooped their userbases.
Currently development is on hiatus due to lack of time. But it’s still working so people can always take and improve on it. I just don’t have the mental space to work on it atm.
I don’t know the game, but any kind of game is possible in the framework. Just remember that it doesn’t include multiplayer, so you’d have to add that yourself, or make it single-player only.
To all 3 points: Fair enough!
Yeah, Caravan is the card game from New Vegas, it probably would not be too difficult to replicate its AI for playing against NPCs.
Its… kind of like comepetetive, 2 player Solitaire, if that makes any sense.
Played with standard cards, not like TCG cards, you try to build 3 different ‘caravans’ of between 21 and 26 total… so, sorta like blackjack/21 in that aspect… but, face cards can be played on either your caravans or your opponents, and they do special things.
The other element of Caravan is that you can play with custom decks, but you have to have a card from a different art style of deck to be able to have duplicates.
So… its… played with normal cards, but each player is playing their own deck.
In New Vegas, this integrates with the rest of the game, as it incentivizes exploration.
If you have a decent deck and know how to play Caravan, its basically an infinite money cheat, you can clean out many NPC Caravan players.
For a card game only version… maybe you could make it so that you can just win certain ‘prize pool’ cards, sort of like how Pokemon works.
Maybe instead of anteing up caps, you could mix in anteing up some of your own cards, and the NPC has to match in kind.
They’ve been around since 2010, so it ended up being structured entirely astound discord. Other than this community, I really don’t have much use for discord.