Hey, Xav
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> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:41:31 +0200
> Subject: Re: [HackIt Bar] [Game design] Hacking minigame - Phage Wars
>
> Hi Arthur,
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 00:25 +0300, Arthur Borba Lopes wrote:
> > (After re-writing it a lot, I think I came up with a consise
> > explination = ] )
>
> Yey! : )
>
> > On the subject of a Phage Wars minigame for the hacking moment:
> > Quite frankly, I'm not a fan of that idea, because Phage wars focus
> > itself on the managing of your cells and the combact strategy between
> > your's and your enemy's cells, and not on the penetration of the cell.
>
> Not sure what you mean - the goal remains to penetrate the other cells,
> no? Like in a Risk game, you have to manage your troups and deployment,
> but it only makes sense because of your goal (conquering other's
> territory) and the placement & movements of the other players' troops.
That's the thing: The goal is not exactly "to infect other cells": You can
finish a level with neutral cells still to be infected. The goal is subtlety
different: "To infect -your adversaries'- cells", which is "to become the
dominant species".
That is to say that the game focuses more on the battle between viruses, not on
infecting per se. A game about infecting per se could have levels that are
around breaching what barriers one cell has in order to infect it.
Phage Wars overlooks the infecting process, which is okay, because that's not
the game's focus. The infecting process can be a game on it's own, which is
what I belive we're aiming for and what I think that the references I brought
illustrate.
> > In a lot of other aspects, H4ck 1t! resembles Phage Wars quite
> > closely, but I belive that this one isn't one of them.
>
> I've been progressively telling myself that Phage wars is not the right
> choice too, but for another reason - I like it because of its strategic
> nature, and what we have been talking about in the positioning was less
> and less strategic. However, David seem to think we should stick to a
> strategy game, so it makes the choice of minigame harder until we finish
> that discussion.
>
> Which makes me even more willing to understand your point of view here -
> if we were to come back on the strategy game, Phage wars would still be
> my first choice right now. Could you elaborate a little?
In my opinion, what the Phage Wars gameplay has to offer is already implemented
in H4ck 1t: The idea of infectious territorial domination. The only thing that
might be missing is the whole "what to do with the infected websites?" thing,
but that's another story. But, anyway, yeah, I belive that Phage Wars has
already fufilled it's purpose with us, that's why I don't think that it may be
appropriate to the hacking minigame.
> Xavier.
>
>
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