Epicmafia

Cycling Minigames

over 6 years

Since dooze cracked down on the minigames playable in Sandbox Lobby, I have thought of a (highly) original idea to cycle minigames around.

As of right now, the games that can be played are:

Ghost
Tiramisu
Jotto
Draw It!
Dice Wars
Battle Snakes
Cheat
Acrotopia

One of those is a 2 player game (Jotto), and one of them can be 2 player games but usually won't be played that way (Battle Snakes). There are eight games in total, not including mafia.

If we decide to cycle Jotto, we would then have 7 permanent minigames. Because we don't want to take over Games Lobby, I'd suggest we keep the total number of minigames here at a maximum of 10. So, we would be cycling at maximum 3 (or 2 if Jotto is permanent) of the below games.

Connect Four
Checkers
Liar's Dice
Crazy Eights
Ratscrew
Reversi
Concentration
Hearts
Texas Hold'em
Sink!
Chinese Checkers
Go
Battlegrounds
Chess
Mancala
Dots and Boxes
Boggle
Crack the Code
Stack it!
Hex
Jotto [Optional]

I'd also suggest that we follow an order for the cycling, which I believe the list above would suffice (I also made a suggested cycle list below which has a more balanced cycling). The first three will be allowed during the first cycle, and so on.

But of course, that also brings up timing, which I am disputed on. If we're all being honest here, daily cycling won't work. So, either weekly, biweekly, or monthly sounds like a good cycle time to me. In any case, I made a nifty little poll on the side, so make sure to vote to let your voice be heard.

Dooze, if you think this idea won't be too taxing on your own priorities, please give it a thought. Thank you.

Suggested Cycle (with cycling Jotto):

Cycle 1 - Connect Four - Checkers - Reversi

Cycle 2 - Crazy Eights - Ratscrew - Liar's Dice

Cycle 3 - Mancala - Concentration - Texas Hold'em

Cycle 4 - Sink! - Chinese Checkers - Go

Cycle 5 - Battlegrounds - Chess - Hearts

Cycle 6 - Stack it! - Boggle - Crack the Code

Cycle 7 - Dots and Boxes - Hex - Jotto

Suggested Cycle (without cycling Jotto):

Cycle 1 - Connect Four - Checkers

Cycle 2 - Go - Ratscrew

Cycle 3 - Mancala - Concentration

Cycle 4 - Sink! - Chinese Checkers

Cycle 5 - Battlegrounds - Chess

Cycle 6 - Stack it! - Boggle

Cycle 7 - Dots and Boxes - Hex

Cycle 8 - Reversi - Crack the Code

Cycle 9 - Hearts - Crazy Eights

Cycle 10 - Texas Hold'em - Liar's Dice

tl;dr: The lobby should allow certain minigames which change within a certain timeframe

Minigame Cycling

6 signed

sounds like a good idea!

How many and how often should minigames be cycled?

3 new games every month

3 new games every week

Not Doppler: New games every Thursday

3 new games every 2 weeks

2 new games every week, keep Jotto

2 new games every month, keep Jotto

2 new games every 2 weeks, keep Jotto

jingahegami

over 6 years

female says

just go to games lobby???????????????

female

over 6 years

just go to games lobby???????????????

YellowPear

over 6 years

My suggestion:

Cycle 1: Not ratscrew

Cycle 2: Not ratscrew

Cycle 3: Not ratscrew

Cycle 4: Not ratscrew

Cycle 5: Not ratscrew

Cycle 6: Not ratscrew

Cycle 7: Not ratscrew

Volta

over 6 years

My suggestion:

Cycle 1: Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex
Cycle 2:Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex
Cycle 3:Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex
Cycle 4:Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex
Cycle 5:Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex
Cycle 6:Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex
Cycle 7:Ghost Tiramisu Jotto Draw It! Dice Wars Battle Snakes Cheat Acrotopia Connect Four Checkers Liar's Dice Crazy Eights Ratscrew Reversi Concentration Hearts Texas Hold'em Sink! Chinese Checkers Go Battlegrounds Chess Mancala Dots and Boxes Boggle Crack the Code Stack it! Hex

123emilS

over 6 years

I just want chess back.

Psy

over 6 years

YellowPear says

hikage says

easily solved by removing all minigames from sandbox

tbh i just want everyone to look at my top of the line lobby banners

HA! I got you motherf*cker;
In this japanese school there is only 2 rules.

#1 Here, drugs are sold.
#2 I SELL THE DRUGS.

You got it?
no?

* stabs you with a knife *

Haha, poor newbie, dead on his first day.

this is the funniest post ive seen on this websit

jingahegami

over 6 years

come to games lobby i want to terrorize more innocent users

BiIlyHerrington

over 6 years

I vote for Xiangqi

deletedover 6 years

YellowPear says

hikage says

easily solved by removing all minigames from sandbox

tbh i just want everyone to look at my top of the line lobby banners

HA! I got you motherf*cker;
In this japanese school there is only 2 rules.

#1 Here, drugs are sold.
#2 I SELL THE DRUGS.

You got it?
no?

* stabs you with a knife *

Haha, poor newbie, dead on his first day.

unplug your keyboard

blood4bloodgod

over 6 years

hey dingdongs, how about bringing back chess and mancala

YellowPear

over 6 years

hikage says

easily solved by removing all minigames from sandbox

tbh i just want everyone to look at my top of the line lobby banners

HA! I got you motherf*cker;
In this japanese school there is only 2 rules.

#1 Here, drugs are sold.
#2 I SELL THE DRUGS.

You got it?
no?

* stabs you with a knife *

Haha, poor newbie, dead on his first day.

deletedover 6 years

easily solved by removing all minigames from sandbox

tbh i just want everyone to look at my top of the line lobby banners

deletedover 6 years

hangin' out in games lobby with all of my friends, oooooh boy these games are fillin' fast!

baljeet

over 6 years

keep games lobby so i can keep abusing power

Shwartz99

over 6 years

Games Lobby isn't completely dead so that's why we should kill it.

mutie

over 6 years

i think this is really well thought out but i dont think people's preference of what minigame to play will change based on what cycle it is
most users only play a few minigames (the popular ones like draw it, snake, ghost) so cycling minigames probably won't have the intended effect if people can just go into games lobby and play the specific minigame they have in mind
that said is it really even necessary to have games in sandbox? games lobby isn't completely dead people still definitely do go there to play games with friends and its really not hard to message a few people and ask them to join your game in games lobby i think it's definitely more organized to separate lobbies by game type

Shwartz99

over 6 years

Shwartz99 says

Suggested Cycle (with cycling Jotto):
Cycle 1 - Connect Four - Checkers - Reversi
Cycle 2 - Crazy Eights - Ratscrew - Liar's Dice
Cycle 3 - Mancala - Concentration - Texas Hold'em
Cycle 4 - Sink! - Chinese Checkers - Go
Cycle 5 - Battlegrounds - Chess - Hearts
Cycle 6 - Stack it! - Boggle - Crack the Code
Cycle 7 - Dots and Boxes - Hex - Jotto

Suggested Cycle (without cycling Jotto):
Cycle 1 - Connect Four - Checkers
Cycle 2 - Go - Ratscrew
Cycle 3 - Mancala - Concentration
Cycle 4 - Sink! - Chinese Checkers
Cycle 5 - Battlegrounds - Chess
Cycle 6 - Stack it! - Boggle
Cycle 7 - Dots and Boxes - Hex
Cycle 8 - Reversi - Crack the Code
Cycle 9 - Hearts - Crazy Eights
Cycle 10 - Texas Hold'em - Liar's Dice

What do you guys think?

Shwartz99

over 6 years

Alyssa says

That being said you can be sure as hell that more people will be playing mancala or chess over ratscrew, so you'd have to balance it so there's never 3 unpopular 2 player games at the same time, to go along with the idea

I was actually thinking about that, I'll create some cycles of games right now

Alyssa

over 6 years

That being said you can be sure as hell that more people will be playing mancala or chess over ratscrew, so you'd have to balance it so there's never 3 unpopular 2 player games at the same time, to go along with the idea

Alyssa

over 6 years

It's a nice idea but I don't understand why there's an issue if certain games are here, certainly if spamming isn't an actual issue and were just some light critiques really

If games lobby has to depend on sandbox users going over there to be a community for them then it deserves to die lol

Bebop

over 6 years

if it's awkward for dooze to do this but it's something she's interested in it's within my powers to change what minigames are and aren't enabled for the lobby so i can help