I had an interesting idea for a minigame to include. Basically, it'd be like a solo version of Apples to Apples - you'd be dealt a random hand of red cards, and you'd pick the red card that went the best with a randomly selected green card. The judge would be taken entirely out of the game, so there wouldn't be any judging whether or not you picked the "right" one. It'd just be an opportunity to make funny connections without having to gather enough people together to play a real game.
Of course, there is a darker, more sinister purpose to the minigame behind its shiny exterior. When someone plays a round of the minigame, I record those results to fuel a useful service to the real game. Basically, it'd be popularity rankings on the red cards. So if you're playing a game and you're not sure which red card to play, you can ask the server which red cards are most popular based on the results of the minigame and the real game, both overall and in terms of the current green card. It's all about social computing and collective wisdom and Web 2.0 and other such things!
Any thoughts? Maybe this could be the basis of the Facebook app that someone keeps bugging me about (you know who you are :D).
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That would be kewl...but how would rank be determined when the game is first released and not a lot of people have played/contributed to the mini-game? Would rank not be used until the mini-game has accumulated a good number of answers?
Well, I doubt I'm going to have the minigame ready for version 1 of the game. This will give me time to collect initial results from the real game first, I think (hope?).
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