I just want to get an idea of how much community interest there would be for an idea of mine, before I get too far with it. I''m working on a simple board game vaguely similar to chess, but on a hex-tile board (by the way, I don''t expect to make much/any money out of this, it''s really just a hobby project). I''m mostly interested in the graphics and the game logic aspects of it, and I don''t think I''d do well on the AI portion. So I was thinking that I''d write it in such a way that it could use plugin AIs, and supply a simple SDK with the game. But, I''d still need to supply some sample AIs or no one will be interested in the game long enough to want to write a better AI for it. So, how many of you would be interested in working on a just-for-fun project like this? I believe it would be an interesting challenge from an AI perspective, and quite different from anything that most of you would have worked on before. I''m not asking for help now, I just want see if I''m counting my chickens (so to speak), before I go ahead and write the thing.

quote: Original post by Plasmadog
I just want to get an idea of how much community interest there would be for an idea of mine, before I get too far with it.
I'm working on a simple board game vaguely similar to chess, but on a hex-tile board (by the way, I don't expect to make much/any money out of this, it's really just a hobby project). I'm mostly interested in the graphics and the game logic aspects of it, and I don't think I'd do well on the AI portion. So I was thinking that I'd write it in such a way that it could use plugin AIs, and supply a simple SDK with the game. But, I'd still need to supply some sample AIs or no one will be interested in the game long enough to want to write a better AI for it.
So, how many of you would be interested in working on a just-for-fun project like this? I believe it would be an interesting challenge from an AI perspective, and quite different from anything that most of you would have worked on before.
I'm not asking for help now, I just want see if I'm counting my chickens (so to speak), before I go ahead and write the thing.

I think anything along these lines is always a great idea (but of course, I'm biased). I love seeing games that allow users to add their own AIs through some kind of SDK and to be honest I've not seen a board game implementation that did that.

I say go for it!




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Edited by - Ferretman on January 24, 2002 12:44:23 AM