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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

  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.

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  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TeamSpeak and Ventrilo still exist, Mumble does too, and Tox.

    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.

    EDIT: Also, apropo of nothing… how’s that card game framework going?

    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.

    … it might be fun to try to basically remake Caravan from New Vegas, you think that would be possible in your framework?

    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.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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… 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.

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