Elements the Gumball Machine

[Hyroen]

With some decent conversation in the chat room, I agreed with an idea that there could be other aspects to Elements the Game. This could include maybe some sort of mini games that assuming, do not take much space, can be played. I do not know much about if it would be possible but it's good to keep the idea out there.

Elements Chess:

Ruby Dragon as the King[/li] Elite Queen as the Queen (obviously)[/li] Elite Armagio as the Rook[/li] Elite Anubis as the Bishop[/li] Elite Shrieker as the Knight[/li] Elite Skeleton as the Pawn [/li]

Elements Tic Tac Toe:

Ball Lightning as X[/li] Ray of Light as O[/li]

Elements Poker (If allowed):

Card Number = Card Cost, therefore:[/li] 1 = Brimstone Eater[/li] 2 = Giant Frog[/li] 3 = Condor[/li] 4 = Elite Wyrm[/li] 5 = Vampire[/li] 6 = Archangel[/li] 7 = Elite Queen[/li] 8 = Dark Nymph[/li] 9 = Pharaoh[/li] 10 = Ivory Dragon[/li] 11 = Amethyst Dragon[/li] 12 = Ruby Dragon[/li] 13 = Light Dragon[/li] If possible, change backgrounds to Darkness for Spades, Death for Clubs, Fire for Hearts and Light for Diamonds as well as switching cost symbols for the respective backgrounds.[/li]

(ok, so Poker is a little shaky but xD)

Just some ideas...
Discuss

EDIT1: Thanks to lordpants for 5 = Vampire and 6 = Archangel

[Hobnob5000]

Would we still refer to the cards as "King", "Ace", etc. Saying "Light Dragon of Darkness" is going to be a bit weird, and a mouthful, when we could say "King of Spades", with just the card as a picture on it.

I like the idea a lot actually, though I fully support changing the Ruby dragon to a Light Dragon in Chess. Thanks for making the King a Light Dragon though

[Hyroen]

In chess however I'm sorry to say the king is fairly fragile and should be defended by other creatures such as the Elite Armagio and Castling, if damage could be totally redirected.

Light Dragon is as we all know, very well endowed in the HP department and therefore should not be spending much time running, which is not quite the strategy of the King, that is of course, if you didn't have any other strategy to start of with for your King to be running.

[Hobnob5000]

Meh, Spose you're right.
Also, Armagio is a high hp creature, so I wouldn't expect it to do much moving, and yet it's under as a rook. Just a thought...

[guolin]

How about Chimera as Rook?

Btw, I fully support this idea!

[implosion]

Rooks are castles, so they should be sturdy. Chimera and armagio both make sense. I kind of like armagio, even though it doesn't fit the movement style of a rook. But then again, a castle really doesn't fit the movement style of a rook either

The others also make sense. Anubis as bishop makes sense partially because of the trident (staff) it's holding. Shrieker makes sense as a knight because it can burrow under other creatures (as opposed to jumping over them). Others are fairly intuitive, except I'm not sure about using a dragon of any kind as the king... the king is pretty lame as a piece.

[guolin]

Hmmm...how about Ray of Light as king? Weak and fragile, yet "important."

[Scaredgirl]

Are these mini-games supposed to be added to the game? If, yes, then I will move this to "Game Suggestions and Feedback".

I had a similar "mini-games" idea a while back. Elements Casino (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5955.0.html). Oracle is basically a mini-game, so adding new ones should not be a problem.

[Hyroen]

Well that would be ideal Scaredgirl. As I am not an expert at programming I'm not sure how much slower the addition of these minigames would make Elements the Game if by any amount. That would be my only concern.

But feel free to move this where you'd like.

[Scaredgirl]

Well that would be ideal Scaredgirl. As I am not an expert at programming I'm not sure how much slower the addition of these minigames would make Elements the Game if by any amount. That would be my only concern.

But feel free to move this where you'd like.

It wouldn't make the game any slower if it used the same system as the Oracle with a button and a new "room" for the mini-game. Loading times would increase a bit though unless you made a totally new page for all the mini-games.

My biggest worry with mini-games like this would be that it would make Elements "cheap" and totally kill any immersion (if there is any in CCG's). I don't think we should simply take a modern game and put Elements graphics on it. Better option would be to invent a new kind of game that somehow resembled games like chess or maybe even a card game like poker.

[kalkiran]

i think games should be unlocked with quests but with the option to use elec or not without elec no reward but still the fun of playing the game+personally i think this is better than the chess idea, and perhaps the unique game could be really awesome too... but for the deck of cards is it like this,
ace of clubs could be either light dragon of death or brimstone eater of death?
EDIT:sorry also i think your missing a trick there are thirteen elements including other and thirteen values to be filled....