That is very clever indeed! A long while ago I started thinking about how to turn Klondike solitaire into a multiplayer game. I wrote a bit of code. Put it aside for a while. Wrote more code. Bought a domain. Wrote a little bit more code. And then stopped.
The problem in my case is that I still haven't decided quite how to make it multiplayer.
Kudos to pkstn for being clever and executing the idea well too.
By the way, if anyone has any ideas for how multiplayer solitaire could work, let me know in a reply to this comment :)
I've had two different possible ideas in mind so far:
1) Do it similar to "Twitch plays Pokemon". Everyone can input the next move. And I think the action taken should be consensus-based. Even then someone could try and ruin it though by just controlling a lot of players. With Twitch plays Pokemon they were able to complete the game eventually even with the people working against the goal. But with a short game like Klondike solitaire it will be very easy for someone to ruin it for everyone. Even if the game has undo.
2) Everyone plays alone but they compete in real-time against others. However, bots would likely beat everyone and ruin the fun of that.
So I think neither of the two initial ideas I had were good enough. I think something clever needs to be done.
I suppose that one could incorporate Klondike as part a bigger overarching world where you do Klondike "battles" against either other players or against individual NPCs by yourself, or as a team against NPCs or something. But then the question becomes what is the motivation for having Klondike be part of the game at all? And the problem of bots being able to beat everyone would still be hard to get rid of I think.
Here is the site I put up for mine: https://klondike-mmo.com/. None of the buttons on my site do anything, heh :P
That is very clever indeed! A long while ago I started thinking about how to turn Klondike solitaire into a multiplayer game. I wrote a bit of code. Put it aside for a while. Wrote more code. Bought a domain. Wrote a little bit more code. And then stopped.
The problem in my case is that I still haven't decided quite how to make it multiplayer.
Kudos to pkstn for being clever and executing the idea well too.
By the way, if anyone has any ideas for how multiplayer solitaire could work, let me know in a reply to this comment :)
I've had two different possible ideas in mind so far:
1) Do it similar to "Twitch plays Pokemon". Everyone can input the next move. And I think the action taken should be consensus-based. Even then someone could try and ruin it though by just controlling a lot of players. With Twitch plays Pokemon they were able to complete the game eventually even with the people working against the goal. But with a short game like Klondike solitaire it will be very easy for someone to ruin it for everyone. Even if the game has undo.
2) Everyone plays alone but they compete in real-time against others. However, bots would likely beat everyone and ruin the fun of that.
So I think neither of the two initial ideas I had were good enough. I think something clever needs to be done.
I suppose that one could incorporate Klondike as part a bigger overarching world where you do Klondike "battles" against either other players or against individual NPCs by yourself, or as a team against NPCs or something. But then the question becomes what is the motivation for having Klondike be part of the game at all? And the problem of bots being able to beat everyone would still be hard to get rid of I think.
Here is the site I put up for mine: https://klondike-mmo.com/. None of the buttons on my site do anything, heh :P