A non-violent Minetest subgame
funTasia BloX World (this minetest subgame world module pack) was created for children who love to invent and create funTastic things rather than slay their pals or clean up their playgrounds.
Minetest is a block game primarly inspired by Minecraft. It is highly customizable by user scripts called mods. These mods are written in LUA script language and would be executed by an embedded LUA environment.
From the beginning of our childhood construction toys are present. They are considered as useful to train creativity and to learn how to abide rules. There are thousands of products out there - common toys and gaming software. Children start playing with new technologies at an increasingly early age. They explore the behavior of computer or smartphone apps and games intuitively without the ability to read. They are reliant on an intuitive and simple usablility. This would be arrived by a - non-cluttered - suitable pictograms, speech output and simple design instructions.
Most of gaming software imply some violent characteristics. For example, the player have to kill some non-playing characters (NPC) to get the chance to a specific game item or in-game animals must be slaughtered for food by players themself.
So children not only have to stress on the creative construction site, even more they must direct their focus to destructive details - at most in a matter of violence. Here funTasia BloX World comes into play.
Players in funTasia BloX World only have to focus on their
- social behavior in peer group
- own creative skills
Players in funTasia BloX World are prevented from
- destruct 'living environment' for subsistence
- fight nor destruct other players for benefits
- clean up their rooms and sandboxes
- violent speech
I'm pretty new to game scripting. By this project, I want to improve my skills about LUA and performant game scripting.
There are tons of awesome Minetest mods out there. At first I'll do some research about them to investigate best practices. Perhaps I am be able to collect them in a nice Wiki.
If I did something wrong or made some misspellings, you are pleased to correct me because I'm not a native english speaker.
Have I made some mistakes about licensing? Inform me in person and not by a lawyer. I'll declare a correction and a mention as soon as possible.
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SBS - Simple Biomes System
To keep the game as simple as possible for children, there should be no hard to reach and overburden areas.
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ECS - Emoji Communication System
- EmojiBloX - Emoji decoration blocks
- EmojiSticKerZ - Emoji decoration
- Unified EmojiBloX/EmojiSticKerZ configuration menu -> Administration
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I'm going to write an emoji system, which spawns emoji blocks over avatars head for some seconds. It should be possible to avoid text chat completely.
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NVS - Narrative Voice System
All game information should presented by spoken word in the form of little narrative stories. Also information should explained by pictograms suitable for children and some kind of full functional, animated in-game tutorials.
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HS - Housing System How to realize that? There should be an own server for that. LOTRO has a nice housing system...
- Idea: Housing for players (shared locked area)
- Idea: Sandbox for players (shared locked area)
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WAS - World Administration System
- UAS - User Administration System
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CYS - Construction Yard System
Construction Yard System means, that there should be a creators version of funTasia. Just for setting up the whole
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KS - Karma System
He who seeks his own happiness by not oppressing others, who also desire to have happiness, will find happiness in his next existence. ~ Dhammapada Verse 132
What the player gives should happen to the player thrice. So there a karma system should be implemented.
- Idea: Ecological behavior - deforest gives one negative karma point
- Idea: Ecological behavior - reforest gives one positive karma point
- Idea: Ecological behavior - burn things gives one negative karma point
- Idea: Ecological behavior - use renewable resources gives one positive karma point
- Idea: Social behavior - Spend meal to other player gives one positive karma point
- Idea: Social behavior - Communicate bad emoticons gives one negative karma point
- Idea: Order behavior - Clean up without using a clean up tool gives two positive karma points
- Idea: Order behavior - Put recipe to foliant, folder or book gives one positive karma point
- a. s. o.
To the extent possible under law, Christian Trant has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to funTasia BloX World. This work is published from: Deutschland.
For further information see license.md or http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ .