Comment by ☯️ dragfyre
hmm, i haven't added my two cents yet.
i love smol games, have loved them since i was a kid making goofy joke programs in BASIC on an Apple //e.
Everything I've made so far, from bots to CGI scripts, has been for myself because i love it and want it around. if other people want it too, then so much the better. i guess that kind of directs where i put my (already quite limited) free time, because i'm not likely to take on something that i won't enjoy myself. 🤷♂️
2025-08-04 · 9 months ago
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🐑 zipsegv · 2025-08-09 at 08:20:
I think Gemini games are kind of cool; it's cool to see what people can do given the limits of the protocol. I think games would best be text-based though and try to limit the use of graphics (e.g. via preformatted blocks); that preserves accessibility so anyone can play. As well as that, games should be slow-paced; one should be able to ignore the game for a few days and be able to drop back in where they were not having missed anything. I think something paced similar to nationstates would work well, where you handle a few events every day, but you can skip days or weeks and just handle them later if you want.
I've seen an idea for a Pokémon-like suggested above, and I think that could work (perhaps every day you could get a new encounter or something?) although I would try to simplify the control scheme as much as possible while still keeping it fun.
In addition, I think multiplayer games should always be playable even if there's a single active user. ideally multiplayer games would be "optionally multiplayer" where there can be player interaction but the core of the game works whether there's other players or not. (in the case of a Pokémon-style game, I'd think being able to "challenge" other players to a battle would suit this)
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— On Gemini Games [adavies.foo]
On Gemini Games — Hello everyone! Im new to the geminispace , and I could not avoid to note that there are not much games here. The idea of having more games here, and the ability to implement them, is something that really interests me, so I made a posts about it in my capsule: I would love you to read it and let me know what you think! I do believe that this would be a really nice addition to Gemini.