Liberal Arts Major
I feel somewhat squeamish making this available to the public in such a crude state; however, I wanted to release something today and this is all I have.
Scum, also known as Jackass, President, Asshole, and various other top-notch monikers, is a trick-taking game, so far as I know, where the goal is to run out of cards first. A more complete set of rules will be posted later; those of you who know how the game works can play now, I suppose, while the rest of you can anxiously await the explanation.
There are some caveats. Players who use IE are unable to access the rudimentary chat because their browser is trash. IEers also have to suffer through some other inconveniences, like having to scroll a lot more. There are numerous bugs. The interface to start and join games is sub-par at best. Find feature creep on the map of design foibles - you'll find this thing at the exact opposite point. In other news, it's also my first full-scale Ajax application thing, made possible once again by the great and powerful Sajax.
To start a game, go to New Game or whatever and start it. Then PM or IM people to join so that you know whether or not anybody else is in it before you go to Start Game and start it. After a game has been started, players should go to forside.php again and it'll redirect you - or you can just go to scum.php yourself. The game starter himself is provided with a link to the latter.
I'll be keeping and updating a list of known bugs and projected updates in this topic. For now, these lists look like this:
Bugs
- Doubtless there are more problems!
Features
Enjoy.
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Liberal Arts Major
I'll laugh so hard if Fimbulvinter is involved.
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Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
EDIT: I can actually think of one such problem right now. Once feature will be a "max players" setting on new games that will have the game start automatically when the last player possible joins. This potentially introduces a race condition if multiple people join or drop at the same time or if the game creator ends the game in the middle of the process. However, so long as the simultaneously-active population of this site stays at a comfortable 6ish, I don't see this particular bug being a problem.
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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