For fun I am attempting to implement the game described in the GDC 2013 talk by Luke Muscat from Halfbrick Studios. https://youtu.be/t9WMNuyjm4w
- All players start at a random location on the grid, and have 3 hearts and 0 Action Points
- Every 24 hours each player will receive 1 Action Point (AP)
- At any time you like, you can do one of the four following actions.
- Move to an adjacent, unoccupied square (1 AP)
- Shoot someone who is within your range (1 AP). Shooting someone removes 1 heart from their health.
- Add a heart (3 AP)
- Upgrade your range (3 AP)
- At the start of the game, everyone has a range of 2. That is they can shoot or trade with someone within 2 squares of them. Upgrading your shooting range increases this by 1 square each time.
- If a players reduced to 0 hearts then they are dead. Any action points the dead player had are transferred to the player who killed them. Dead players remain on the board and are not removed.
- Players are able to send gifts of hearts or action points to any player currently within their range.
- Dead players can have a heart sent to them. This will revive that player who will have 1 heart and 0 AP.
- Dead players form a jury. Each day they vote, and whoever receives most votes will be haunted and not receive any AP that day.
- Once a day at a random time, a heart will spawn on the field. The first player to move in the square containing the heart will receive an additional heart.
- The game ends when a clear 1st 2nd and 3rd place can be determined. Once there are 4 players left we will see if they can agree on the placing.
- Action points are secret. Probably a good idea to try and hide how many you have.
- You can’t win this game without making some friends and stabbing some backs. Probably.
To start your Phoenix server:
- Install dependencies with
mix deps.get - Create and migrate your database with
mix ecto.setup - Start Phoenix endpoint with
mix phx.serveror inside IEx withiex -S mix phx.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.