SA Suggestion: "Mini-games"

[TheDesigner 1197]

To me, one of DayZ's iconic images is sitting around a campfire at night with some friends and relaxing. When I used to play with a group (Walking Militia), a majority of our time was spent at our campsite waiting for/figuring out what to do. Sometimes it was even to what for night to do raids on the airfield. What would really add to this is 3 "mini-games" I have in mind.

All of these could be accessed by sitting down and receiving a scroll menu to choose which "mini-game" to play.

1. Go Fish

Simple card game, takes nothing to learn. We already saw that their are cards in game, why not have the ability to play with friends? When sitting down, you'd look at the person you want to ask and scroll your mouse wheel for options on which card in your hand to ask for. Cheating would be disabled. This one speaks for itself so not much explaining. The UI would need work along with it's mechanics, but it'd be a cool feature to add in to remind people that DayZ is also about surviving, not just killing.

2. Counting ammo in a clip/manual reload

Rocket seems to be hinting at more realism when it comes to your ammo and not knowing how many bullets you have in a magazine, so this would be a cool "mini-game" to play at a campfire. It would zoom you in to a pile of your clips. You'd empty all your mags after a long day of looting into a pile and would load the empty mags with ammo manually, dragging each bullet to the clip. Time consuming but satisfying and IMO more immersing

3. Cleaning your gun/attachment adding

With weapon degradation in DayZ SA, this would be a good way to counter that. You could maybe find extra barrels around Chernaraus to replace a rusty one/broken one from a gunfight. This could also allow you to customize your weapon and add attachments onto it. It could be simplified and just require dragging pieces away from eachother or it could require actual knowledge.

Of course engine limitations might make it so these have to be dumbed down/non existent, but so far the coders of DayZ mod, like Razor, have surprised me with the things they are capable of doing, so I won't say they can't do it until they tell me so.

Also if someone's already suggested some of these, which I think they have (weapon cleaning/manual loading), my bad. This thread is mostly for the "Go Fish". I did it from mobile too, so be easy on me with spelling errors.

Edited July 7, 2013 by TheDesigner

[OrLoK 16188]

Hello there

Im a big fan of mini games from my Systemshock days. surely we can find a gameboy equivalent and the batteries to power it. I'd like also like to see mundane tasks like weapon cleaning etc.

Rgds

LoK

[TheDesigner 1197]

Hello there

Im a big fan of mini games from my Systemshock days. surely we can find a gameboy equivalent and the batteries to power it. I'd like also like to see mundane tasks like weapon cleaning etc.

Rgds

LoK

Yeah, after getting into paintball, where cleaning your gun after every session is important so if imagine a gun that possibly has gore and dirt all in it needs a good cleaning or it's going to jan very easily.

[NotRedd 51]

there should be a minigame for gun cleaning. so if you pick up an as50 or whatever you dont exactly know how to clean or take it apart. so eventually after having the gun for awhile you learn how to clean guns and shit.

also if you dont do a good job, it will affect your guns performance.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

I'd like something like this.

I think when you say "mini-games" in relation to DayZ people cringe and write it off before thinking about it because the words just sound too cutesy for the bleak world of DayZ. If done well however they could fit and add some extra interest to what would otherwise be potentially boring moments.

[TheDesigner 1197]

I'd like something like this.

I think when you say "mini-games" in relation to DayZ people cringe and write it off before thinking about it because the words just sound too cutesy for the bleak world of DayZ. If done well however they could fit and add some extra interest to what would otherwise be potentially boring moments.

Yeah, that's why I used the quotations, because I couldn't really think of a word to describe them as. Time-wasters, maybe :P?

[nik21 287]

I like the idea, it's an interesting way of doing normal stuff instead of pressing e.g. "clean weapon".

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

what about russian roulette? :P

[Korsbaek 1778]

Awesome :D I would love to fill each and every one of my mags manually. This would add so much to the immersion!

[Walking Wounded 199]

what about russian roulette? :P

you joke.. but hell yes!

[Crazy one 124]

what about russian roulette? :P

Damn someone beat me to it.

[wild_man 4442]

i like card games idea. :thumbsup: I find cards today but they just stay in the box. :(

Cleening guns and take them to pieces for mending is also gud and i would like to see it. :thumbsup:

They could make it so you can make new gub=ns with old broke one. Like a Winchester wood with ak mags and double shotgun barrels. :P

[BwobBwub 660]

I wouldn't call them mini games, just wasting idle time.

[harley001 315]

I actually liked these. +1

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

I wouldn't call them mini games, just idle time well spent.

fixed :)

[BSB Jimmy 360]

+1 for this, great idea

[TheDesigner 1197]

I wouldn't call them mini games, just wasting idle time.

Mini games in the sense that they are a gae of sorts within a game that takes user input to complete.

[Fraggle (DayZ) 15720]

Mini games in the sense that they are a gae of sorts within a game that takes user input to complete.

Yeh, one I'd like to see that would take some skill and fit well would be when it comes to repairing cars. You could try different things from your inventory to start it up but would take actual knowledge to do it well or quickly. It wouldn;t have to be super complicated, it could be fairly basic but still need some knowledge.

Having seen the tools that are being added to the SA I have a feeling we might see something like that too once they overhaul the vehicle system later on.

Edited July 7, 2013 by Fraggle

[dayz standalone 33]

i like card games idea. :thumbsup: I find cards today but they just stay in the box. :(

This, It pisses me off finding a wet pack of cards.I would like to get some cards, go to a town(without getting my head blown off), gather up some fellow survivors and just sit down and play some cards.

Edited July 7, 2013 by dayz standalone

[TheDesigner 1197]

This, It pisses me off finding a wet pack of cards.I would like to get some cards, go to a town(without getting my head blown off), gather up some fellow survivors and just sit down and play some cards.

Got any... Jokers? Hue hue hue hue.

What could be better than a can of soda, a campfire, some warm beans, and a very aggressive game of Go Fish?

[ibux (DayZ) 22]

a game of poker using ammo as money

[TheDesigner 1197]

a game of poker using ammo as money

Yep, things like that could happen. I don't see a downside to these mechanics, only the hundreds of possibilities.

[Crazy one 124]

a game of poker using ammo as money

Or a form of strip poker, your backpacks and content/ guns as money.

Edited July 8, 2013 by Crazy one

[Lady Kyrah 1110]

I''d prefer a working set of playing cards that you can use any way you wish. Ultima online had checker boards and pieces, but all the players could move any pieces anywhere, there was no "encoded" rules. If you where to play chess with someone it was a social contract.

[TheDesigner 1197]

I''d prefer a working set of playing cards that you can use any way you wish. Ultima online had checker boards and pieces, but all the players could move any pieces anywhere, there was no "encoded" rules. If you where to play chess with someone it was a social contract.

*See Desperate Gods*

Edited July 8, 2013 by TheDesigner