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Hadronize

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Hadronize

This is my first devlog for this project. It’s a multiplayer strategy game that you can play in your browser.

https://github.com/ethmarks/hadronize

Basically the only things that I’ve done so far are write the rules in the README and brainstorm a bunch. The rules are pretty important, so I’ll write them in this devlog. Because there’s a 4000-character limit to Stardance devlogs, I’m going to try to keep the rules shorter and less thorough than I did in the README.

Rules

Hadronize is a 2-6 player game which will probably take about ~10 minutes per game.

  • The goal is to be the first player to hadronize 10 or more quarks.
  • Quarks are basically the cards. There are 6 different flavors of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top. By the way, I’m not making that part up.
  • Quarks start out as Superposed Quarks, which are quarks in a state of superposition between three different flavors. Once the superposition collapses (more on that later), it chooses one of the three flavors in its superposition and becomes a normal quark with a single flavor.
  • Each player starts with four collapsed quarks with randomly-chosen flavors in their respective cloud chamber.
  • On each turn, a new superposed quark appears. The players know that the quark will be one of the three flavors in its superposition, but they don’t know which one. The player whose turn it is (aka the active player) will choose any player (including themselves) to be the observing player. The observing player observes the superposed quark, which collapses it and adds it to their cloud chamber.
    • If the observing player has none of that flavor (e.g. the new quark collapsed into charm and the player only has down quarks), then nothing else happens and the turn ends.
    • But if the observing player does have at least one quark of the same flavor, something does happen.
      • If the active player chose themselves to be the observing player, the new quark reacts with all existing quarks of the same flavor, and they all hadronize together.
      • If the active player chose a different player to be the observing player, the new quark reacts with all existing quarks of the same flavor, and they all quantum tunnel from the observing player’s chamber into the active player’s chamber. In other words, the active player steals some of the observing player’s quarks.

If my explanation is unclear, check out the README because I probably explained it better there. If the README is unclear too, feel free to let me know by commenting on this devlog or opening an issue or whatever.

Mantis

If the rules sound familiar, it’s because I mostly just stole them from the card game Mantis by Exploding Kittens. My original idea was to just create a digital version of Mantis, but I was concerned about running into copyright trouble if I called it “Mantis” and used the same terminology and whatnot. Game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, but names and terminology absolutely can. I considered just making my game about abstract colors, but then I suddenly realized that making it about quarks would fit really well, so I did that instead. I did make a few changes to the core mechanics (e.g. using 6 flavors instead of 7 colors, and combining “scoring” and “stealing” into “observing”), but it’s still basically just a reskin of Mantis.

Next Steps

Obviously the first thing that I need to do is actually implement the game logic in TypeScript, but I’m not 100% sure what I should do after that. I’ll come up with a plan in my next devlog.

P.S. I also spent like an hour making a terrible-looking banner for Hadronize to use as the Stardance project image.

@ethmarks

Hadronize

This is my first devlog for this project. It’s a multiplayer strategy game that you can play in your browser.

https://github.com/ethmarks/hadronize

Basically the only things that I’ve done so far are write the rules in the README and brainstorm a bunch. The rules are pretty important, so I’ll write them in this devlog. Because there’s a 4000-character limit to Stardance devlogs, I’m going to try to keep the rules shorter and less thorough than I did in the README.

Rules

Hadronize is a 2-6 player game which will probably take about ~10 minutes per game.

  • The goal is to be the first player to hadronize 10 or more quarks.
  • Quarks are basically the cards. There are 6 different flavors of quark: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top. By the way, I’m not making that part up.
  • Quarks start out as Superposed Quarks, which are quarks in a state of superposition between three different flavors. Once the superposition collapses (more on that later), it chooses one of the three flavors in its superposition and becomes a normal quark with a single flavor.
  • Each player starts with four collapsed quarks with randomly-chosen flavors in their respective cloud chamber.
  • On each turn, a new superposed quark appears. The players know that the quark will be one of the three flavors in its superposition, but they don’t know which one. The player whose turn it is (aka the active player) will choose any player (including themselves) to be the observing player. The observing player observes the superposed quark, which collapses it and adds it to their cloud chamber.
    • If the observing player has none of that flavor (e.g. the new quark collapsed into charm and the player only has down quarks), then nothing else happens and the turn ends.
    • But if the observing player does have at least one quark of the same flavor, something does happen.
      • If the active player chose themselves to be the observing player, the new quark reacts with all existing quarks of the same flavor, and they all hadronize together.
      • If the active player chose a different player to be the observing player, the new quark reacts with all existing quarks of the same flavor, and they all quantum tunnel from the observing player’s chamber into the active player’s chamber. In other words, the active player steals some of the observing player’s quarks.

If my explanation is unclear, check out the README because I probably explained it better there. If the README is unclear too, feel free to let me know by commenting on this devlog or opening an issue or whatever.

Mantis

If the rules sound familiar, it’s because I mostly just stole them from the card game Mantis by Exploding Kittens. My original idea was to just create a digital version of Mantis, but I was concerned about running into copyright trouble if I called it “Mantis” and used the same terminology and whatnot. Game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, but names and terminology absolutely can. I considered just making my game about abstract colors, but then I suddenly realized that making it about quarks would fit really well, so I did that instead. I did make a few changes to the core mechanics (e.g. using 6 flavors instead of 7 colors, and combining “scoring” and “stealing” into “observing”), but it’s still basically just a reskin of Mantis.

Next Steps

Obviously the first thing that I need to do is actually implement the game logic in TypeScript, but I’m not 100% sure what I should do after that. I’ll come up with a plan in my next devlog.

P.S. I also spent like an hour making a terrible-looking banner for Hadronize to use as the Stardance project image.

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