FIRSTopoly for PC

[Steve S.]

Hi everyone.....

Im looking for some programming help with FIRSTopoly...im not all that great with programming otherwise id try it myself. This is based on the monopoly for pc, but with different properties and chance/community chest cards of course .

A Beta will be released at the end of july...no dates for a final version yet. so if anyone has some free time..HELP!

(fyi: the game will not be called FIRSTopoly unless permission is obtained from USAopoly. FIRSTopoly is the codename for the project.)

*edit* A Board Game version will be made, no dates for release as of yet *edit*

[Dan Petrovic]

Dude!

Sweet! I can't help you... but... sweet!

Can we get a few examples of what pieces, properties, and chance/community chest cards might be?

[Steve S.]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Dude!

Sweet! I can't help you... but... sweet!

Can we get a few examples of what pieces, properties, and chance/community chest cards might be?

oops...yeah

I would also like ideas for what the pieces, properties and cards should look like

how about a Krispy Kreme on the board???

[Dan Petrovic]

One suggestion:

25's 06 bot as a piece.

I'll come up with more.

If it's art you're after, give me a shout out and I'll try my best to help with that.

As for board items, for the facilities you might want things like machining tools (aka Mill, Lathe, CNC shop, etc.)

[AndyB]

You gotta have Beatty's 05 bot. The cone of silence with just that.

[Dan Petrovic]

I like the 3-d game idea.

You could upload your team logo, and your sponsor's logo and do all sorts of fun stuff.

I'm liking this idea a whole lot better

[nparikh]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

I like the 3-d game idea.

You could upload your team logo, and your sponsor's logo and do all sorts of fun stuff.

I'm liking this idea a whole lot better

Not to be a spoiler or anything..but the First Video Game project was started a few years back and ran for a very long time. A lot of people put a lot of time into it..and where is it now? Well I haven't heard anything of it in months..

[KenWittlief]

this isnt a video game - its a strategy / game of chance. Much easier to create.

Im thinking, is there a way to make this.... whats the right term.... an open source game?

A handfull of people could create the basic framework, but then other people could add more options / actions/ variables / responses....

for example: it might start out with two possible outcomes for attending a regional, your team wins the finals, or loses... then other people could add more options into the data base: you are a finalist, you win best seed, rookie of the year... chaimans award.... that sort of thing

?

that way getting the basic game up and running would be much faster, and over the years the game would grow and develop as more and more people add onto it.

[Pat McCarthy]

Maybe have properties like, team's hometowns and whatnot.
To use a familiar example, "Hammond, IN" or "Beatty Machining" could be properties. That one would have to be like Park Place or Boardwalk.

EDIT: The classic 'Go' spot should be "Robot Inspection" so when you get a go to jail card, it says, "Go straight to Jail, do not pass inspection, do not collect $200!"

[Bill_Hancoc]

you should have like a fed ex truck and the start shud be kickoff...then for houses and hotels you shud have garages and machine shops
or for all the propertys you could do all the regionals...dont know if there is enough though but its a start

[Steve S.]

Originally Posted by Pat McCarthy

Maybe have properties like, team's hometowns and whatnot.
To use a familiar example, "Hammond, IN" or "Beatty Machining" could be properties. That one would have to be like Park Place or Boardwalk.

EDIT: The classic 'Go' spot should be "Robot Inspection" so when you get a go to jail card, it says, "Go straight to Jail, do not pass inspection, do not collect $200!"

How about the GO TO JAIL spot being DISQUALIFIED

[EDIT]
Software Currently Being Used

Game Maker- www.gamemaker.nl
GIMP- http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

[/EDIT]

[Barry Bonzack]

instead of Luxury tax, have a penalty flag. No railroads.... Save a porche, ride a Segway.... Take a ride on Dean's Helicopter.... North Dumpling Island should be boardwalk! Instead of money, we should use Dean's currency, the Dumpling. The value of one of the bills is equivalent to the value of pi. This game will be great, I'm looking forward to it.


Ha... chance card... get 2nd place at IRI talent show, collect 15 Dumplings. (sorry, DSKB, just second)

[EHaskins]

I might be able to help do something if you would use vb.net or c#. I think the idea is good, I can help with some of the graphics too. If you have any of the graphics done or if you have started any of the programing e-mail it to me at haskinseric@hotmail.com.

[Ryan Foley]

Use past game pieces/ field elements as the player pieces (ball, tetra, bin, floppie, inner tube, mobile goals, puck). Or, use some of the bots from Dave's game animations.

Properties:
use regional events, for all but the blue spaces. For those, use DaVinci (FVC championship field), and Einstein (FLL/ FRC championship field).

Railroads = Galileo, Newton, Archimedes, Curie.
Free Parking = NASA Grant (or something like that), or Chairmans Award.
Tax = Penalty
Jail = DQ, Disable, or Failed Inspection
Go = Kickoff