Mini Games!

[Teagan]

So theres a lot to do in Pumpkin Online, thats for sure! But imagine you're crops are growing or maybe none of you're friends are online!
A great way to earn some extra money, make new friends and earn cool achievements would be to play Mini Games with other players!
(The system could work a lot like Toon Town, 4/6 players can go on to a "Trolley" and they play a game together.)
I know for sure its a lot of coding and probably wouldn't make it until Pumpkin Online is out of beta but hear me out!

There could be lots of fun games, I came up with a few for examples!
(LUCK) Fishing Frenzy/Fortune Fishing: Players take turns picking one of four fishing lines hoping to catch a fish, if they do they'll be moving on! Players who don't catch a fish are disqualified! The game continues until there is one player remaining.

(SKILL/LUCK) Hide and Seek!: A chicken runs off across the map! Players race to find the chicken behind various plants and objects. The first player to find the chicken wins!

(SKILL) Racing Rivalry: Players race across the track and dodge hurdles and other objects to cross the finish line first.
(OPTIONAL: Players bring their own animals to race!)

(TEAMWORK)Tug O' War: Players are divided in to 2 teams. The team with the players that tug the rope the most wins!
(Not to mention they tug the other team in to a pile of mud! YUCK.)


I'll add some more game ideas later!
What do you think? Do you have any fun ideas? O:

[CalliopeSoul]

Those are fun ideas!

[mrs saturn]

They sound fun! Though I think it's important to make sure they're not all luck-based (though a few of them can be, of course). For example, the racing one could also have the players themselves racing, steering to avoid obstacles, if you want some more action. Betting is mostly fun if there's a cash reward. Then again, maybe you could get some money for winning these? Not so much that it works as a long-term source of income, but as a little bonus. Or it have a token/medals system, like the tours in Animal Crossing: New Leaf? Like you win tokens instead of money, but the tokens can be exchanged for exclusive prizes.

I know of a game I played as a kid, though I don't know what it might be called in English. It starts like hide-and-seek, but the seeker starts at a specific thing (like a tree for example) that the hiders have to reach. So they start out hiding, but they can't win unless they reach the tree without getting found and caught by the seeker. The seeker should go looking for the others so they can be caught, but also has to keep an eye out so nobody rushes at the tree when they're not looking. There are some ways to exploit this to make it unbalanced (like everyone charging towards the tree all at once, or the seeker never leaving the tree) but if they can be resolved this could be really fun.

[Teagan]

Haha I think a small reward in money would be very cool! Just enough to buy yourself that new item you've been eyeballing, after a couple Mini Games though!

That sounds like Hide and Seek Tag with a base! Or at least thats what we called it when me and my friends played it! There are lots of variations of Hide and Seek actually! I'm not sure which one would be best but I'd love to hear everyones ideas.

[misterkoala]

That sounds awesome!! ;u;

[TheIronGod]

Mini games are great. Fable and Fable II had some great ones. Personally, I always see Chess boards offered as decorative items in games but you can never sit down and play them. I wanna be able to use the Chess board! Might as well throw Checkers in there, too.

[Zhize]

Yes! Mini games would be a great addition. I'm pretty sure the community can come up with a bunch of ideas. The mini games would help a lot to keep the game fresh and give the players more stuff to do.
It'll be a great idea for when the game is out of beta, the developers can release updates containing packages of mini games. This would do a lot to keep the game fun, as most MMOs have a problem of going stale after awhile.

[missfadingobsession]

Even an NPC who has a constant stream of scavenger quests if you want to activate them for something to do?

Eg. "You want to help me? Go find me 20 white feathers"
*white feather items visible only to you generate across the surrounding area for you to find/the items are drops for interacting with an environment item like weeding a plant or grooming an animal*

Any quest rewards would have to be very small/insignificant to discourage users just grinding that aspect of the game obviously, as that's not what pumpkin is about

[Sakura02]

I like this is also a good idea! True though you don't want to have too many luck based games, the most satisfying games I feel are those that involve skill so you know you won based on your skill and intellect not completely random. We will keep those in mind I like those idea!

[Raltz]

This is just a thought but i was playing Animal Crossing New Leaf recently and i remembered that on Saturday Nights KK Slider would come into the club and play acoustic guitar and it was this whole thing where you and all your friends would want to go to the club on this night because it was sort of like a weekly special event. Well what I'm thinking is that for a mini game on Saturday a specific day (Like Saturday or Sunday maybe) in the bar there could be a Karaoke night! And i would imagine that it would be something like when your character sings it would just be some sort of Rhythm mini game. And you could either have this just for fun, just a place for you and your friends to hang out or at the end of the night whoever scored the best for the night would like get a free drink or a cash reward of some kind!