I have a few projects I have worked on already that merge game ideas into Drupal.
I created a Quest module for Fear Is the Enemy that allows for Superhero style role playing. You signup create a hero profile, and based on your answer to questions get assigned quests you have to complete. You submit evidence about how you completed your quest and instructors grade you on your performance. Currently this works in 4.7. I am working on upgrading to 5.1.
I am working on a new kind of Scavenger Hunt module for 5.1 on More Monkeys Than You. In a Divinci Code kind of fasion you have to find Easter eggs, hidden clues, and complete tasks on the site to earn monkeys, which you can then use to fight against other monkey armies.
I also am a big board game geek, and would love to build board game modules in drupal to allow people to embed popuplar games in their sites.
I also think some kind of way to embed a MAME like entity in Drupal (in essence an Arcade module) would be hot.
Who wants to work on this kind of thing? Any game ideas out there?
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Monkeys!
Those monkey puzzles are a bit challenging!
about the games
A friend of mine was writing a game for one part of the project we are putting together, he asked me if there was a possibility of getting a dice throwing mechanism on the site, is this possible that there is something out there that can let players throw a dice on a site?
Anyway if you can let me know what is available that would be great.
dice roller
it is possible, there are a number of javascript dice rollers out there, but I wouldn't go with those as they run client-side and can be altered for cheating. The best way I can see to do it would be with a server-side function that generated a random roll for the selected "die type". The roll/result could then be displayed with a page refresh or some ajax code. You'd want the result to be logged for display to other players as well.
The only thing I could find pre-existing in the drupal-verse was a post from over a year ago: http://drupal.org/node/38540
For something to play around with, check out: http://invisiblecastle.com/
interested
Sounds like some interesting ideas. The Scavenger Hunt module sounds like it would be very affricative to microsite developers looking for ways to engage their audience.
I think that building a Drupal text adventures engine could be fun; and a MUD-style engine could be extended off of that... but at the same time I'm never a fan of rebuilding the wheel and there are number of well developed MUD engines already. Although there's no AJAX MUD engines that I know of, and Drupal would be a good back-end for it... But it seems that you were possibly thinking more of a campaign management engine from the poll.
In any case, I'm interested and willing to help brainstorm for now and help code once it gets to that.