Oil Deposit Idea
Hi! I'm new to Hedgewars and started playing after I looked for Worms style games online. I really enjoy this game especially because it is still in development and the community helps make it.
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Overview:
While playing with some friends I had a random idea. Small oil deposits hidden within the map (ability to toggle percent chance of existing, average size, chance to explode when receiving impact).
Example:
You fire a drill upward to get the guy just above you. Your drill goes through the ground like normal but then something strange happens. Oil starts gushing out (I don't expect actual constant particles). Your drill shot kabooms on target sending the guy you were shooting at flying, but now there are 2 oil spouts. One at the point of entry and one at the point of exit (last for a certain amount of turns).
They may be ignited and explode by a percent controlled chance due to the drill exploding.
If it explodes, it takes out a good bit of land (near the entry or exit due to that making more sense). If not, there is still a chance to ignite it during further turns.
After a few turns the oil runs out and it goes away.
Maybe the oil could even cause a small slick on the ground for a few turns too XD.
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I hope this didn't seem too random and makes sense. I personally think it would be fun, though I think it would be a bit complex to program.
I made a tiny example pic:
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Your idea seems very original to me and I can see some funny situations it could produce.
Of course it's hard to predict if and when that could be taken into the game, especially these days (we're very busy working on new weapons and interfaces and on optimizing code to run faster), but maybe somebody, who has some spare time and can code, likes your idea good enough to start coding on it (maybe even yourself ^_^).
Well, I thought I'd post here so you know that we developers read your post and welcome you in our community, we appreciate your interest in hedgewars and your wish to creatively participate in the process of making it better
We/I might get back to you on this, as soon as there's some spare time to be spend again ^^
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Thank you very much for your reply! I'm glad that you think it's interesting. For fun I think I'll try to make a mock up of what it might look like in game. Maybe it'll give some inspiration.
That's a cool idea Lenna!
I would make it, but i don't know how to do stuff like that at the moment with Hedgewars. I think I'll try editing the source code
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Sounds good Cairo. I want to DL the source to look at it too. *wonders what Cairo will do/ make*
If this was done, not only the oil idea but a lot of other things with liquids could be done.
This idea is great
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Great idea. Also the ability to steer the drill to some degree (like the blowtorch)
but it must burn or xplode in the face of the other WITHOUT DAMGEING THE TRRAIN
Sound nice and Fun!
I think, damaging terrain woul make much more sense, but it's also a bit too powerful.