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about 2 years ago - /u/JagexLuma - Direct link

Originally posted by Swordbreaker925

Taking something nobody plays and moving it somewhere else doesn’t address the reason why nobody plays it.

People not playing minigames isn’t an issue of design, it’s an issue of culture. In the early 2000’s people treated games like World of Warcraft and Runescape as online adventures full of mystery and wonder. Now that wikis are as robust as they are, the culture has changed and most players look at MMOs with only the end goal in mind and how to most quickly reach it. They look for efficiency now, not wonder and adventure.

Doesn’t matter where they move these dice games or what rewards they offer, unless it’s a meta method for advancement, nobody will play it.

Also, it would thematically make more sense to put these games in the taverns, not the GE.

can't say i disagree with you unfortunately, but i think it is nice to have that option for people even if the majority won't be using it

also, i put them in a bunch of taverns and the GE :)

about 2 years ago - /u/JagexLuma - Direct link

Originally posted by RafaSheep

I was kinda hoping it could become one of those right-click player options such as Duel.

you're not the only one! unfortunately implementing it to work that way would take a bunch more work than can likely be done in a game jam (more technically complex, would have to rewrite a bunch of the existing stuff, and likely prone to a lot more bugs). never say never though

about 2 years ago - /u/JagexLuma - Direct link

Originally posted by skumfukrock

Can we have we have a table in wars pretty please? would be a perfect place to mess around with this when you're waiting on people

i did actually look at wars when placing them, but i couldn't find a suitable place & the outdated models looked very out of place

if this was to make it into the game, i'm sure an environment artist could make it happen :)

about 2 years ago - /u/JagexLuma - Direct link

Originally posted by JoshOliday

Not that I even know the amount of work I'm sure it would take, but I'd be interested in seeing Chess added to this somehow... I haven't craved playing any of the existing games against clanmates, but I have wanted to try my hand at Chess against one or two of them...

EDIT: Also, apparently, Mod Tomb worked on this very project back in the 2017 GameJam. Maybe the work is still sitting around somewhere. Not sure if they are still at Jagex or on RuneScape at all?

https://runescape.wiki/w/Game_Jam_(2017))

tomb is indeed still working on runescape - he actually talked to me the other day about this project :) he did start work on chess, but AFAIK it was not finished (and I'm not sure what he did make is even accessible any more as it was so long ago)