Some things I learned while doing #Landlords1904:
▶️ Some rules of the original game are vague, so I had to fill in the gaps. The worst offender is borrowing
▶️ The gameplay under Single Tax rules feels almost like a plan game; player choices are much more limited 🙁
▶️ The poorhouse is worse than jail. If you're not careful, you're stuck there for many rounds. I believe this was intentional to infuriate players, so the original might be an early example of rage game mechanics 😉
I finally managed to implement all game rules for my side-side project "Landlords 1904", an UNOFFICIAL recreation of The Landlord’s Game.
Version 0.1.0 features Single Tax, music, borrowing, trading, and other mechanics.
The game is fully playable, but it needs a lot of polishing until I’m truly happy.
Graphics and UI are ugly, but improvements are planned for version 1.0.0 (no promises tho).
I’ve worked in the past days on #Landlords1904 to make it somewhat more usable, implemented the first parts of the 'single tax' rule and other game modes and even implemented a simple computer player. It's SLIGHTLY less ugly.
An important part of the original game war clearly bidding (auctioining) and trading. Those are special because they allow other players to act when it's not their turn so I need to figure out a solution for when the game is played on only 1 computer by multiple people.
Hmm … Turns out I'm not really ready to continue with #Lazarr! right now. I tried, but more than a simple bugfix and a tiny level was not in it.
I'm more in a flow with #Landlords1904 atm, I guess I shouldn’t throw it away.
FYI: If I ever pick it up again, these are my "minimum" goals for me to call my small project 'Landlords 1904' acceptable:
▶️ Implement all the missing rules
▶️ Fix all crashes
▶️ Add computer player that is smarter than a brick
▶️ Make the graphics suck less
▶️ 1900's aesthetic (graphics- + audio-wise)
▶️ UI polish (animations, make it easier to see what happens, eye candy)
I will put my little side-side project "Landlords 1904" on hold for now. Two weeks are enough. That was quite an interesting experience; although some important features are still missing, I decided to stop before it escalates.
The game UI is clunky and FAR from finished or in a good state; so please don’t take this game too seriously. 😅
I have written down all my ideas, so I should be ready to pick it up later.
It is time to return to #Lazarr! again.
In the last two weeks, I made a computer adaptation of the historic #BoardGame The Landlord’s Game (which is #PublicDomain). It is the predecessor of #Monopoly.
It is clunky and ugly, but it almost works. This is the first time I used #LÖVE, and it shows. 😅
The game logic is surprisingly complex with many obscure features.
▶️ Link: https://codeberg.org/Wuzzy/Landlords_1904
(read the README otherwise you won't understand a thing)
#LÖVE #LÖVE2D #TheLandlordsGame #Landlords1904 #Monopoly #BoardGame #GameDev
Wuzzy