Stéphan KochenYou can now challenge someone to game of #chess over toots! https://castling.club/ 💪
It's actually a standalone server in the #fediverse, implementing #activitypub all by itself. 😃
Mx Autumn 
@kosinus just saw this on lobste.rs. It's an incredible idea!
I was thinking today that I wanted to make something interactive on the #fediverse and its serendipitous that I stumbled upon this!
@carbontwelve Thanks, and that's awesome! Do it, do it, do it! Do you need ideas? 😉
@kosinus haha ideas would be nice. I usually find the ones I come up with have already been implemented.
@carbontwelve The ideas I’ve seen mentioned are mostly games.
Someone mentioned Go (the board game), but probably any 1v1 turn-based strategy can work the same way. (Reversi, uhm, others? 😛)
More than 2p would be a step up and bring some more challenges. Monopoly?
Really cool, but vague idea is doing RPG stuff: https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/100634276218935422
@carbontwelve
Mind that castling.club is a federated server, but bots can also be simple clients. If the interaction is what you care about, that’s probably easier! The federation stuff was just part of my personal goals.
Mind that castling.club is a federated server, but bots can also be simple clients. If the interaction is what you care about, that’s probably easier! The federation stuff was just part of my personal goals.
@kosinus I have just day-dreamed about writing a MMO-esk table top simulation as a federated server. It would be cool but also a massive project.
This is something that I would like to dip my toes into so I think I will begin by doing a checkers version of your chess example as a way of getting my head around how things work and then go from there.
@kosinus you know what would be cool, a federated MMO table top game... with each server being a realm that others can visit/trade/war with...
@carbontwelve That sounds tricky, because each server might have different versions / code, thus different rules? The only systems I know of that tackle that issue are *gasp* blockchains. 😄