This is just a mockup, not an actual playable game (yet.) A sketch I made in Inkscape, converted from SVG to wifight description, and displayed in the client.

Normally I tend to not show off what I'm working on until it's almost done. I can't help it: I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I just want it to be as awesome as possible when you do see it.

But I thought, why not try developing this one in public, and let the world tell me what it thinks as we go. Maybe it will be fun.

So, Dungeon.

Thats's a stats bar on the right. It seems to be a standard feature for all RPGs so I'm sticking with it. Then maybe your inventory appears in the box below the stats.

On the left you have the dungeon view. You would see the room you're in, and a little bit of the rooms around you (that you have been to.) Your avatar/little dude would appear in the center of the room and the various objects/monsters/etc in that room would also appear surrounding the player. That's what the green blob and squiggly line (I mean, a scary snake!) represent.

Each level will be a 2d grid of rooms. The levels will be procedurally generated, so it will be a different layout each time. That's gonna be fun to code! And fun to play I hope.

A while back I wrote a little MUD-like rooms-n-objects layer (a real simple one, just for fun. Lua is incredibly well suited for it.) so now I'm building on top of that. That's what's generating those green buttons. I'm not 100% sure how I'm going to go from a MUDlike freeform node system to a 2d grid layout yet, but I can't wait to find out.

The gray boxes represent some kind of UI (to be determined) to perform various actions, like, say, search, casting spells, etc.

So that's the sketch so far. What do you think?

Reversi is a game played on an 8x8 board. Four pieces are placed onto the center 4 squares before play begins. Players take turns placing pieces of their color (white or black, black goes first) onto empty spaces on the board. The position must have at least one or more contiguous lines of the opponent's pieces between it and another one of the player's pieces. After placing the piece, the trapped opponent's pieces color changes to the player's color. Hard to explain, but easy to learn, especially because only legal moves are selectable in wifight Reversi.

You can read (and write!) about Reversi on the wifight wiki, and also spectate Reversi games on wifight.

You do not need to update your client to play Reversi on wifight. It will just magically show up in your game select screen the next time you log in.

Chess(NoAI) is a modification to Chess. It can only be played by human players, not AI players. Play proceeds normally, except that before every turn, the AI (chessbot level) chooses a move. This move becomes unplayable, and is greyed out on the board. If there is only one move available then it will not be greyed out.

You can read more about Noai on the wifight wiki, and also spectate Noai games on wifight.

There is no client upgrade required to play Chess(NoAI). Look for it in your Select Game screen.

wifight: new games on the horizon
First, we have Chess(NoAI). Chess(NoAI) is a modification to Chess. It can only be played by human players, not AI players. Play proceeds normally, except that before every turn, the AI (chessbot level) chooses a move. This move becomes unplayable, and is greyed out on the board. If there is only one move available then it will not be greyed out.

What I like about this variation is that it adds a bit of unpredictability. You can't be sure exactly what move chessbot will pick, but you can often guess. And it just might be the move you really wanted to make! So you have to get a bit creative and improvise a bit more. And you can try to take advantage, too. For example, you can often place a piece where you normally never would, since it would just be taken immediately...

Chess(NoAI) is almost ready to release. I'll probably make it go live this week. You won't need to upgrade your client. It will just magically show up in your Select Game screen.

Nextly, I started working on Reversi. Here's a work-in-progress screenshot:

Get wifight.prc 0.31 and you too can go nuts with new games. It's the best.

CTIA
Team wifight (aka me and my buddies Josh and Dan) will be roaming the floors of CTIA on Wednesday the 10th (tomorrow!) We hope to see lots of neat gadgets and maybe show off wifight to anyone who seems even vaguely interested. I'm also hoping to score some free t-shirts, but I've never been to CTIA so I dunno if it will be like that. I do like free t-shirts, heh.

Get it at the bmem page. It's free and open-source, and the exe is only 22k!

Who Me. I did it.
What Debris Visual Art, build #47
When Right now!
Why Because it's fun.
How Just download it and run the installer. You will be tripping mighty balls in no time.

also: wifight client 0.29 out, 0.30 coming along
Yep, wifight's client 0.29 was released a little while back, with lots of new features:

• player list! with little Online indicator even
• game browser remembers which game you most recently tapped on and returns you there
• game browser remembers which game you most recently selected on refresh and keeps it visible
• added 'Browse Games Archive' to gamescreen menu
• fixed bug where newgame form could pop up over itself after game creation error
• made draw offers cause game to show New and sort to top like a regular new turn
• update progress screen shows titles of games being updated
• tweaked games archive button locations (tightened up spacing)
• added Chat button to the create login successful "where to?" popup
• added Browse Games Archive/Player Roster menu items to Chatscreen
• added About wifight option to chat screen menu
• made New Game screen remember last used opponent name
• changed colors for New and Your Turn indicators
• Quit options now named Resign once grace period (currently 3 turns) ends
• gamescreen disables sleep mode during turn playback
• fixed small memory leak in game browser
• updated help files
• renamed "Help: topic" menu items to "User Guide: topic"
• added Chess, Checkers, and Boxes user guide pages (look in game screen menu)
• fixed bug re deleting a game then going to it with the Recent button
• other misc bug fixes

Here's a shup of the table I just made in the handy-dandy Wifight User Guide:

In other news, someone finally beat supachessbot! Good job, ljj8503.