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🥚Marshy🥚: Hangman in minigames for smaller groups of players (2-4)

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Lexi: I think implementing hangman is easier said than done

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Lexi: It's easy for the word creator to "cheat" by making up nonsense (The word was "fjsjxicjlwwpepfl"!) If we limited it to only words from the English dictionary then that would suck for our foreign friends, limit inside jokes, and also make it easy for a guesser to cheat if they have the know-how to find and parse the game's internal dictionary I guess we could ignore all of that and just trust that the main people playing the game would be small groups of friends who wouldn't do that or wouldn't care

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🥚Marshy🥚: just make a list of words for them to pick from like pixeldrop

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NorthSeaSailing: I fail to see how limiting it to English poses much of an issue.

In fact, I would make the argument that that concern would turn out to be a non-issue, considering the rules we have around keeping English server-wide in 90%-95% of interactions (barring local chat in-game) would presuppose that everyone who gets on our server in the long-term is fluent enough in English to understand and to have fun with the game.

If we expect of the players to interact with the wider community in English in general, it probably will not be much of an issue in a game of having wide appeal to hangman. But that’s just my take.

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NorthSeaSailing: I do like this suggestion, personally. I’d love to play hangman once I get back on the server after my exams 😊

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NorthSeaSailing: So I put an upvote at the top

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Lexi: > barring local chat in-game The primary targeted audience of a game like hangman is a small group of friends, i.e. ones you'd see hanging out in local chat

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Lexi: You have pointed out exactly why it would not make sense to restrict the game to English words :p

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Lexi: Not to mention we'd have to manually add extra things like staff member (user)names, server worlds/gamemodes, etc

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Lexi: Also not to mention one of our finnish players upvoted my comment/agreed with me lol

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Lexi: Missed this comment- wouldn't this basically just make it an inferior pixel drop? Instead of having a visual hint and occasional clues for the letters you'd have nothing

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🥚Marshy🥚: exactly

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🥚Marshy🥚: or you could add a letter every time you missed the word

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🥚Marshy🥚: or"they"

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Lexi: Do you just want us to create the Wheel of Fortune

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Lexi: We don't have the budget for Pat Sajak unfortunately

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🥚Marshy🥚: but hangman thooo

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Lexi: WOF is hangman + gambling

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Lexi: Or, gambling with a side of hangman

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Lexi: If we use a predefined list of words analogous to pixel drop then there is little point in having a player dedicated to selecting a word

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Lexi: I think WOF could actually be fun

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🥚Marshy🥚: why not add both

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NorthSeaSailing: That still doesn’t address that the vast majority of server interactions are strictly to be in English. My point is more an Occam’s Razor-y type of assertion because of these rules:

if you are here, it is very likely you understand English enough to the point it is not a problem when playing on the server, let alone the game.

It just seems improbable to me that it presents as much of a problem as it is being assumed to be right now. I will say though, if we do have more notable languages present in the community besides English, can those not be included too? I am not a tech wizard, but if it’s adding a dictionary in English to set parameters, can there not be a dictionary pulled for Spanish, French, etc.? That could be something incredibly interested if it can be swung! 😄

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NorthSeaSailing: And I guess I can mention that I am a native Danish speaker alongside being a native English speaker as well, so I can also weigh in as someone who also has a vested interest to be included in a similar vein, and have in the past asked about the parameters of foreign languages on this server.

I’m just saying, out of all of the concerns one can have, I would imagine that second-guessing all or the vast vast majority of players’ English fluency to play and enjoy the game would probably be a minimal worry out of the many. But again, that’s just my take in having been around this community and not really feeling like anyone, even non-Anglosphere players, struggle with English.

But I’m glad to have someone who thinks about that at all, since that’s often hard to come by in general. So, I absolutely appreciate it ❤️

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Wakka: I don't see how hangman would be much different from pixeldrop, besides it being less visually stimulating/fun. WoF is an interesting idea however I have absolutely no idea how that'd work, and seems pretty complicated.