CyberdeckSG
This is the Cyberdeck Web Game wiki page, write down ideas on the web game The web game will be developed using Rubyonrails or Perl, will use httpcommunication (xml encrypted) to communicate with the [[CyberdeckOG]] client to play a match The rest will be played on the web interface the is a pdf draft for ideas about the Webgame, follow the ideas Cyberdeck Web Game Concept Version 0.2 Kigali, 20/02/08 by Robert J. Newmark, Sundog, Yonderboy The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License Summary 1 Introduction.....................................................................................................................................4 2 The Background..............................................................................................................................4 3 The Web Game................................................................................................................................4 4 The MMORPG................................................................................................................................5 5 Rules................................................................................................................................................5 5.1 The Users and RPG..................................................................................................................5 5.1.1 Reputation and Factions...................................................................................................6 5.2 The 2 worlds: real world...........................................................................................................7 5.2.1 Map................................................................................................................................7 5.2.2 Shop...............................................................................................................................7 5.2.3 Market............................................................................................................................7 5.2.4 Job rent...........................................................................................................................8 5.2.5 Bar..................................................................................................................................8 5.2.6 Game Centre...................................................................................................................8 5.2.7 Houses............................................................................................................................8 5.2.8 Public Enter.....................................................................................................................8 5.2.9 Train Station....................................................................................................................8 5.3 The 2 worlds: cyberspace........................................................................................................8 5.3.1 Map................................................................................................................................8 5.3.2 Shop...............................................................................................................................9 5.3.3 Market............................................................................................................................9 5.3.4 Job rent...........................................................................................................................9 5.3.5 Bar..................................................................................................................................9 5.3.6 Game Centre...................................................................................................................9 5.3.7 Houses............................................................................................................................9 5.3.8 Public Enter.....................................................................................................................9 5.3.9 Train Station..................................................................................................................10 5.4 Home sweet Home.................................................................................................................10 5.4.1 Research.......................................................................................................................10 5.4.1.1 Cards......................................................................................................................10 5.4.1.2 Decks.....................................................................................................................10 5.4.1.3 Skills......................................................................................................................10 5.4.1.4 Technology tree.....................................................................................................10 5.4.2 Defence........................................................................................................................10 5.4.3 Furnitures.....................................................................................................................11 5.4.4 Decks............................................................................................................................11 5.5 Attacks and Defence..............................................................................................................11 5.5.1 Defending buildings......................................................................................................11 5.5.2 Attacking buildings.......................................................................................................11 5.5.3 Play a Game..................................................................................................................12 5.6 Informations..........................................................................................................................12 The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 5.7 Newspapers.......................................................................................................................12 5.8 Alliances, Groups and Companies..........................................................................................12 5.9 Events, works, missions and temporary nodes.......................................................................13 5.10 Communication....................................................................................................................14 5.10.1 Mail............................................................................................................................14 5.10.2 IM...............................................................................................................................14 5.10.3 Forum..........................................................................................................................14 5.10.4 Cyberdeck Shop..........................................................................................................14 The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 1 Introduction This is a concept idea, with Cyberdeck CCG (collectible card game) rules and Cyberdeck OG (Online Game, the ruby client), this is the third (and fourth) part of the Cyberdeck community project. The web game will permit people likes play Cyberdeck, to live in the Cyberdeck world, interact with other players and worlds. This is a prelude for the future MMORPG, and can add to the MMORPG the possibility to continue to play even if you are out of your home or country. 2 The Background The background of Cyberdeck WG (Web Game) is the same of Cyberdeck CCG, but here has been enriched with places, companies, people, and last but not least other people, the history of cyberdeck world will be written by users. The world is cyberpunk world, deeply inspired by W. Gibson and M. Sterling novels, and all the Cyberpunk RPG we played (Cyberpunk 2020, GURPS Cyberpunk, Real World Cyberpunk). A world full of multinational company that gain the power, the Nation concept has changed, not more democracies but oligopolies owned by the multinational companies, the cyberspace has grown and something in the net changed. In this situation 4 main faction are emerging, The Police, that is the dirty hand of law, a law written by states nobody care. Police move as they want, using public money to protect business and normal people. The Business, if you are not on your own, you are in the business. All the multinational companies, big and medium companies rent people service to continue their stairs to the total control. The Crime faction, Yakuza, Mafia, Organized Crime, all together to take control of the cities, stop police intervention and free market. And least but not last the Underground faction, thousands groups of free people, that want to stop the multinational companies rise up, that avoid power to people and give to inhuman entities. To protect their software, the companies produced a Deck, a neural connection to the network. And the software is not more on bits, but hardcoded inside chips where is not possible to copy over or duplicate. The chips are really small, and are called “cards” for their shape. The information has became the money of the world, and more information you have, more power you hold. Using the decks and the cards you need to gain informations, respect, or money, or political power, or anything you want. Use your avatar to “live” in the next future. 3 The Web Game The web game is structured in order to permit users to play in a Rpg (role playing game). Differently from other WG, the scope is “live” in the world, not dominate, but change. The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License The are 2 world, the real world, where is possible to travel and interact, and the Cyberspace world, where you can do the same things, but faster and in a funnier way. You can become one of the best netrunner in the world, or open a bar, or control group of people, or change something with alliances creation, or becoming a great information dealer and seeker, or become a researched card seller, or become one of the best scientist around the planet. It's on your own. 4 The MMORPG The MMORPG will arrive, it's the last step in Cyberdeck world creation. A 3D client will permit to interact with the Cyberdeck world more deeply and directly. But the web game will remain forever, in order to permit to continue to play also away from your machine. 5 Rules Next you can read some rules of the WG. Just some ideas to understand what will be your favourite game. Many things can be changed and a LOT will be added (to add more RPG experience). 5.1 The Users and RPG The User creation is really important in a web game that would become an RPG. A lot of information will be gathered, skills and other things, here we begin a little list: Description: Name Username Country City Birthdate Studies Work Background Faction (crime/business/underground/police) Base Skills: The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License Intelligence (help in software and contacts and other) Constitution (help in fighting and shooting and other) Agility (help in shooting and hardware and other) Charisma (help in contact and Sprawl and other) Life (Life point in real life) Brain (Life point in cyberspace) Underground/Business Reputation Crime/Police Reputation (the reputation help in relation and mission with the faction) Skills: Drug resistance Software Hardware Contacts Sprawl survive Shooting Fighting Netrunning Management 5.1.1 Reputation and Factions In the world exists 4 main factions. They gathered all the power on the planet, they collaborate each other and fight each other. The Crime faction is composed by all the organized forms of crime of the XX century. Mafia, Yakuza, Japanese mafia, Marseille, Islamic crime, Christian crime and all forms of little or medium organized crime talks more in those years, and want to control all the business that can. In opposite to the Crime there is the Police factions, what rests of all state intelligences, municipal polices, and security agencies. They are paid from state or business to stop the crime power, using the underground group also fro their plans. Then we have the Business faction, all multinational and national, and medium and small companies have all one goal in their existence, GREED. Greed means money, that means power. Using both crime and police to let the state role only apart from REAL power, have warned only by normal, and poor people, that have anyway access to technology and wants to let the people, cities free from anybody control, right state, and ethic companies. But no ethic can be used in The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License order to fight that match. Those people and group form the Underground Faction, fighting against the market, working for police and crime. Any person usually interact with more than one faction, but the more a faction is your mother, the more help you have from other and free access to a lot of facilities. But, there is a but, the more you are friendly with a faction, the more the opposite faction will fight you, and you have problem to access some services. Choose well which road to ride, will change your life. Here is where the reputation works. Faction mission, alliance or group or company joining, any action you do in the world, make a faction closer or farer. Add reputation in your faction (loosing in opposite faction) means help and problem, but if you rest in the middle, no help and no access to some stuff. Cities can be under the control of a specific faction, if the majority of the public places are controlled by a faction. A city under faction control, can sell stuff that can't be sold in other places. The same for the research. Any faction action will be speeded up in a controlled faction city. 5.2 The 2 worlds: real world The real world is our world, many cities (at least 20) are signed on the map and the user can interact with them. Inside a city there are many places to interact with (a list with explanation follow). To travel between real world cities a train are used. Each city has one Train Station and a lot of parking places. Here you can buy cards, houses, make contacts, play cyberdeck, connect to internet, eat something special. Every place in the real world is near to some faction, if you are not friend of that faction, you can't access to that place. 5.2.1 Map The map is where you can move between places. There is a map of the World (signing cities, and available only inside Train stations) and a map of the City. On the map are signed all the places you know (you have to explore sectors of the cities in order to know places, or you need that someone gives you pieces of map for information). Every City has many or few of different place (bar, banks, Game centre) but only one market and only one train station. 5.2.2 Shop Shop can sell different things, Deck shop, Card Shop, Furnitures Shop, Information Shop, Drugs shop (skills can be temporarly changed using drugs). 5.2.3 Market The market is the place where you can sell or buy informations, cards, furnitures. The system is auction based. Anyone can place something to sell. A Control system check cheating. The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 5.2.4 Job rent In Job rent you can find a work (to earn some money) where your skills are requested, here some mission can be also submitted by users in order to accomplish in some work or mission. 5.2.5 Bar What you can do in a bar? Drink, meet people, make contact, exchange anything, connect to internet (in protected mode, no attack are be allowed). 5.2.6 Game Centre Here you can come with your deck and fight with other people or participate in tournament organised sometime. 5.2.7 Houses In each city there are a number of house in rent, you can rent any number of houses you want, you can put an house in sub-rental for short period. In your house you can do anything written in House chapter. 5.2.8 Public Enter Those are something like a public phone site. From here you can enter in cyberspace but only in protected mode. No attack are allowed but someone can attack you meanwhile you are connected. Is the cheapest way to connect in a city. 5.2.9 Train Station From here you can access World Map to move between cities. Some time is needed to move, and some money too. 5.3 The 2 worlds: cyberspace The cyberspace is the other face of the world, anything (or most of) exist in real world exist also in cyberspace, and more more than that. Here you can visit places (shop, bar, game center) as in real life, but you can also attack a place, depending on the strength of the defence, and the ante putted in defence (to defend a place you have to decide the ante, and then you can defend with a complex network based on the ante value). The ante can be in information (data) or in cards. 5.3.1 Map The cyberspace map is different from the cities maps. There are no limit in distance, a place can The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License be near another even if in real world are really far. The Cyberspace is more slow to explore, in fact where an hour is needed for a sector of a citie, a day is needed for a sector of cyberspace. But you can know the address of a place in order to reach it instantly. Address can be gathered in bar, speaking with other players, reading the news, collecting informations from your attacks. The cyberspace can be scanned, in order to know piece of map, entry point, missions, new facilities and companies. You can scan in 2 way, exhaustive scan, that reveal every place in the portion, that means private entrance and missions and so on. Otherwise the Fast Scan can be accomplished, only public places are showed with a fast scan, a fast scan is 10 times faster than exhaustive scan. Every place in the Cyberspace has a faction, if you want to enter, you must have a bit of reputation in that. If you want to attack otherwise, you can't if is of your faction. Choose well your target. 5.3.2 Shop The same as real life one, but usually sell different things with higher price and is slower to have goods. (15% of shipping cost) 5.3.3 Market The same as real life one, but usually sell at higher price and is slower to have goods (10% of shipping) 5.3.4 Job rent The same as real life one, but usually sell different works (only netrunner) 5.3.5 Bar The same as real life one, but you can't drink 5.3.6 Game Centre The same as real life one. 5.3.7 Houses You can attack an house of meet someone if you have the connection password. An house can be a private house or also a company site. 5.3.8 Public Enter You can attack a guy that is connected to the public enter in real life. The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 5.3.9 Train Station You can check prices and time and attack it. 5.4 Home sweet Home That's your home, you can arrange it in any way you want. When you begin you have 1 home in the city you choose to start from. But you have to pay the loan in order to rest inside. No fees to connect are needed. You can store here everything you want (at your own risk). 5.4.1 Research In home you can research. Some research needs a furniture, some other only your time. You can research cards, decks or skills. The time needed by research pass only when you are at home (some furnitures permit to leave something at home working for you). The speed of research you do is rose up if you have a good reputation in the research faction, otherwise can be very very slow, even with very expensive furnitures. 5.4.1.1 Cards You can research in any card skill... once you know enough on the skills needed by a card, you are able to produce it by yourself (REALLY slowly). To produce you need a furniture. 5.4.1.2 Decks You can research on your deck improvement and sell info to produce little parts. 5.4.1.3 Skills You can study ANY skills. 5.4.1.4 Technology tree Will follow all the technology tree. 5.4.2 Defence Here you can set up the defence of your home/company. You have to decide an Ante (in information or cards), once you decided that you have a number of point to use in setting up the defence network. Highest price cards needs more point. The AI level can be choosen spending points. The network can be fixed or has some kind of security controller that play cards in order to defend it. The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 5.4.3 Furnitures The furnitures are needed for a lot of things, research, produce, improve defence or improve quality of life. 5.4.4 Decks The deck is used to connect to the cyberspace. You start with a basic deck (not less than 60 cards) with no bonus. Other deck can be buy or improvement can be done on your. 5.5 Attacks and Defence What is a Game without the possibility to attack or defend a place. The attacks can be done in real life (with a statistical support with different range of difficulty and damage) or (more often) in cyberspace. Connect, put an address and Attack. Any place has an ante, you have to put the same value ante too in order to attack, if you gain, you win the ante, otherwise you loose. You can attack a place with someone connected or not. If someone is connected to the place (it has 30 second to decide if defending or leave the network do the job) you fight against another person with cyberdeck rules, otherwise you fight against a pre-ordered network. 5.5.1 Defending buildings Buildings can be defended using cards and research and furnitures. Usually to defend a building you need to set up a network, using Cyberdeck CCG rules and cards. In order to set up network you can use only nodes, chip, AI and set up a little deck (10 cards) to play smartcard and cracker at needs (using some trigger, as “if this node is attacked play that smart”) with a bit of logical approach, using an easy interface. The number and value of cards you can set in defence depend from the Ante and number of turns needed to break the network, the more turn you give, more point you have to spend in cards. The Ante is some data (informations) and cards you put in your network (under some node) that you can loose if the attacker gain the node, the node must be reachable from the frontend. The number of level of your network cost point, each card cost a 25% of point in the backend, 50% in the backoffice, 75% behind, 125% , 200%, 325% and so on, using a fibonacci series. In the mini deck the cards costs all the same of the last level, so be carefull when you try to put your ante too far. 5.5.2 Attacking buildings Attacking a building mean attacking a network, when you attack you have to wait 2 minutes in order to permit the defending player to defend the building. If your building is attacked you will have a popup on the interface, then if you are near a connectible place (any house, any public enter) you can choose a deck and defend the place attacked (you can also know some info about your enemy and some about his deck). Otherwise the attacker will fight against the network The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 5.5.3 Play a Game Playing a game in cyberdeck means play with Cyberdeck OG (Online Game), refer to Cyberdeck CCG for rules and http://www.cyberdeckgame.net/ to download the system independent ruby interface. 5.6 Informations Informations are the most valuable thing in the Cyberdeck world, and permit to earn lot of money. Informations are piece of text, images, stats, log. Anything you do in CyberdeckWG is stored in a log (and the same for all the players). From this log, informations are generated, using the Infop2p furniture (a fax for the house, that permit to generate other user and game information putting in the system yours). Inside information can be stored, addresses of places attacked, info about deck, places seen and so on... any piece has a code, any piece can be really useful, or useless for you, but someone can need it. Any move you do, any word you send to other is stored in the network, inside some shop, some private house or company, or can be the treasure of a mission. And definitely can be useful for someone. 5.7 Newspapers A newspaper is written every day, with site news, some important happening, thing sended from users, pieces of Information. Everybody can receive newspaper of a city, paying a little fee. 5.8 Alliances, Groups and Companies CyberdeckWG is a social game, that means that is very important gather forces is a winning choice. In CyberdeckWG there are 3 way to connect other people. Alliances, that is the easiest way to form a group of people. Alliances are public, anybody can contact, know where is the alliance (each Alliance Group and Companies have at least 1 main site, in real life and in cyberspace). Anybody can create an alliances, but 3 people needs to accept the terms before an alliance is definitely created. The terms of an alliance are: ● The alliance name ● Main city (the sites is given automatically) ● Type (open- anybody can join, democratic- the majority of the group have to approve, monarchic the chief decide) ● Chief (the alliance chief) ● PR (Public Relation, whom manage contacts, messages and all communication) ● Secretary (filter on the chief, it manage also polls and requests for joining) ● Faction (the alliance reputation will begin with a 65% in the faction you choose and 50% in the other, obviously it have 35% in the opposite faction and 50% in the last one ) The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License Alliances can't have Deposits. The Group is the strongest underground way to gather forces. A group is like an alliances, but, it's not public, no house is donated by the council, the house of one the user must be used in order to become the group cave. In the group cave can be placed Cave Furnitures like: Card Deposit (deposit card in order to permit other to take, for exchange, and to defend the cave) Data Deposit (deposit data in order to permit other players to read and complete a puzzle of messages) Money Deposit (deposit money in order to buy furnitures, datas, cards) Research Server (permit to share research facilities between players) Production Facilities (permit to gather information using the data deposit data to speed up) Other things When the group is created once 8 players accept the status, Name of the group, cave, chief. No democratic neither monarchic neither free system. 8 people decide who is the chief, and to change the name of the chief all but one vote are needed. The companies are essentially the last stage of the alliances. Once 1000 persons accept the companies statute a company is created. If an alliance (not groups) join the companies, the number of persons in the alliance a count each. A company is an alliance that can open shops, banks, protection agencies. The companies needs only a name and 10.000.000kr (10.000 each person at least) as initial capital. After that it can gather money from the owners and rent houses to become Bar, Bank, Shops, Job rental, security agencies and so on. 5.9 Events, works, missions and temporary nodes Time by time, there are events that the server will generate in order to permit people to interact with the world, those events can be of 4 types: Events (events that affect all the world or a particular zone, can be of any type, natural disaster, economic happening, ANY type) Works (can be found in job rental shops, in bar and other places, are long term jobs, at least 4 weeks, and can be used to gain some easy money, or take a bit of reputation) Missions (can be found in bar and other places, are some sort of “action” that you have to do in order to gain the mission, are hard to find, but you can earn lots of money and reputation, can be of attack, defence, around the world or in your house) Temporary Nodes (some times temporary nodes appear in the cyberspace, are normal people connection, but can hide something really useful. Scan really well the net, or use the information you get to discover those magical place full of what you can't imagine.) The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License 5.10 Communication That's the community site section, here there are all the usual instruments needed by a community. 5.10.1 Mail Messages in the game, exchange mail within users. 5.10.2 IM Instant messaging is usefull to contact a player (friend) when he is online. 5.10.3 Forum A forum management is needed. 5.10.4 Cyberdeck Shop You want to buy cards? Or merchandising? The Authors Pierluigi Maori aka Newmark and Francesco Arcarese aka Sundog and Giuliano Fidanza aka Yonderboy release this web game concept under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Italy License ideas as follow