Talking about Dlc - well, how about cheskers?

[Steppenzebra]

We all know that tnt's player base is a bit small these days. It still works but 2vs2 lobby time can be quite boring. NoRepro once said there was tons of stuff to do .... but, well ... uhm ... you probably know, what I'm talking about. Adding a chat to the lobby would help to pass the waiting time but chances are it won't happen.

So here is my idea:
add a little mini game, that you can play in the lobby. Before you discard this idea right away, please hear me out. When I first got into SP and found the swine's "cheskers" board, I thought: wow, that could be some nice Easter egg. There even is this "cheskers tournament board" with Zeno and Deadbones (nice little detail btw!) at Bellafide's bar. So why not implement this? In SP (at cheskers board and other locations that might follow) as well as in the lobby you should be able to play a little game of cheskers in some pop-up window (you still want to see what's up in the lobby). It should be played against the AI (different levels of difficulty would be great). You could even add "real" cheskers score board somewhere in SP as a further gimmick! It's a perfect fit and it would add to the overall impression that tooth and tail puts so much love into seemingly minor things (like having a proper sui generis language ... and while we're at it please let me mention that awesome soundtrack and voice acting).

As for the game itself it should be some simple stuff. Maybe something along the lines of the "seventh guest microscope game" (in case you don't know this, just look it up in youtube - it's a PC game from 1993). Just be creative as usual!

[Baleful]

Good thinking!
But I'm not sure what IS this "cheskers" game. Taking playing board into account, this is apparently mix between chess and checkers. Chess with checkers' rules? Checkers with chess rules (not likely)?

OH, wait a minute. This is a REAL game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheskers
I HAD NO IDEA!

[shooflypi]

I pitched it to Andy (NoRepro) and he likes the idea!