Art or Garbage?

I created a fun little game as an experiment. It has a mechanic that will permanently kick players. I am curious what you guys think. If you could please try it and let me know, that would be great! Thanks :smiley:

Also, I am happy to try to explain any design decisions I made and am open to suggestions and criticisms.

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Meh, if youā€™re going to do something like this I feel like it could have been accomplished in a much more interesting way. Simply put, a 3-life heads/tails game is neither fun nor exciting. You play your 3 lives and youā€™re doneā€¦ itā€™s interesting but it doesnā€™t feel like much of a game. As lives are not conserved in this game (winner doesnā€™t gain a life, every game 1 life is taken away from the whole), I donā€™t see any point in banning players who run out of lives. You inevitably run out of players, and quickly too.

I think you could create much more interesting game mechanics based on player-player interactions that actually depend on individual action rather than luck. Imagine some kind of game that requires random players to work together with chat disabled to reach an end goal where ultimately only 1 person can succeed. Would the random player let you progress in the end? Would you let the random player progress? Would you both fight in the end for the single spot? Idk specifics, but I think itā€™d be a cool idea.

This is super cool as eventually based on probability there will be one person who would win against every winner, like a massive tournament tree.

The only downside is that imagine someone has 99 wins and flips against a new player, both are 50/50. However say the person who has won 99 times always picks heads, and the new player always picks tails, for the 99 winner to win 100 times the odds are actually 7.88861 x 10^-31 which is very small.

The math checks out here.

Game Theory, I like it

I died after four wins. Iā€™m definitely not the luckiest.

Lost 2
Won 1
Lost 1

RIP

Quest to get the most down rated game on Roblox

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The best part of the game was doing a coin flip duel when both people have 1 life left

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Or top earning game if you give the option to restart for R$

But then again that might be a form of gambling so maybe donā€™t do that lol

Awesome game!

But where is the secret cave?

lost with 0 points :sob:

I reached 10 points and Iā€™m gonna stop here! :stuck_out_tongue:
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We should have an RBXDev leaderboard, see who can get the highest points!

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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

Iā€™m actually scared to play because I donā€™t want to end up banned from the game through no fault of my own. If there was an element of skill involved I might be more inclined to try it, but then with 3 lives and no way to re-gain them, there canā€™t really be much of a learning curve.

It would be fun to implement the Prisonerā€™s Dilemma like this, and make it so that you can choose between 2 moves (defect or cooperate) and then try to get the highest score, and let people retry different strategies if they fail. Although thatā€™s subject to manipulation if you get two people to constantly play each other

6 wins before dying. It was weirdly satisfying to risk everything over a coin flip.

I donā€™t really like the idea of a permanent end. Imagine all the Robux from people buying livesā€¦ course, that probably wasnā€™t the purpose of the game.
For some reason, the server I am in is EXTREMELY bias to tails. It is basically ā€œTails neva failsā€ as another player stated.

Edit: Andā€¦ dead. I think I will just leave a dislike, it wasnā€™t a fun game for me.

I thought this was insanely fun. There was some tyrant king ruling the castle and I went inside and told him we had to duel to the death. I said if he declined my challenge, I was the new king.

So I killed the king and was the new ruler until some other guy came along and dueled me. I sent two of my knights to duel him but he got lucky and beat both of them, and defeated me in the end.

For your next smash hit, do a vampire game where you steal lives instead of just removing them.

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Really interesting concept. Iā€™ve been entertaining the idea of a game with permanent death before and itā€™s interesting to see how this played out.

Not surprisingly itā€™s a pretty empty game now that most of the people interested in it have died off :slight_smile:

FYI if all you want to do is explore a little you can play as a Guest. Itā€™ll kick you out after a couple of minutes (understandably) but itā€™s enough time to get a look around in an area. Then you can clear your cookies and do it again.