effect ideas - rowr111/cubegarden GitHub Wiki

special modes:

• twister
• whack-a-mole
  • so you just have each cube pick a random number (say in 1-25), if it happens to be 4, light up
  • if it gets whacked, it transmits a pulse that tells the rest of the cubes to re-roll
  • you'll get an average of two cubes lighting per whack or something like that
  • you can then have each cube pick a random number of milliseconds and then if it's lit transmit a pulse saying it's lit
  • if nobody hears anything after say 200 milliseconds, everyone rerolls and listens again
    • you rely on the randomness to avoid collisions of radio transmissions

limited time effects:

• explosion effect (all go from dim to super bright over a couple seconds, then sparkle back to dim)

implementation ideas

• maybe A sends perm effect, B sends as temp effect

other ideas:

• special patterns that are only accessible depending on the number of cubes

  • can transmit serial number so that cubes know how many there are

• easter egg: if someone smacks a cube ten times in a row quickly, the cube transmits a command to its neighbors to switch to the whackamole effect for the next two minutes

  • now all of a sudden you can summon whackamole and play it, and then when you leave, a couple minutes later the thing resets to the default effect