Creating a Drupal Mafia style game

I have always wanted to create a web based game from scratch, and started quickly abandoned a few. (Crazy 8's was ready as a stand alone but let it sit I might try later to port to Drupal)

Now since using Drupal for a majority of my development I thought I'd try one for Drupal. By using Drupal I already have an admin interface in which to interact with, a user registration system, and a fairly well documented api in which to develop the game.

I consider a mafia game to be any of the style that has users commit crimes for money / experience, attack other players for money and experience, and form factions to have allies / enemies. Many pirate style MMORPG games use the same format but swap pirate crimes / islands with mafia style crimes / homes.

The goal isn't to just copy this format but alter it into something that is its own stand alone MMORPG. But I will still use the basic underlying logic.

Since my target audience are drupal coders or other coers in general perhaps instead of crimes we can have events such has `deface a site`, `DDOS another site` yada yada. We could even have good hacking events if the user decided to be a White Hat hacker instead. We could then break from the mafia style game by adding another dimension that includes a good / evil ratio

Instead of strength,speed,defence as the major attributes we could use `offensive hacking`, `defensive hacking` `speed`

The pirate styled games sometimes have a combination of island or base, and a ship or fleet. For this it would be more on computing power and connection. The users would need something to spend the money they earned which could include computing equipment, base upgrades, or just bling to show off.

Now that I have a basic concept I need to start planning on what tables I will need to get at least an alpha module ready to test.

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