Games - The Online Kilometer game

Introduction

The purpose of this game is to reach 1000Km with your 'car'. For this purpose you are given 5 cards to begin with. There are cards for gaining distance (black), accidents to others (red), protection (blue), and item (green) cards. Your car starts with 0Km on the gauge and RedLight.

How to play the game

The game is played on our network in the channel #ScaryGames/Km. Join there and type the !go command. This will enlist you in the game. Should a game already be running you'll need to wait until the round is over. There is *NO* Limit on the maximum amount of players for this game. The minimum amount is 2 players. As soon as the minimum amount of players has been reached, a timer of 2 minutes will start. Other players are able to join within that time.

Once the game starts, you will receive 5 cards through notice from Km like this:
-Km- Your cards are: 25Km SpareTire 25Km EndLimit RedLight
-Km- You've obtained: Nitro
-Km- Your cards are: 25Km SpareTire 25Km EndLimit RedLight Nitro
Where the type of the cards can be one of the following:

• Black Cards:
  In order to move on you need these Black Cards, they come in the following varieties:
  25Km, 50Km, 75Km, 100Km and 200Km.
  Note: If SpeedLimit is active on you, then you cannot use more then 50Km.
• Red Cards:
  The game is not only about driving your car to get to the 1000Km, but you are also able to mess around with your opponents if you have one or more of these cards.
  In order to use them you need to type: !play <card> <victim>, where <card> is one of the in the list mentioned cards and <victim> being the person you want to use the card against.
  • Accident:
    Make your opponent's car eat a tree.
  • FlatTire:
    Throw out those nails and puncture your opponents tires.
  • LowFuel:
    Make your opponent stop by putting him out of fuel.
  • RedLight:
    Hack into traffic control and put a red light in front of your opponent.
  • SpeedLimit:
    Sabotage the car and make it run 50Km max. That should slow him down.
• Green Cards:
  Green cards are used in order to fix things and to keep your car in shape for driving.
  Whenever a red card has been played against you, you are able to use one of these in order to fix your issue.
  In order to drive, you need to have a GreenLight status.
  • Reparation:
    Ate a tree? Then you just had an Accident and need this car to repair it.
  • SpareTire:
    This card is used in case your car got damaged by FlatTire.
  • Fuel:
    Refuel your car after getting hit by LowFuel.
  • GreenLight:
    Probably the most important card in this game is the GreenLight card. It enables your car to drive again. This card is the countermeasure against RedLight and needed after repairs unless you got Priority.
  • EndLimit:
    Remove that nasty limit that keeps you from driving more than 50km? Then this is that card you need to get rid of it. This is the cure for SpeedLimit.
• Blue Cards:
  We've shown driving, you've seen attack and you saw about how to repair stuff.
  But there is one more set to tell you about. The blue cards, also known as protection cards.
  These cards, if in possession, protect you against the red cards and they also have another feature:
  If you keep the card hidden, and someone uses a red card against you that is covered by the blue one, your card will activate the protection immediately.
  And whether you !play the card or if it gets activated by the attack, you will also gain 100Km.
  A word of warning: make sure your protection cards are activated before you are in critical reach of your 1000Km, if you for example are at 950Km and a card gets activated, you will go over the line and still loose!
  • AsVolant:
    This card protects you against Accident.
  • Tireless:
    This card protects you against FlatTire.
  • Citerne:
    This card protects you against LowFuel.
  • Nitro:
    This card protects you against SpeedLimit.
  • Priority:
    This card protects you against RedLight.
    It also ensures you will get immediate GreenLight after any repair.

On the channel you will see something like:
<Km> It's Players's turn.
<Km> Gauge: 0Km | Status: RedLight
Gauge shows you the current distance you travelled already. Status shows the state your car is in.
If your status ain't GreenLight, then you need to investigate why you cannot drive and fix the issue using either a green or a blue card to get further.

If you have a card you want to play, use the !play command with the name of the card after it. For example:
!play greenlight
You can only play cards that you own.

If you do not have any cards you can use to !play, then you need to throw a card away using !throw. Example:
!throw fuel
You can only throw cards that you own. It is not advised to throw blue cards, play those instead as you will also gain 100Km, no matter if your car got damaged or not.

Elimination of players

The game needs a winner, but in the long battle, users may already have left the game.
A player gets removed if one of the following situations occurs:

• The player left the channel or quitted IRC.
• The player didn't respond within 2 minutes to his turn.

End of the game

The game may end due to one of the following reasons:

• There are less then 2 players remaining in the game.
• A player reached the 1000Km marker.
• There are no more cards left in the deck.
• A player or an operator terminated the game using !stop.