DeKaTeK's Minigames

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DeKaTeK

21 Horde-style minigames in one window: solo, versus bots or friends, and party/raid/guild games.

DeKaTeK's Minigames

21 minigames in one window: solo games for flights and waiting, one-on-one games against a bot or a friend, and group games for your party, raid or guild.

Long flights, waiting for the group to fill, waiting for the raid to start: there is a lot of standing around in World of Warcraft. DeKaTeK's Minigames puts a whole games room inside the game. Open it with /mg, pick a game and play. When combat starts, the game pauses by itself, and you continue where you stopped.

Everything is in a Horde style: wyverns, bats, zeppelins, orcs, trolls and tauren, red and black iron. All art, music and game data are our own.

Made for WoW Forever. Texts in English and Slovak.

This is a BETA (version 0.1.0). All games are playable, but there will be bugs, and some numbers will still change. Found a bug? Type /mg bug. A window opens with a ready-made report (addon version, game build, language and the addon's saved error messages), already selected. Press Ctrl+C to copy it, then paste it into the Issues section of this page and add one or two sentences about what you were doing. Thank you, every report helps!

What it adds to the game

1. The game hub

Type /mg (or click the minimap button, or the entry in the addon menu next to the minimap) and the hub window opens.

Games are sorted into three tabs: Solo, Versus and Group.
Click a game to see its picture, a short description, your best score and how often you played. Double-click it, or press Play, to start.
Every game has a Details page with the full rules (How to play), your stats (for example Normal bot: 12 won, 7 lost, 1 drawn) and the guild leaderboard.
Put your favourite games on top: drag a game up or down in the list, or use the arrows.
On a flight? When a flight starts, a small window asks if you want to play something (you can turn this off).

What this changes for you: one window, one command, and you always have something to do while you wait.

2. Solo games

Game	What you do
Horde Gems	Swap gems to make lines of three. 4 in a line makes a Troll Spear, an L or T shape makes a Thunder Drum, 5 in a line makes a Spirit Storm. Swap two special pieces together for a bigger blast. Three modes: Against the clock (120 seconds), Limited moves (30 moves) and Zen (endless, no clock).
Solitaire	Classic patience with seven piles and four foundations. Draw 1 or Draw 3. Fewer moves and less time give a bigger bonus.
Ranks of the Horde	Slide and merge tiles: two Peons make a Scout, two Scouts make a Grunt, and so on up to Warlord (2048) and beyond. A War Horn removes one tile, a Horde Banner promotes any rank, and you have 3 undos per game.
Wind Rider	Endless flying. Hold the mouse button (or Space) to climb on a wyvern or a bat, let go to dive, and fly through gaps between rocks, zeppelins and thunder clouds. Near misses fill the War Cry meter for a few seconds of speed where nothing can hurt you.
Outpost Defense	Tower defense. Build six kinds of Horde towers (axe throwers, troll headhunters, thunder totems, catapults, witch doctor wards, tauren stompers), each with 3 levels and a final choice of two upgrades. Use war powers like Bloodlust, Earthquake and Wyvern Strike. Three maps (20, 25 and 30 waves), up to 3 stars per map, then an endless mode for a high score.
Goblin Minefield	Clear the field without stepping on a mine. Three sizes, from 9 x 9 with 10 mines up to 30 x 16 with 99 mines. The first click is always safe, and a Scout can check a cell for you at a time cost.
Horde War Band	A rhythm game with an orc band. Notes slide down four lanes: hit them with D F J K (or 1 2 3 4) or the mouse. 10 songs: 4 of our own and 6 rock versions of famous classical pieces (In the Hall of the Mountain King, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Rondo alla Turca, Symphony No. 5, Für Elise, Ode to Joy). Easy, Normal and Hard, a combo up to x4, Bloodlust for double points, and a latency calibration.
Dungeon	A first-person dungeon crawl, step by step. Your team of three beasts from Horde Beastmasters fights what you meet. Find the key, open the gate, take the stairs down: five floors and a boss, chests, shrines, traps, secret walls, a goblin trader and relics. There is a new daily dungeon, the same for the whole guild, with today's guild ranking. Up to 5 party members can crawl together.

What this changes for you: a quick round of Gems on a short flight, a full Defense map on a long one, and something to beat tomorrow.

3. Versus games (one on one)

Play every versus game against a bot (Easy, Normal or Hard) or against another player who has the addon (guild, party, raid, or anyone you type by name).

Game	What you do
Horde Beastmasters	Our own monster-battle game with real creatures of Azeroth. Choose your first beast (a wolf, a raptor or a scorpid), then tame wild creatures in the world: target one, mark it, kill it, then hit the rings to tame it. Beasts grow to level 30, learn new moves, and you pick 4 moves for each. Battles are 3 against 3 with elements, fury and switching. Beat the Trainer Ladder of 15 Horde tamers (from the Valley of Trials to Orgrimmar), fight quick battles, or challenge a player.
Chess	Full rules, including castling, en passant and promotion. Classic 2D pieces or 3D creatures. Against the bot you get Undo and Hint.
Checkers	Captures are a must, crowned pieces move backwards too.
Four of the Horde	Drop discs and line up four before your rival does.
Reversi	Trap your rival's discs between yours and flip them to your colour.
Zeppelin Hunt	Hide your fleet of six war machines, then hunt the enemy fleet shot by shot. Two war powers: the Wyvern Scout (counts hidden parts in a 3 x 3 area) and the Bombing Run (hits a line of 3). Both fleets are sealed at the start and checked at the end, so nobody can cheat.
Poker	Community card poker for 2 to 6 seats. Bots fill the empty seats. Play chips only: no gold is ever used.
Bone Dice	Push your luck with six dice, or a quick High roll. 2 to 4 players, bots fill the empty seats. Play chips only.

What this changes for you: a real opponent any time, even when nobody is online, and a reason to challenge your guildmates.

4. Group games

For your party, raid or guild (up to 40 players). Trivia, Quick Reflexes and Bingo also work alone for practice.

Game	What you do
Tavern Trivia	A quick quiz with 375 questions in English and Slovak, in 9 categories: Warcraft lore, Azeroth's world, the game, geography, history, science, nature, culture and games. Faster answers and streaks give more points. A 50/50 helper once per game. Modes: Classic, Survival (three wrong answers and you are out) and Practice.
Quick Reflexes	Short reflex rounds: wait for the signal, find the target, quick sums, memory flash, stop the bar. Your own computer measures your time, so lag does not matter.
Grom'gol Bingo	Everyone gets their own 5 x 5 card. Numbers mode, or Raid bingo, where the cards show raid-night happenings and the host ticks them as they really happen. Patterns: any line, four corners, big X, full card.
Scribble Hut	Draw-and-guess for 2 to 12 players. One player draws a secret word, the others type guesses. Everyday words and Warcraft words, in English or Slovak.
Boss Tactics	Practise real dungeon boss fights on a top-down map before you go in. Pick a boss and a role (tank, healer, melee or ranged), read the briefing, then move out of red areas, stack in blue ones, interrupt and dispel. Play solo with bots filling the group, or with your real party. After the fight a report shows what hurt you, who missed an interrupt or a dispel, and a grade.

Boss Tactics includes 3 training drills plus bosses from Hall of Thanes, Ruins of Lordaeron, Excavation Site: Wetlands, City of Dalaran and Blackrock Depths. Bosses whose details are not confirmed for WoW Forever yet are clearly marked in the game. Raid bosses are not in this version yet.

What this changes for you: a game night for the guild without leaving the game, and a group that already knows where to stand before the first pull.

5. Multiplayer, leaderboards and tournaments

Multiplayer page: see your group and online guild members (a star shows who has the addon), invite them, or join open games.
Open to party, raid or guild: host a game and everybody in that group gets an invitation.
Bots: add bots to empty seats; if a player leaves, a bot can take over the seat.
Score tournaments: everyone plays the same solo game (Horde Gems, Solitaire, Ranks of the Horde, Wind Rider, Outpost Defense or Goblin Minefield) for 3, 5 or 10 minutes. A small panel shows the time left, the top 5 and your place, and the final ranking comes at the end.
Guild leaderboards: the best score in your guild for every game, and your own place.
Players need the same addon version to play together. The addon tells you when someone has an older or newer one.

What this changes for you: your score means something, because your guild can see it and beat it.

6. Options

Open the Options page in the hub (or right-click the minimap button). Settings are shared by all your characters.

Language: English or Slovak.
Sound effects and Music on or off, and which sound channel they use (Master, Effects, Music, Ambience, Dialog).
Pause the game when combat starts (on by default).
Offer a game when a flight starts.
Window size: from half size up to double size.
Show the minimap button.
Game invitations: show them or not, and accept them from anyone, guild and group (default) or nobody.
Beastmasters: show the Mark for taming button when you target a creature.
Reset the window position or the game order.

7. Language window

The first time you log in, a small window with two flags asks for your language: English or Slovak. You can change it later in Options, or open the window again with /mg language.

Commands

/mg or /minigames – open or close the hub
/mg <game> – open one game directly, for example /mg chess, /mg gems or /mg trivia
/mg bug – open the bug report window
/mg language – choose the language
/mg help – list of commands
/mg debug – debug messages on or off (for bug hunting)

Game names for /mg <game>: gems, solitaire, merge, flyer, defense, mines, band, dungeon, monsters, chess, checkers, four, reversi, shiphunt, poker, dice, trivia, reaction, bingo, draw, tactics.

Good to know

No gold betting anywhere. Poker and dice use play chips only.
Safe in combat: the addon never touches your action bars or protected parts of the game. Games pause when combat starts (you can turn this off), and every game can be played with the mouse alone.
Light on your computer: a game's window is built only the first time you open it, and games stop updating while the window is hidden.
Multiplayer uses addon messages in your guild, party, raid or whisper. Turn-based games are made for this; during some boss fights the game may refuse these messages for a moment.
Horde Beastmasters taming works on creatures out in the world (not every creature can be tamed). If a creature's 3D model cannot be shown on this client, the game shows a stand-in.
Options also has a Test sound button and a Model check that tests which creature models your client can show (the result goes to chat).
This is a beta: please report bugs with /mg bug.