2025-01-15 Minigames in People Playground I've Designed
People Playground is a great game.
For people who've never played it, google it you fucking lazy wanker.
Anyways, one thing I really enjoy doing in it is designing little minigames. Due to the physics and LEGO-like building mechanics, you can make a lot of little games to try to play yourself. I usually play it in the context of using the characters to make a story, similar to a kid playing with LEGOs, but i've also done even more with it. Here's some things i've done over the years:
Humanhuhn
Humanhuhn is simple. You shoot humans up into the sky, and shoot them after they're up. The difficulty in the game comes into the way the scoring system is.
RULES
Get a setup as pictured in the image, a truck on the right side and a wall on the left.
Set a timer for how long you wish. This will be the length you have to shoot the humans. Once it's over, it's game over.
Put a frozen shotgun into the air and then blast (ONLY ONCE. MAKE THE SHOT COUNT.) once the human is in range.
A shot to the head is 200 points. Killing them at all is 100 points. A shot that removes their head is 300 points.
Throw all bodies that lived after the shot into the truck. Throw the others onto the wall. See how many you killed and how many you missed.
Once you're done, count how many you killed and how many points you got. Close the door of the truck, and drive the car far away. Watch as the ones you missed who thought were safe fly into a wall in vile, exciting death!
Ragtag Russian Roulette
Ragtag Russian Roulette is awesome, vulgar, and violent. You enjoy watching people hopelessly stay up to stay alive? This is the game for you. Ultimately, it's a lot like regular russian roulette, except more firing and more pain. People only die when they've finally had enough. It's not JUST a bullet to the head. It's random.
RULES
Get a building similar to pictured.
Put two humans in the hole with a gun.
Spin the gun rapidly, shoot every 5 seconds. Shorter if you'd like. ONLY SPIN IT WHEN IT'S AT MAX SPEED.
The first person dead loses. The alive attacker either gets to fight the next human or graduates free! Your choice.
Throw all corpses and set a timer. At the end. see how many died and how many lived. Alternatively, for an actual incentive at the end, choose a "protagonist". The human that will be you. If the human lives longer than a specific amount of people (you can set it as 5, 10, etc), then you win.
Average Wrestling Event
Average Wrestling Event is quite frankly, just what wrestling was like back in the day.
This one actually requires a mod, Active Humans. This mod adds extremely basic AI to the humans of People Playground, allowing them to fight each other or for you to control them. Additionally due to this, the mod is playable.
It's a wrestling match! ON LAVA! The first one drenched into the lava wins.
RULES
Go onto the Lava level, and put a brick wall of a length of your choosing as a platform ON the lava, but not INSIDE of the lava.
Put two humans there. Activate their "Berserk" function when selecting and right clicking them.PLAYING THE GAME INSTEAD Press "Control Human" on the human you wish to wrestle with.
The Humans will push and bash at each other until one falls into the lava. The one who falls is the loser. The winner is the one who remains on the platform.
If you are playing the game, you can do an "Endless" mode where you go as far down the chain as possible, metaphorically. Kill them, and don't die. If you die it's game over. Each time you kill someone you get a point. See how many kills you can get before death!
Not sure who else will get as much enjoyment out of these as I have, but they are intensely helpful timekillers for me I spend all my time dicking around with. Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!