Welcome to this week's blurb!

Cool banner, huh? You know what's even cooler? Playing golf. Even more cool than that? Playing Hot Shots Golf 3. Good game, good golfing mechanics, nice charm to it since it's a Playstation 2 title, and an all around great time. But why do I even enjoy golf so much, it looks like a boring sport like tennis or cricket! Wrong. Wacking a ball as hard as you can with a long iron club over a long distance is a pretty fun thing to do, and the fact that you can drive to the ball in a little cart is also pretty epic. And while you might say if "I wanted to hit some balls, I'd play baseball or soccer," then I would say that there's nothing more satisfying than being able to both hit the ball with something strong so viscerally while at the same time still having the room to do really crazy cool shots. Baseball? Hit the ball, just hope it goes far, that's all. Soccer? You're hitting it with your leg, literally lame. Golf? Now that's where it's at.

Tangent aside, for this week's speculation, we'll be taking a look at the possibility of the minigame system being updated, as well as some interesting ideas and takes in regard to how it could be updated and improved.

With that out of the way, let's take a look at what the community has been up to!

Minigames, a critical aspect of Brickadia! Without minigames, you'd have yourself a game that is basically just sandbox plus some cool behaviors coming up in the future. It's funny that I really haven't thought much about the minigame system considering frequently it is the case that a lot of the fun stuff that happens in Brickadia can stem from minigames themselves, whether that be fun and interesting run-to-a-checkpoint games, deathmatches, or even just Bricktionary which, for those not aware, is basically just Pictionary.

With the eventual release of Early Access coming closer day by day, it is a bit interesting to at least think about how the system itself could be improved, or at least what new gamemodes we could eventually see in Brickadia. As a matter of fact, I'd wager that there's a lot of potential for many sorts of fun types of minigames to be had.

Let's take a look at one idea I had recently that would be a sick addition as a gamemode given how we've been shown a particular entity object:

Credit: wrap

The SPHERE!

Now, if you've already seen the banner (which I assume you would've, it's the first thing you see on this whole page), then you can probably guess where I'm going with this.

But stick with me here, could you imagine just how sick it would be for players to make their own courses, plant checkpoints and holes that correspond to each other on the goal, and edit the mechanics of the game to account for how long a course might be, like how many shots for a par on a hole?

Here's another thought: if you've ever played minigolf, then you've definitely seen some interesting, albeit awesome looking courses with all sorts of structures, layouts, and design elements put in place for them, and given how Brickadia will have physics on release, could you imagine a spawn that moves around, or even a hole that moves around?

Credit: Par-King Skill Golf

Credit: PAX West 2018

Can you even believe that there's a sign that says DURRR BURGER at PAX a couple years back, and that it was done by Fortnite? Talk about crazy coincidences, and the fact that it's a burger too on the course is wild.

Now for some insight as to what could be improved or ask, since he had answered this week's blurb question of the week and has some strong opinions on the system before, I asked The Sir Rolfe for a comment for a question similar to one he had answered before:

"If the developers were to work on updating the minigame system, what changes do you think they'd make, or that you'd at least hope they'd made?"

Now we know, like with almost every other aspect of the game being worked on for release as of right now, there will eventually be changes to the minigame system. When that will happen or when the news of that will take place, we'll have yet to see that, but the possibilities as to what gamemodes we can get, how we can tweak them and edit them, or even how we can use them with different features and aspects of the game seem almost limitless. Could you imagine playing minigolf across city rooftops, or playing a game of capture the flag more easily in a castle setting?

Personally, one thought that I do have is that while some gamemodes like capture the flag or anything similar to deathmatch could be done with the deathmatch gamemode, having the ease of access by offering those sub-gamemodes as an option instead of having to edit the gamemode to an incredibly trivial degree is something I feel is somewhat necessary. Paintball? Its own gamemode. A game of legally-distinct UNO? Slap it on a table, its own gamemode. While the idea isn't to eliminate having to be creative to make certain minigame ideas real, with a clunky UI and a limited selection, I think it's fair to say some attention could be given to the minigame system.

But yeah, if you're reading this, add golf or minigolf as a gamemode for minigames. It'd be really cool, I promise, you could even have golfing clubs as an item you can normally use and wack people with it, come on it's awesome. DO IT.