So one thing I've been wondering is: The Witness had one aspect in it (which I won't spoil) that I thought was mindblowing and was a large part of what I felt made the game great. So far I've not seen any suggestions…
One small but charming game is Urbek City Builder. Has voxel graphics and less of a simulation and more of a radius placement system. Not very well known but it's one I've really enjoyed.
Same experience here. Amazing first run, but it's not really a city-builder you replay constantly, it's more of a solved puzzle game once you finish the run. Definitely worth playing though.
You need to add Chess-Network to your usual suspects.
The London Underground have been doing it in reverse for a long time. "There is good service on the Piccadilly line."
I would argue that even the basic concept behind STL is misguided. The rationale I often see is "you only need N algorithms for M container type, instead of N*M". This ignores the fact that algorithms and data…
I had a chemistry teacher who told us that hydrogen reacts violently with oxygen, and this is how the hydrogen bomb works.
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs...
There's this: https://www.ifwiki.org/ZILF https://zilf.io/ Although I haven't played with it and can't tell you whether it can compile the open source Zork.
"if let" just breaks my brain, it feels backwards to me and takes me a minute each time to work out what's going on. In 40 years of programming I've never seen a syntactic construct that I found less intuitive. And it…
Same here. Hollow Knight was simply wonderful - the graphics, the music, the characters, the boss fight designs, the melancholic feeling of the world. It's hard to say whether it was my best gaming experience ever…
It is that bad, at least for me. I enjoyed the first 8 hours of Silksong, but it turned very quickly after that because the punishments were just completely outweighing the rewards. No health upgrade in that time, no…
With everything doing 2 points of damage, including environmental hazards, the player is at effectively 2.5 hitpoints for a large majority of Act 1, as opposed to 5 in Hollow Knight. This changes the feeling of the game…
It was slightly more fiery than a mere "observation", hence "anomaly".
Some guy once famously noted that wealth is not measured in gold or silver, but in goods and services. Mansa Musa didn't have a Ferrari F40, or an RTX4090, or air conditioning. He couldn't buy a trip to low earth orbit…
Perhaps this is a good place to mention that someone is working on remaking the SMAC engine, the project is called "glsmac" on github. Unit graphics seem to be one of the major sticking points since the game used some…
For interactive fiction at least there are still people interested in it, and people are preserving Infocom history in particular. Other games might get forgotten over time unfortunately, especially on more obscure…
Well, clicked on it thinking it might be about an old favourite Infocom game, but apparently it appears to be about an old favourite Firaxis game... Are you the author of the web site? Please make sure the PgDn key…
Actually it means "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll".
You should be so lucky.
How do we actually know these browser forks don't contain malware of their own? If you can hide something in a tiny package like xz-utils... and a browser would seem to be a very juicy target.
To me this has always sounded like the kind of error-prone excessive cleverness that I wouldn't want anywhere near my version control system.
Nice to see that traditions are upheld, such as the unreadable font and colors.
Mercedes have figured those out already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ
Donald could be pretty dense at times.
So one thing I've been wondering is: The Witness had one aspect in it (which I won't spoil) that I thought was mindblowing and was a large part of what I felt made the game great. So far I've not seen any suggestions…
One small but charming game is Urbek City Builder. Has voxel graphics and less of a simulation and more of a radius placement system. Not very well known but it's one I've really enjoyed.
Same experience here. Amazing first run, but it's not really a city-builder you replay constantly, it's more of a solved puzzle game once you finish the run. Definitely worth playing though.
You need to add Chess-Network to your usual suspects.
The London Underground have been doing it in reverse for a long time. "There is good service on the Piccadilly line."
I would argue that even the basic concept behind STL is misguided. The rationale I often see is "you only need N algorithms for M container type, instead of N*M". This ignores the fact that algorithms and data…
I had a chemistry teacher who told us that hydrogen reacts violently with oxygen, and this is how the hydrogen bomb works.
A brand new pair of brogues, rattlin' o'er the bogs...
There's this: https://www.ifwiki.org/ZILF https://zilf.io/ Although I haven't played with it and can't tell you whether it can compile the open source Zork.
"if let" just breaks my brain, it feels backwards to me and takes me a minute each time to work out what's going on. In 40 years of programming I've never seen a syntactic construct that I found less intuitive. And it…
Same here. Hollow Knight was simply wonderful - the graphics, the music, the characters, the boss fight designs, the melancholic feeling of the world. It's hard to say whether it was my best gaming experience ever…
It is that bad, at least for me. I enjoyed the first 8 hours of Silksong, but it turned very quickly after that because the punishments were just completely outweighing the rewards. No health upgrade in that time, no…
With everything doing 2 points of damage, including environmental hazards, the player is at effectively 2.5 hitpoints for a large majority of Act 1, as opposed to 5 in Hollow Knight. This changes the feeling of the game…
It was slightly more fiery than a mere "observation", hence "anomaly".
Some guy once famously noted that wealth is not measured in gold or silver, but in goods and services. Mansa Musa didn't have a Ferrari F40, or an RTX4090, or air conditioning. He couldn't buy a trip to low earth orbit…
Perhaps this is a good place to mention that someone is working on remaking the SMAC engine, the project is called "glsmac" on github. Unit graphics seem to be one of the major sticking points since the game used some…
For interactive fiction at least there are still people interested in it, and people are preserving Infocom history in particular. Other games might get forgotten over time unfortunately, especially on more obscure…
Well, clicked on it thinking it might be about an old favourite Infocom game, but apparently it appears to be about an old favourite Firaxis game... Are you the author of the web site? Please make sure the PgDn key…
Actually it means "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll".
You should be so lucky.
How do we actually know these browser forks don't contain malware of their own? If you can hide something in a tiny package like xz-utils... and a browser would seem to be a very juicy target.
To me this has always sounded like the kind of error-prone excessive cleverness that I wouldn't want anywhere near my version control system.
Nice to see that traditions are upheld, such as the unreadable font and colors.
Mercedes have figured those out already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ
Donald could be pretty dense at times.