Tagged “games”

Incredible stuff. "Nearly 1:1 in terms of geography and population."

even what seems like the simplest thing has hundreds of factors

It works! Pause for about 10s then resume

we've sat through some poor AC games because we're always hoping they get back to recapturing the magic of AC2

I only really played the first two but this tracks

TL;DR: I created a patch called EmperorLauncher, which modifies Emperor: Battle for Dune to run well on modern systems, with:
High resolution support
Working online multiplayer with direct ip connection
Coop Campaign mode

Writeup and high res would have been enough. Fixing multiplayer was amazing insanity

And in the video game library.

working at Rockstar in the 90s. Made me want to play some GTA2

Julius is a fully working open-source version of Caesar 3.

Beautiful beautiful phrase

Had heard of ET game, didn't know about the games that came before it.

Incredible project

From a saved note from years ago, I apparently wanted to learn OCaml in 2016. Never did

Great writeup on the many challenges posed by adding doors to a game. Also quite amazing seeing how much people can do with Unreal without having to type code.

Some great design notes, making things with game design in mind (i.e. "make the next action obvious"), rather than just going for goddamn slot machine mechanics.

via Amelia

I don't have strong opinion on it one way or the other. But I think we can all agree that exploitative game mechanics do suck.

Twitter thread that apparently motivated the removal.

Mobile games that aren't full of ads, slot-machine mechanics, or micropayments

Tips on stair placement, making things visible in levels, and some room/layout tricks to make stairs actually useful rather than min-length ramps between areas of different heights.

Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land.
Transport passengers to their destination.
Watch the world go by.
Listen to chilled out chiptune music.

A beautiful, amazing thing.

Found my first contributions to Zero-K! Was looking for commits but this predated the git repo

Good writeup of the scary phenomenon of getting people to people batshit insane conspiracy theories. "Don't trust experts. Do your own research. Here's some facebook posts to get you started".

A lot of programmers get to that second 90%, get tired and bored and frustrated, and change jobs, or lose focus, or find excuses to procrastinate. There are a million ways not to finish a project, but there’s only one way to finish: Put your head down and grind it out until it’s done. Do that, and I promise you the programming world will be yours.

The ludicrous complexity of everyday activities is never as obvious as when you ary to add it to a game.