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Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
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Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do they need to gamefy it? Toys as townscaper exist and have received positive feedback.
My favorite aspect of this game is that it’s not actually a game, and more like a zen garden. Adding more game elements would ruin that aspect.
There is no reason, why you cannot have both.
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#63My wife is a water resources engineer, a type of civil engineering focused on flood prevention and erosion. I think I've finally found a PC game she's going to be excited by.
I'm an accountant. I really /really/ want to play an accounting game. (I'm not an accountant, although I have partially trained as one)
Beware that Accounting+, however similar in name, won't fit the bill.
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Minecraft has a story and an ending, with the opportunity to get there as you'd like. Why not have this for this game?
Not the original Minecraft.
What is the "original" Minecraft? Infiniminer? That's so far removed from what folks understand when the name is used I think I can be excused for not understanding it as that.
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#65I like poking around with these sorts of sandboxes, but in order to gamify it, you might need some objectives, limitations and planning goals, eg: - you have a limited amount of some mineral or rock that erodes quicker or slower than others, and you need to move water from one location to another. - there is a magma chamber growing under a mountain. Move the villagers out of harms way / destroy enemies. - introduce s…
From Dust played with the idea of terrain manipulation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk4hRWD6BT8 I played it on the Xbox 360, but it's on Steam as well. https://store.steampowered.com/app/33460/From_Dust/
This game is genius and desperately needs a remaster and re-release
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#66Somehow reminded of this weird obscure project Songs of the Eons, they too afaik have somewhat comprehensive simulations of basic geography https://demiansky.itch.io/songs-of-the-eons/devlog/365296/st...
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#67Evokes the same "staring at a lava lamp" feeling as Weather Sandbox [0]. I yearn for a Sim Earth replacement and seeing folks work on simulation sandboxes like this give me hope.
Now give me something planet scale with basic climate, biosphere, evolutionary models, and a Simpsons "Genesis Tub" approach to Civilization and I might not leave the keyboard days on end.
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of us prefer open ended sandboxes/simulators like Minecraft, C:S, flight sims. Following game designer gets boring fast, setting own goals is always fun Speaking of CS, I wish this simulator had heightmap export.
Minecraft has a story and an ending, with the opportunity to get there as you'd like. Why not have this for this game?
MC's story is its downside for me, I wish it didn't have it.
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#69I think the water is missing momentum? It seems to always to prefer to create 90 degree bends and straight lines. Or maybe that's just an artifact of the terrain mesh being axis aligned
Re: Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could totally cheat the river physics. The game would look better and nobody would know.
It needn't even be that much of a cheat! There are empirically validated equations that can '1-dimensionally' model river meander evolution. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1018448 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.102...
I'd never heard of the OSTI before. Interesting.