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Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by bru »

jbott wrote: post #2

Hey guys, author here. Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!

How will you handle special key combinations such as Ctrl+C to interrupt what's running?

It looks like it will be the second-generation democracy mode. That looks a bit too easy: in theory we would simply have to follow the install guide line-by-line and it would work.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by tux3 »

Svenstaro wrote: post #3

How will you react on people doing illegal stuff such as trying to setup up a spam server or downloading illegal things?

Since this seems to be a ""collaborative"" game, if someone manages to go that far without anyone else foiling their plans, they deserve a medal!

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Post by ingenter »

jbott wrote: post #2

Hey guys, author here. Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!

Not a question, but some suggestions:

- Make sure you're streaming in low-delay mode. I've seen some people stream with 8 second delay, but I don't know how they do it.

- Count `Ctrl-C` and similar combinations as a single keystroke

- Save states

God bless the poor VM.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by jbott »

lucb1e wrote: post #5

Hmm, `system_reset` is an available command. Is that a good idea if people just spam it randomly? Because they will... Perhaps detecting when the machine is powered off and automatically turning it on is more effective.

The problem is that it is possible to put the machine into a state where it does not accept key inputs, so the only way to get it out is to do a "hard reset". We are still not sure how to handle that (Possible a confirmation box where they have to type "yes" to do it?). That whole subsystem is still undergoing revisions, so we are going to do some testing later and see if we can make that less easily exploited.
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