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This really sounds like a game for hardcore programmers (16-bit emulation, "assembly in space" as h2s called it.) Minecraft is far more accessible: will this really gain nearly as much traction?
I feel like this will be a game where those of us that know assembly will end up writing our weird assembly programs for playing text based adventures or spinning our ships in spirals or whatever, whereas everything that is actually necessary will (hopefully) be able to be bought/created in game. Also, there's probably going to be a lot of community sharing of ideas and programs (just like there is with Minecraft) so…
Looks fun, I want to make a program that does orbit translations and stuff for you with minimum delta-v.
We are in the year 281 474 976 712 644, but there are only 16 bit computers on the ships? Anachronism!!!
No. The ships were launched in the 80's, and all the tech they contain is 16-bit. Presumably, there are more powerful computers out there, but they are advanced enough that you are certainly not going to do anything useful with them. (Let's just ignore that the tech ran without issue and succesfully woke you up after 281*10^12 years.) I find this actually really clever. I suppose the less programmatically inclined wi…
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I once had the opportunity to consider licensing Star Trek to do a game around. Figuring I couldn't possibly do anything but fuck it up, I passed.
Since you already brought it up and probably piqued the curiosity of more than one reader (including mine), could you elaborate?
Has anyone decoded the name? He said it was related to 1 in a 64-bit system read in 16-bit with the wrong endianness, or something like that. I tried my hand at it briefly but gave up.
I think you're referring to his tweet: "What happens if you try to read a 64 bit representation of 1 in a 16 bit system, but you get the endianness wrong?"
In other words, the endianness and 64/16-bit comments in that tweet weren't a puzzle, so much as the back story. (Check the paragraph beginning "In 1998"). i.e.: "What happens if you specify something one way and a program reads it a different way? You end up a 200 trillion years in the future!"
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Out of curiosity what is classified as "Quake in Space" and "WoW in Space" ?
Quake in Space is maybe Shattered Horizon? "WoW in Space" is either Star Trek Online or Star Wars the Old Republic.
I hope this doesn't ship for a year or two. I'd like to get more work done first :)
Great, now I can finally stop pretending that Infinity: Quest for Earth is actually going to happen.
I hope so because anything which encourages and helps people to learn programming is a plus in my book.
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I don't disagree. But it is important to note that the minimum viable product for the creator of minecraft is significantly different from the minimum viable product for random internet denizen x. You are guaranteed a certain amount of customer engagement when your pre-existing customers have already begging for years to hear about your next product.
"Hello, I'm Gabe Newell, I would like to introduce you to our new game, titled "Fill in The Blank". You run around, maybe as part of a group of some sort. Maybe rescue some hostages, scout and snipe terrorists every now and then and maybe stab a chicken or two. Physic, shaders and purple monkey dishwasher; I'm surprised you got this far before signing up for our email notification subscription." Yes, some personaliti…