We at a stage where desktop environments become faster than the OS they run on (ahem... Windows).
Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
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#32Would be fun if game engine editor environments took on the UI paradigm of an operating system like windows. So that instead of going to the File menu at the top of unreal engine to open the blueprint debugger, you navigated the start menu to find the program. I’ve reflected to myself so many times that UE4 feels like an operating system, would be fun if in the future it actually was ha
I think that the Godot UI editor is written with Godot, so it should be possible!
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#33This is great. Would you recommend Godot for prototyping UIs, in general, over HTML/JavaScript?
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#34This might still be useful in the real world. Think movie industry, where having a mock OS for showing characters doing computer things is practically a trope in its own right. I was recently in a discussion with some fans of the movie Hackers, in which one of them asked what OS they used in the movie. My reply was to the effect of, what every movie in the 90s used, which was basically Mac OS with fake UI elements cobbled together in Macromedia Director (or Flash in later films).
With film studios increasingly turning to game engines for applications like providing real-time on-set CG as a reference for a shoot, something like this may well be the modern version of that.
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#35Related: Grey Hack is a fake OS, Network, Internet in a multiplayer game where the objective is to hack (including each other). It simulates many basic functions quite well (you can steal files, place files on other computers, install software, run commands from a command line, including imitations of many tools). You can also write your own programs.
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#36Very nice. I wish it would also work on mobile. The initial screen showed up but "clicking" on folders does not cause any action.
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#37Re: Show HN: GodotOS – Fake operating system interface made in the Godot engine
#38Related: Grey Hack is a fake OS, Network, Internet in a multiplayer game where the objective is to hack (including each other). It simulates many basic functions quite well (you can steal files, place files on other computers, install software, run commands from a command line, including imitations of many tools). You can also write your own programs.
When will someone go all in and release a hack game with hundreds of emulated real little servers of various operating systems and vulnerabilities?
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#39This just makes me yearn for a UI-centric minimal compilation mode for Godot. It's such an enticing target for GPU-rendered UI, and there are even some excellent libraries and plugins out there for making components that are useful in engineering or data analysis!
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#40Related: Grey Hack is a fake OS, Network, Internet in a multiplayer game where the objective is to hack (including each other). It simulates many basic functions quite well (you can steal files, place files on other computers, install software, run commands from a command line, including imitations of many tools). You can also write your own programs.
When will someone go all in and release a hack game with hundreds of emulated real little servers of various operating systems and vulnerabilities?
Isn’t hack the box already itching this?