A video game where you are an operating system
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A video game where you are an operating system
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#2I’m half a sentence into this website and I’m already completely on board.
One of the best ways to grok a problem like this. “Hey now you’re the memory manager. Good luck.”
I love this idea so much. I bet it could be dressed up in a cute way where it’s a take on the restaurant management sim. But the restaurant is a computer and your customers are the resources.
Human Resource Machine was great this way. I remember at one point thinking, “wait, did I just make a linked list?”
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#3Games like these have a strong future.
Basically games that innovate beyond what a game engines like Unity or Unreal can offer are, by design, going in a direction that is more likely to succeed than anything we see come out these days...
Making super nerdy games that are so far off the field the engines users can't touch you, puts you in a different league; even if your game looks like a dog's breakfast, as long as it's fun and usable.
Indie games are dead, in the sense that they were indie games 5 years ago. This, is the new indie games now. GG. (ref: failed indie developer with 2+ commercial titles).
It's a shame that Zachtronics stopped, they've always been ahead of the game.
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#4Very cool. Reminds me of the game posted last week (defcon thing?) in which Tetris-block-like squares containing op codes fall and the user has to position Rube Goldberg sequences that shuffle the biggest possible number into the “score” memory register
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#5This is pretty nerdy but c'mon, it's like Cookie Clicker or some other idle game when compared to Zachtronics titles.
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#6dwarf fortress rekt
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#7And very soon you will provide a scripting language that allow the OS to automate things, right?
Oh I see...
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#8This is pretty nerdy but c'mon, it's like Cookie Clicker or some other idle game when compared to Zachtronics titles.
TIS-100 is certainly far up there in "nerdiest game" rankings, and I must offer Bombe as well, the only game I know of that embeds Z3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
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#9This is pretty nerdy but c'mon, it's like Cookie Clicker or some other idle game when compared to Zachtronics titles.
Unlike cookie clicker, this game can actually teach you something.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#10Games like these have a strong future. Basically games that innovate beyond what a game engines like Unity or Unreal can offer are, by design, going in a direction that is more likely to succeed than anything we see come out these days... Making super nerdy games that are so far off the field the engines users can't touch you, puts you in a different league; even if your game looks like a dog's breakfast, as long as…
In what way does this game go beyond what Unity can offer?