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Tape Recovery Simulator 96K
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't tell if this is a joke or an actual game, but I find this blurring of the lines interesting. Another game that blurred the lines that is actually one of my all-time favorites is Papers, Please. This is a game about being an immigration officer, a bureaucrat stamping papers and examining work permits... and it's brilliant and tremendously engaging. It can only exist as an indie game, of course -- imagine EA sa…
The author of Papers Please also made The Return of the Obra Dinn. It's another game about bureaucracy. This time you play as an insurance investigator.
Yes, of course, I love Obra Dinn too. But that's a more traditional tale of adventure, by the author's own admission -- that the player is an insurance investigator barely matters. You're on board a mysterious ship and must investigate its fate... sounds intriguing by definition!
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
The author of Papers Please also made The Return of the Obra Dinn. It's another game about bureaucracy. This time you play as an insurance investigator.
I never got around to finishing that one. There's an article out there about how the 1-bit color rendering works, which I found quite interesting: https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2019/10/17/lucas-pope-o...
You should try to finish it, it's pretty satisfying.
Do note some mysteries have more than one solution. It makes sense, when you think that "who" did "what" to "whom" has more than one possible interpretation, and the game tends to accept most of them as valid!
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#14> Tape backups are still a thing in some places, but they are generally considered a relic of the past.
Well that's utter BS. Tape is still a dominant backup form, particularly for archival purposes. The market is big and still growing year on year.
You can't get the same data density and portability out of any other form of backup, and it is a format still under heavy development and refreshes, with LTO-9 due out this year introducing 45TB media at 1GB/s.
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#15I love that this is blurring the lines about what the idea of a game is. I bet a lot of people will hate this game and a lot of people will love it (and a lot will just be like huh?). One thing for sure is that it looks interesting.
I can't tell if this is a joke or an actual game, but I find this blurring of the lines interesting. Another game that blurred the lines that is actually one of my all-time favorites is Papers, Please. This is a game about being an immigration officer, a bureaucrat stamping papers and examining work permits... and it's brilliant and tremendously engaging. It can only exist as an indie game, of course -- imagine EA sa…
I feel just about anything by Zachtronics fits this category. Spacechem was the title that got me back into indie gaming in 2012, but almost every single one of their games is essentially programming for fun. They really dropped the facade with Shenzhen I/O and TIS-100. The beautiful part about those games is how much story and narrative is pushed through design docs and specs and hidden man pages.
I feel Factorio also sits right on the edge of this category. You do get to shoot bugs, but in the end, you're really just debugging a giant wafer.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never got around to finishing that one. There's an article out there about how the 1-bit color rendering works, which I found quite interesting: https://blog.playstation.com/archive/2019/10/17/lucas-pope-o...
You should try to finish it, it's pretty satisfying. Do note some mysteries have more than one solution. It makes sense, when you think that "who" did "what" to "whom" has more than one possible interpretation, and the game tends to accept most of them as valid!
My recollection is that most of the multiple solutions are actually just cases where you're supposed to identify one correct solution, but how that solution actually maps to the very limited possible choices is ambiguous.
This is most annoying in (I think) chapter 5, which is where you get some of the more difficult characters to identify, dying deaths that are somewhat ambiguous, involving some of the supernatural aspects of the story, all in scenes that can only be visited by going through other scenes (so it's hard to go back and check them).
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#17Now there's a domain name that I haven't heard in a very long time
Right!? Up there with Adrenaline Vault, VE3D, and the original Shacknews before it got bought out. Good times...
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#18Interesting game idea :) I initially thought it could actually read old tapes, I was hoping this because I'm trying to recover some old Atari stuff. But no.
Funny idea though!
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#19> Tape backups are still a thing in some places, but they are generally considered a relic of the past. Well that's utter BS. Tape is still a dominant backup form, particularly for archival purposes. The market is big and still growing year on year. You can't get the same data density and portability out of any other form of backup, and it is a format still under heavy development and refreshes, with LTO-9 due out th…
These are audio cassette backups, Commodore 64 style.
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#20> Tape backups are still a thing in some places, but they are generally considered a relic of the past. Well that's utter BS. Tape is still a dominant backup form, particularly for archival purposes. The market is big and still growing year on year. You can't get the same data density and portability out of any other form of backup, and it is a format still under heavy development and refreshes, with LTO-9 due out th…
I think by that they referred to audio cassette tapes specifically, not the custom tapes used for backups these days nor the tape reels of the 60s/70s. They don't use audio as an intermediate format like the 8-bit era tape drives did. As cleaning up this audio is the main gameplay mechanic here, it makes sense that that sentence refers to audio tapes specifically.