Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let's up the stakes and use a real production storage in the game
An even more specific version of DOOM for sysadmins, then?
psDooM is what you need: a FPS to frag system processes
A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#102In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
What is the operating system analogy for whacking off? Clearing the cache?
Garbage Collection
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#103You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It's basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old/archive file types towards the inner tracks. I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.
Wilmot's Warehouse is basically this.
It's top-down 2D. You are alone in a large, empty warehouse. At regular intervals, a truck drops off a load of assorted objects at the back, and a few people ask you for some specific objects at the counter in front. Your role is to arrange the objects in the warehouse such that you can fill the requests in the least amount of time, and you can do this in any way that works for you (by color, function, name, etc).
As the game goes on, the truck drops off more and more different kinds of objects (usually ones that fit into more than one category), and the requests get more and more complicated.
At the end you get a time-lapse of the whole warehouse over the whole game and you can see your strategy evolving over time.
Pretty well executed and simple. Heard about it from one of its devs in a HN comment actually.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#104Total nostalgia for the days when an OS cared about the user. Moving memory pages around is all well and good, but a realworld OS has far more important functions than responding to the demands of the user. I suggest adding a dimension whereby the player must respond to the wishes of the OS creator/owner. Have the OS be asked to inject ads into content. The OS could slowly depreciate itself in order to upsell the user on the next version. The OS should detect un-friendly activity by the user and brick itself and/or report the user as a "pirate". Or the OS could be asked to respond to FBI/NSA requests to spy on the user.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remove any processes with an hourglass from the queue, and frequently click the I/O Events button to clear out the hourglasses.
I think I was already doing that, yet by the time 4 processes in processor turn green, 10 processes in queue turns red? Also even in the first 10 seconds I was already clicking like mad, wasnt really "easy" mode. Maybe one of my extensions designed to skip "wait 10 sec to skip this" is messing up the timings of the game?
I saw the same with no extensions. My only hope was to do custom mode and give myself more cpus and lower I/O probability.
Edit: Also, keyboard shortcuts would be really, really nice.
Edit2: Also, the "menu" button in the top right isn't clickable (unless I resize) because the "Follow drfreckles" and "add to collection" buttons overlay it.
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#107Reminds me of this game where you are a paper clip factory: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#108Reminds me of this game where you are a paper clip factory: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972227 (not only discussed, but also plenty of "if you liked, you'll also enjoy" recommendations in there to further dissolve time into a blur)
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think I was already doing that, yet by the time 4 processes in processor turn green, 10 processes in queue turns red? Also even in the first 10 seconds I was already clicking like mad, wasnt really "easy" mode. Maybe one of my extensions designed to skip "wait 10 sec to skip this" is messing up the timings of the game?
> Maybe one of my extensions designed to skip "wait 10 sec to skip this" is messing up the timings of the game? Might be related to time accounting differences between browsers also... are you using firefox?
Edge (sorry)
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Maybe one of my extensions designed to skip "wait 10 sec to skip this" is messing up the timings of the game? Might be related to time accounting differences between browsers also... are you using firefox?
Edge (sorry)
Fine for me on edge. Maybe don't wait for processes to go totally green? If something is dark red/frozen it needs to be on the CPU immediately, regardless of what else is there.