Found a small bug i think. If i assign a process to the cpu just when it dies (during the fly anmiation i guess) the game freezes (Cannot click any buttons anymore). https://i.imgur.com/4gbwwEZ.png
Thanks for your report. It is fixed now! :)
A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
somehow I ended up in Neuroscience, where I get to use the electronics skills occasionally, but even that is mostly focused on ASIC design now.
Well now ASIC design is an even more niche EE application. How does someone in neuroscience end up needing those skills? Did you Major in EE in undergrad?
Yep, undergrad in EE. I don’t do our semiconductor design but interface with teams of engineers to make tools for biology.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe I'm missing something in your post but I find the same types of games have been popular for many decades now. I'm not sure those are any less likely to succeed, or that "You're the OS!" is more likely to succeed. And I'm pretty sure you can make this game in Unity...
Not only could you make this in Unity, it'd probably be easier than in Pygame by a good margin. Game tech is basically universal for zero-graphics games like this, it's 100% "business logic". If you have to fight with the UI/display system for even a moment to make a game like this, then you're probably either using a library without enough features (which, ahem...Pygame, yeah...) or you just don't know the system we…
So, as someone with considerable Python knowledge but no gamedev knowledge, what would your suggestion be for me?
Specifically, I want to have some fun developing a few game ideas into at least prototypes. I never really had time to do a proper analysis of Pygame, Godot, Unity etc.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#124I love the idea. The interface is not friendly to people with bad eyesight, though. It would be better if you could tab to change what you were looking at and make those things bigger.
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#125You 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.
windows 98 SE had the coolest disk defragmentation animation. it felt wrong when it just never reappeared.
I found jkdefrag, and it was dot based instead of block based. Now that became the coolest - until it was discontinued... Now hard to find... But, mydefrag has become the best defragmenter.
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#126I’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 a…
Human Resource Machine is great! My wife ended up having a career change into coding after finishing it and the sequel