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Is it really a "game" if there's no goal or "win" condition? Or is it a "webtoy" or "simulation" (or... "sandbox". Think it's a sandbox).
It's a sandbox game indeed [1]. This is standard terminology. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_video_game_terms#S...
Wow! This thread brings back some fond memories. Long ago, I came across a tiny Java applet linked on Fark to a Japanese forum post. Everyone loved it but I found it annoyingly small. It was barely 300px x 400px. I had been coding my senior thesis in Java and had recently learned how to use a Java decompiler. So I downloaded the applet, decompiled it, spent a few minutes figuring out exactly where the dimensions were…
Wow, what a great look into internet history. Do you still have the original forum post? I wonder who the original author was.
[1] Original Fark thread: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-fl...
[2] My attempt to show others how to run this offline: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784666#c17784666
[3] My comment about the rehosted/recompiled 960x640 version: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/17784943#c17784943
[4] I'm smiling at Finger51's comment: Works great in FF1.5!
[5] My original blog entry a few days later: http://chir.ag/200512302250
[6] It's a bit sad that all the links to Digg, Reddit, and MSNBC are broken now. And I totally forgot about the traffic behemoth that delicious was! Here's a fixed version of the Reddit link, at least the page is up, even if the URL changed: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/21509/
Does this game have any objective? I didn't get it.
A nice bit of web programming. The smoke effects look cool. Pity solids don't conduct heat - the first thing I always try and do in these is boil a pot of water. If you've never seen this kind of thing before, the canonical PC example is The Powder Toy, which is so amazing I wish there a 3D Minecraft-like version. But it's really CPU-heavy even in 2d.
also.. mites don't reproduce..
My current map set up, paused. https://imgur.com/71p1H8W
A nice bit of web programming. The smoke effects look cool. Pity solids don't conduct heat - the first thing I always try and do in these is boil a pot of water. If you've never seen this kind of thing before, the canonical PC example is The Powder Toy, which is so amazing I wish there a 3D Minecraft-like version. But it's really CPU-heavy even in 2d.
Select Wall. Draw "bowl". Select Water. Drop water into bowl. Select Cloner. Click beneath bowl. Select Fire. Click beneath Cloner. Observe boiling water.
But when I put oil (in a separate compartment) beneath the bowl of water, and light it on fire, the oil burns off, but doesn't boil any water.
Nice work.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My point of view is that a game is something where you play within some parameters or structure.
Yes, rules are needed for a game. But is it enough? e.g. there are rules to writing a syntactically correct program; ways to drive a car; use a GUI. Does that make them games? If a user can make a game out of them, what do they add, to make it into a "game"? Is the thing added an objective of some kind (i.e. a win condition)?
No, it should also not be tied to some productive outcome, which this does not.