My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator

Post by pixelbath » Tue, Nov 15, 2022, 11:09 PM UTC

yamtaddle wrote: post #150

fsckboy wrote: post #149

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it predates TVTropes (Shakespeare did it), and it's called "a play-within-a-play" https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShowWithinAShow

Well, right, but that's not quite the same thing. Video games also do "show within a show", sometimes taking the form of an actual show (Address Unknown in Max Payne, and that other one that's plainly mimicking Lynch's Invitation to Love from Twin Peaks), or an actual play, as in Midsummer Night's(? I think it has the one with Thisby and such, right?) or Hamlet, which I wanna say at least one Final Fantasy has featur…

Post by yamtaddle » Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 12:39 AM UTC

pixelbath wrote: post #151

yamtaddle wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, right, but that's not quite the same thing. Video games also do "show within a show", sometimes taking the form of an actual show (Address Unknown in Max Payne, and that other one that's plainly mimicking Lynch's Invitation to Love from Twin Peaks), or an actual play, as in Midsummer Night's(? I think it has the one with Thisby and such, right?) or Hamlet, which I wanna say at least one Final Fantasy has featur…

There's also the linked "Game Within a Game" article linked from the above article: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameWithinAGame or the "Embedded Precursor" which is more specific about the embedded game: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EmbeddedPrecurso...

Post by anthk » Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

s-macke wrote: post #120

erwincoumans wrote: post #73

That's cool! Like playing classic Doom inside Doom 3. Is there a list of games that let you play older versions from within?

The adventure game "Day of the Tentacle" had the previous version of "Maniac Mansion" included. According to Wikipedia [1] it was the first time you could play the predecessor game in a newer version. The whole original Maniac Mansion game can be played on a computer resembling a Commodore 64 inside the Day of the Tentacle game; this practice has since been repeated by other game developers, but at the time of Day of…

Post by EntityUnknown » Wed, Nov 16, 2022, 10:45 AM UTC

lupire wrote: post #96

int_19h wrote: post #40

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Most likely, it is included in some kind of ThirdPartyNotices.txt that ships with the game. It's actually pretty hard to sneak third party F/OSS under the radar in the company of this size - there's automated code scanners, among other things, and while they can't catch everything, they sure can flag a copy of a public project on GitHub.

What's an example of tool that scans binaries for matches with open source software?