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Re: Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

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Post by linkdd »

Guthur wrote: post #8
krisoft wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t buy it then? Buy it only when it is out of early access if it ever will be? If you like chicken are you also infuriated by all the people who sell pork? It is not like the developer had a choice between selling a ready version today vs a not-so-ready version today and they choose to release the not-so-ready version.

I'm not sure how I could have been any clearer. I said I was not criticising the choice by the individual developer but rather voicing my frustration at the prevalence of that choice. I don't eat pork so I don't actually care about that particular market. And for the record I won't be, I generally don't buy EA.

I'd rather have a ton of Early Access games, where players can take part to the development of the game (by giving valuable feedback to the developers and funding the development), than AAA games that are released incomplete and full of bugs like the CyberPunk fiasco. Or have a third of the content, then the rest as DLC like Paradox or EA does.

Re: Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

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Post by colejohnson66 »

linkdd wrote: post #21
Guthur wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how I could have been any clearer. I said I was not criticising the choice by the individual developer but rather voicing my frustration at the prevalence of that choice. I don't eat pork so I don't actually care about that particular market. And for the record I won't be, I generally don't buy EA.

I'd rather have a ton of Early Access games, where players can take part to the development of the game (by giving valuable feedback to the developers and funding the development), than AAA games that are released incomplete and full of bugs like the CyberPunk fiasco. Or have a third of the content, then the rest as DLC like Paradox or EA does.

EA does seem to be used as a crutch by AAA games. “Look, we missed the deadline, but we’re releasing it anyways as an ‘early access,’ so don’t be mad if it sucks.” Maybe I’m just biased, but “indie” games that go early access make much more sense than AAA because it’s one person versus dozens or hundreds.

Re: Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

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Post by linkdd »

colejohnson66 wrote: post #22
linkdd wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd rather have a ton of Early Access games, where players can take part to the development of the game (by giving valuable feedback to the developers and funding the development), than AAA games that are released incomplete and full of bugs like the CyberPunk fiasco. Or have a third of the content, then the rest as DLC like Paradox or EA does.

EA does seem to be used as a crutch by AAA games. “Look, we missed the deadline, but we’re releasing it anyways as an ‘early access,’ so don’t be mad if it sucks.” Maybe I’m just biased, but “indie” games that go early access make much more sense than AAA because it’s one person versus dozens or hundreds.

Games should not be released in early access because of a missed deadline. It's part of the release cycle: alpha -> beta -> early access -> full release.

And you stay in early access as long as it's needed.

I've seen a lot of AAA games do the following "Look the game is not finished, but we need the money, don't worry you'll be able to pay the rest as DLC"

Re: Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

Guthur wrote: post #8
krisoft wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don’t buy it then? Buy it only when it is out of early access if it ever will be? If you like chicken are you also infuriated by all the people who sell pork? It is not like the developer had a choice between selling a ready version today vs a not-so-ready version today and they choose to release the not-so-ready version.

I'm not sure how I could have been any clearer. I said I was not criticising the choice by the individual developer but rather voicing my frustration at the prevalence of that choice. I don't eat pork so I don't actually care about that particular market. And for the record I won't be, I generally don't buy EA.

Why should or would this infuriate you?

Re: Game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits

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Post by tromp »

shireboy wrote: post #11

This looks pretty neat. I assume you only beat the game when you use the computer you create to create a game where you build a CPU and assembly language from circuits?

Like this Life in Life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

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