Aren't we are the operating system and the main character in all the game?
A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
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#23This is pretty nerdy but c'mon, it's like Cookie Clicker or some other idle game when compared to Zachtronics titles.
TIS-100 is certainly far up there in "nerdiest game" rankings, and I must offer Bombe as well, the only game I know of that embeds Z3: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/
I think Core War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War) is even nerdier, too bad there's no updated, polished implementation.
P.S: I'm also a big fan of Zachtronics games: TIS-100, Shenzen I/O etc etc
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#24I selected easy and still got fed so many processes I cant possibly satisfy them all for more than a minute. What am I doing wrong?
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#25I like to imagine that, as in Ender's Game, the top-ranked player is unknowingly allocating memory for some critical infrastructure somewhere.
Getting Severance vibes.
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#26Games like these have a strong future. Basically games that innovate beyond what a game engines like Unity or Unreal can offer are, by design, going in a direction that is more likely to succeed than anything we see come out these days... Making super nerdy games that are so far off the field the engines users can't touch you, puts you in a different league; even if your game looks like a dog's breakfast, as long as…
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...
I'm guessing they are used to the default Unity 3D scene and player controller.
Unity can create any type of game. In the end it's just helping you push vertices and shaders around.
I do agree Unreal has it's roots more in 3D character shooters. A lot of assumptions built in but you can still work around them there too.
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#27I selected easy and still got fed so many processes I cant possibly satisfy them all for more than a minute. What am I doing wrong?
Remove any processes with an hourglass from the queue, and frequently click the I/O Events button to clear out the hourglasses.
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#28You 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.
Sort of the opposite of Breakout.
Or the opposite of a particular type of block-tapping mobile game, like these on Android/iOS:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=clear.tap.geom... https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tap-away-3d/id1568058543
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#29You 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.
I felt that way about PCB routing and layout when I was building electronics.
Might make a good career then.
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#30In idea, this reminds of the old game Core Wars and its special "Red Code" programming language.