Lol played through 2 full times hoping it wasn't just in repeat haha
A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
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#212Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
#213Seems to use the psychological technique of intermittent rewards to encourage continued clicking of "stoke the fire." Unfortunately after about 4 stokings with no new developments in the game, I got bored and quit.
After two times stoking the fire the room changes from cold to mild. There is also a shivering stranger stumbling into the room. Of course you can still be bored by that, but it is not true, that there is no new development.
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#214A very nice game!
Another automatic click script, clicking the buttons only when necessary:
var checkAll = setInterval(function() { var bn = ['stoke','gather','traps']; for (var i=0; i<bn.length;i++) $('#'+bn[i]+'Button:not(.disabled)').click(); }, 500);
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had looked at the source and concluded the spaceship was just a file left from some other project. Damn, I should have played further.
It's really cool when you first find the alien alloy, but the spaceship sequence is pretty unexciting.
I found doging the ascii asteroids really cool.
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#216Fun but easily hacked if you change the class in DevTools to not be disabled, then click click clickity.
Isn't every javascript game easily hacked?
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alternatively, you should have an attention span not measured in seconds.
Thats mean! I was merely saying the opening needs to first 'earn' the right for my attention. I am surprised that you can get down-voted for suggestions.
How would you acclimate a player for a "slow" pace without starting slow?
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are aware that ALL Javascript is open source, aren't you? If you trust native code simply because it's open source, why don't you trust browser-interpreted code?
Being able to read the source is necessary for open source, but not sufficient.
If the source is available to the public it is open source. I may not have a copyleft license, but for that we have other terms like "Free Software".
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#219Re: A Dark Room - minimalist text-based game
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Being able to read the source is necessary for open source, but not sufficient.
If the source is available to the public it is open source. I may not have a copyleft license, but for that we have other terms like "Free Software".
> If the source is available to the public it is open source.
That's not the usual definition. The usual definition of "open source" revolves around having an open source license.
> I may not have a copyleft license, but for that we have other terms like "Free Software".
"Free Software" and "open source" are approximately equivalent (the FSF "free software" definition and the OSi standards for "open source" aren't identical, and there are probably some license that meet one but not the other, but they are close enough in practice that its not a huge difference.
"Copyleft" is a much narrower term than either "open source" or "free software". Most open source or free software licenses are not copyleft.