Holy crap. Reading that slowly is painful . Can you please give an option to make it instant, or at least speed it up 2x-3x?
Holding down enter speeds it up
Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
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Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#32Just let me play quicker. I got the point after the first example and then seemed like I had to watch endless examples (gave up before getting to the point where I could type the prompts)
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#33It's like Universal Paperclips with a plot. Neat.
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#34Isn't it kind of sad that we seem to have stopped writing science fiction that has any hope of a successful future? The moral of the story with Edgar seems to be to never leverage technology to do anything at all.
This untrue
Culver's uses ice cream machines
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#35A short but nice experience, with pleasant UI and a bit of fun of prompting. Thanks for sharing and good job :) Maybe try longer forms as well because maybe you might find yourself in writing scifi
Thanks for the kind words. I've dabbled!
https://boilingdown.ghost.io/deluge/
https://boilingdown.ghost.io/sunspot/
https://boilingdown.ghost.io/grow-up/
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#36In case anyone has not tried it, the Dyson Sphere Project on Steam is tremendous fun. A different spin on the Factorio gameplay loop. I completed it before combat was added, and enjoyed the low stress environment.
Been there, done that.
Nothing beats industrial Minecraft (in it's prime, which it isn't in atm as far as I konw) IMO.
Not even close, when considering the ability to add magic/farming/computer stuff.
Though Minetest[0] has some pretry cool packs.
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#37I don’t understand the game. I tapped the screen maybe 30 times and went through it typing to itself and failing and succeeding at different tasks. If I kept going would I eventually get to type something?
Who told you it's a game?
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#38It's like Universal Paperclips with a plot. Neat.
Somehow I loved U.P. but watching this reminds me of old text-based adventures with contrived arbitrary obstacles which would only be funny if you didn't spend many hours getting by them. Or a detective novel with an obscure unguessable resolution.
It's like training the three laws of robotics into something that communicates in literally and doesn't have any sense to be cooperative. But every now and then will let you know how it's being uncooperative by saying "btw, humanity's dead again." I guess I don't like hard puzzles that are hard for their own sake.
Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#39Re: Edgar, build a Dyson swarm
#40In case anyone has not tried it, the Dyson Sphere Project on Steam is tremendous fun. A different spin on the Factorio gameplay loop. I completed it before combat was added, and enjoyed the low stress environment.
If anyone is wondering, you can turn off combat if you want to experience the same low-stress building experience. I think I'd recommend that for a new player, there's a lot to figure out and enjoy even without gradually increasing threat levels from the dark fog. I enjoyed the new defense mechanics but the first couple run-throughs without them was also great. Just a different experience.