For someone interested to try this out algorithmically: https://adventofcode.com/2018/day/17
Sandboxels
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#42This looks a lot like Powdertoy
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#43As a fan of both Neal and R74n this was an unexpected collaboration! I can highly recommend building your own falling sand simulator. It's really fun to see how such simple rules create emergent behaviors. Sand pixels try to move down, then diagonally down. Water does the same, then tries sideways. Me messing around with it eventually resulted in a game I'm now working on full time (think Noita meets Factorio): https…
This looks really cool. I'd love to read your dev blog if there is one?
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#44As a fan of both Neal and R74n this was an unexpected collaboration! I can highly recommend building your own falling sand simulator. It's really fun to see how such simple rules create emergent behaviors. Sand pixels try to move down, then diagonally down. Water does the same, then tries sideways. Me messing around with it eventually resulted in a game I'm now working on full time (think Noita meets Factorio): https…
Out of curiosity: Do you use a high level language (like C#) or do you have low level optimizations on (e.g. assembly level)?
I imagine that there has to be some kind of map that keeps track of which pixels are "active" and need to be updated, but I wonder how do that efficiently.
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#45I heated the water inside the hole of the letter 'd' and the steam escaped through the sand. <3
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#46> Instead of the original R74nCom/sandboxels repository, mods will now be submitted to R74nCom/Sandboxels-Mods. All existing mods have been moved over. Wait does that mean Sandboxels will become closed source?
It's not open source and, as far as I can see, this has been the license for at least 2 years https://github.com/R74nCom/sandboxels?tab=License-1-ov-file
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#47Wow, this is... kinda like the Noita engine but without the exploding yourself every 5 seconds. Probably going to spend the next several hours getting zero useful RL tasks done now, thanks again Neal.
Noita descends from the lineage of both Rogue and Falling Sand Game.
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#48> Instead of the original R74nCom/sandboxels repository, mods will now be submitted to R74nCom/Sandboxels-Mods. All existing mods have been moved over. Wait does that mean Sandboxels will become closed source?
It's not open source and, as far as I can see, this has been the license for at least 2 years https://github.com/R74nCom/sandboxels?tab=License-1-ov-file
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#49Created by R74N, not Neal. Has been live on http://sandboxels.r74n.com as an independent project for several years. Just now hosted by Neal. Important distinction.
R74N wrote about its new home here https://sandboxels.r74n.com/new-home
it doesn't answer the first question I have, which is basically "why". not in any sort of hostile sense, just that it would be very interesting to hear the back story behind this move.
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#50My geology classes certainly did not mention sedimentary layers consisting of glass, quicklime, ash, salt, gingerbread, melted butter, and toast, from bottom to top.
that's a grad student topic