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Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

dextersgenius wrote: post #16

You 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.

windows 98 SE had the coolest disk defragmentation animation. it felt wrong when it just never reappeared.

Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by smokel »

shove wrote: post #4

Very cool. Reminds me of the game posted last week (defcon thing?) in which Tetris-block-like squares containing op codes fall and the user has to position Rube Goldberg sequences that shuffle the biggest possible number into the “score” memory register

For those interested, that was OFRAK Tetris: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37083309

Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by runnerup »

dextersgenius wrote: post #16

You 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.

https://classic.csunplugged.org/activities/community-activit... (see also: https://www.itgsnews.com/the-defragmentation-game-lesson-pla... )

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/376284/defrag

https://www.defraggame.com

There used to be a few old ones in the day that I recall trying which were a bit more direct simulacrums than these. Not sure if anyone else might find them!

Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by SilasX »

smountjoy wrote: post #14

I like to imagine that, as in Ender's Game, the top-ranked player is unknowingly allocating memory for some critical infrastructure somewhere.

“To compete your registration, tell us whether this image has a stop sign. And hurry it up, our self driving car needs this.”

https://xkcd.com/1897/

Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by MatthewCampbell »

dextersgenius wrote: post #16

You 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.

https://defrag.lolalabs.com/

Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by zogrodea »

duxup wrote: post #11
keyle wrote: post #3

Games 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 remember, as a child, having fun with a Yoshi (from Mario) fangame that pretended like he was in Windows 95/98. It might have been this one. https://youtu.be/AwZfivyZ20c?t=184

Re: A video game where you are an operating system

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Post by iforgotpassword »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #51
dextersgenius wrote: post #16

You 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.

windows 98 SE had the coolest disk defragmentation animation. it felt wrong when it just never reappeared.

It looked exactly the same as 98 and 95, there was nothing changed.
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