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Seedship – Text-Based Game

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Re: Seedship – Text-Based Game

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Post by ntnbr »

infl8ed wrote: post #24

First time hearing about this game but enjoyed it a lot. If you squint hard enough it reminds me of my favourite text game A Dark Room https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/

I love A Dark Room. Spent way too much time speedrunning that game, lol.

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sevg wrote: post #22

Spoilers. https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?blmOrxj... My settlers became an immigrant population on a planet with native aliens. But it worked out in the end! “ They spend their time pursuing art, leisure, and spiritual fulfilment, while automatic machines take care of their material needs.”

I somehow ended up with an interesting combination of medieval-tech cosmic enlightenment along with friendly iron age native neighbours.

https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html?bmmopfi...

I hadn't played the game in a while but I used to play it quite a bit some years ago. The game is rather RNG-heavy, and although you can usually pick your poison, luck is a large factor in how good a result you can get.

If you aim for the best possible result on each run individually, in a sense the game is about exploration vs. exploitation, or whether to settle with what you've got or try your luck for more.

(If you want to aim for record scores overall, it probably makes sense to take high risks and fail lots of runs.)

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haversine02 wrote: post #45

I've always wished the planet descriptions weren't so dry, the RNG generates some pretty compelling combinations sometimes. So I spared an hour or so and vibecoded this quick tampermonkey extension for the game. It scrapes the page and assembles a prompt from planet stats for AI image generators. Try it out if you wanna give it a try, it supports both Gemini and OpenAI API, or you can just copy the prompt it generate…

A link to just play your version would be awesome.

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derbOac wrote: post #21

I've played this game a lot over the years. I wish there were more like it but I haven't found anything quite the same. I liked the earlier version of it more though. Although the newer version has some interesting encounters, it feels less "natural" to me than the earlier version, like it's been made more difficult for its own sake.

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