This is pretty nerdy but c'mon, it's like Cookie Clicker or some other idle game when compared to Zachtronics titles.
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Kinda sad that the dev quitted
A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#72In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
It reminds me a bit of this book, which I recommend: Algorithms to live by.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#73In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
And civilization is a distributed operating system! (I heard this from Joscha Bach)
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's not really related in concept, but I feel like playing various puzzles with pentominoes would feel a bit similar to this, as it's spatial reasoning puzzles. I adore pentominoes and spent a large portion of my childhood playing with them, recently rediscovered them as an adult.
For me it was Tangrams, which I've only seen one somewhat odd (in a "feels outsourced" kind of way) computer game (not that you can really improve on the physical version). I first thought you said pantomimes, which could also be interesting :).
Definitely played with tangrams too, and funnily enough, I had a bunch of animal-shaped puzzles that I guess you could call pantomimes haha. If you enjoyed tangrams enough, I can't recommend enough picking up a set of pentominoes - definitely agree that a physical set is the right call. There's 12 total so you have 60 individual squares, (pentominoes are 5-square tiles), so popular figures are 6x10, 5x12 (a bit harder than 6x10), and 3x20 (very challenging). You can also get cubes and do 2x5x6 (really hard) or 3x4x5 (even harder).
Recently though, I've been doing 8x8 - 4, which means picking 4 squares to remove from an 8x8 square and then filling in the rest (I have some wooden boards i picked up from an etsy seller but you can just as easily trace the outline on paper and color in the forbidden cells, which I've also done). Which has been delightful!
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#75You 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/
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#76Give it a Tron skin and I'll play it for a whole day <3
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remove any processes with an hourglass from the queue, and frequently click the I/O Events button to clear out the hourglasses.
I think I was already doing that, yet by the time 4 processes in processor turn green, 10 processes in queue turns red? Also even in the first 10 seconds I was already clicking like mad, wasnt really "easy" mode. Maybe one of my extensions designed to skip "wait 10 sec to skip this" is messing up the timings of the game?
> Maybe one of my extensions designed to skip "wait 10 sec to skip this" is messing up the timings of the game?
Might be related to time accounting differences between browsers also... are you using firefox?
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#78In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
What is the operating system analogy for whacking off? Clearing the cache?
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#79Games 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…
Not sure what you are talking about. Nerdy Games have existed all the time, and they usually not very successful because they are so nerdy. In the last years, we also had a number of tech-nerdy games, but none of them could be called a hit. They probably make their game, but as the audience is naturally small, their ceiling for success is limited. And I don't see this changing in the future. It's probably the opposite, as the younger generation seems to become less nerdy, and more distanced from low-level topics and tech.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#80Fun, I wonder if anyone has done a garbage collection game. I'm imagining an isometric view, like Zaxxon, where you drive a garbage truck around and collect dead references.
Or maybe just fit it into Doom, equip a flamethrower, and burn the corpse of dead processes and their zombies. Not that we hadn't this already before in some way.