The keen game in my time ( circa 1978 ) was just a text level to and fro called "Adventure".
Was that what we called Colossal cave?
Probably. It was certainly an underground setting. I'd also seen it later under the title of "Spelunker" but by then the plot had morphed a bit. It's a neat example of a state machine actually ( it 'remembers' the history of it's inputs ) and so one can just add new state and transitions between. One can enact some screwy features like 'one-way-ness' - you can't go out the way you came in - and all sorts of non-Euclidean topology.
For a revved up and full GUI 'descendant' of this genre : there is a recent game called Antichamber which I have, but haven't solved it. It has Mobius strip & Klein bottle behaviours plus many more and the views are from the 'inside' of the topologies. So one doesn't gain that lovely text book aspect where all is self evident. I also suspect that some topology is created depending on my inputs : a reactive maze if you like. I say 'suspect' as how do you prove that from within the game? Now that's a bit crazy and self-referential for sure, but I think that's a good guess on the designer's mindset ie. he/she/they are clinically evil ! One really neat aspect is that unlike most first person games you can't just run around and trigger things randomly and hope for a meaningful result. If you don't think it out you will go around forever. No, sorry. You won't. Did I mention that there is a countdown clock ? You get booted out in ninety minutes or less if not solved. There is only one in-game save slot. The key thing is that it is all quite consistent and logical but merely not of this universe's topology. Don't play it if your frustration/aggression threshold is low because you get a lot of 'computer says no' ... :-) ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) BTW with respect to Mobius strips : from the outside if an asymmetric figure - and for a planar object this means it has a handedness - traverses one circuit then the asymmetry sense is flipped. But from the figure's point of view on the inside it is the environment which has flipped eg. features on the left and right sides are swapped. Go around once more and all returns to the original sense !! So yeah, this is not a game for the short-fused.
( edit ) Oh and the visuals are simply gorgeous.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Back from an LAN-programming-party. Good 36 houres of fun and science.
The result: An new research project will enter BOINC in 2015.
Whatever, happy new year to you.
[My year started bad, my grandma is back to hospital. The medics don´t know whats happening. :| Looks like an special tuberculosis, I guess. :(
We are waiting for the details.]
Back from an LAN-programming-party. Good 36 houres of fun and science.
The result: An new research project will enter BOINC in 2015.
Whatever, happy new year to you.
[My year started bad, my grandma is back to hospital. The medics don´t know whats happening. :| Looks like an special tuberculosis, I guess. :(
We are waiting for the details.]
Sorry to hear, Aurel. I hope she gets better soon.
My father programmed in cobol for the University of Illinois back in the 70s. Their system also had that StarTrek game, which he occasionally let me play when he had to go in on a Saturday and took me with him. I usually did stupid things like fly into a supernova. Battles with Klingons seemed unfair to me because you would get one turn to either shoot one of them or try to move away, and then each of them would get a turn to shoot at you and by the time it was your turn again you had been destroyed. Once I got into a situation where I wasn't dead, but the Enterprise didn't have enough energy left to even self destruct. Not an actor.
At some point in that job or his next one, he got into something called Mark IV. There was an elite user's group called the IV League. They pronounced IV "ivy" but my twist on that was "eye vee"... implying that they were so crazy they needed IV medication and/or sedation. Not a writer (author, but not TV writer).
In the realm of text games, I spent plenty of time exploring all the possibilities of Leather Goddesses of Phobos (ever try it opposite sex?). Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was also good, although the "hints off" command didn't work, which meant I couldn't stop myself reading the hints to solve the game.
I had a friend who had Ultima IV (on double sided 5.25" floppies for Apple), which we played together. I think we both got V (for PC) when it came out. Then I bought a complete Ultima collection containing I through VI or so. I figured I'd start at the beginning and go though the whole series. I could never find the end of I; did it even have an end? I lost interest and never moved on to II.
At some point I bought Lode Runner for PC and managed to get through it (all keyboard, no joystick), at the cost of some carpal tunnel strain.
I also had a collection of classic arcade games (Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, a few others) on a CD for Windows. The original program code had been read right off the game console ROMs, and the bugs were NOT fixed.
You guys are now deliberately ignoring my mystery person, aren't you?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
You guys are now deliberately ignoring my mystery person, aren't you?
I never really had a clue anyway, my one guess was based strictly on your thread title and seeing or reading something about Apollo astronauts, 13 made sense so I Googled the name of the guy Tom Hanks played and posted it.
RE: RE: Earthquake: 3.9
San Pedro isn't near enough to me to have been the cause... I just woke up and couldn't get back to sleep... Been up since 2 AM - PST!!! :-(
I hope I can keep awake through 'til midnight tonight...
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: RE: The keen game in
Probably. It was certainly an underground setting. I'd also seen it later under the title of "Spelunker" but by then the plot had morphed a bit. It's a neat example of a state machine actually ( it 'remembers' the history of it's inputs ) and so one can just add new state and transitions between. One can enact some screwy features like 'one-way-ness' - you can't go out the way you came in - and all sorts of non-Euclidean topology.
For a revved up and full GUI 'descendant' of this genre : there is a recent game called Antichamber which I have, but haven't solved it. It has Mobius strip & Klein bottle behaviours plus many more and the views are from the 'inside' of the topologies. So one doesn't gain that lovely text book aspect where all is self evident. I also suspect that some topology is created depending on my inputs : a reactive maze if you like. I say 'suspect' as how do you prove that from within the game? Now that's a bit crazy and self-referential for sure, but I think that's a good guess on the designer's mindset ie. he/she/they are clinically evil ! One really neat aspect is that unlike most first person games you can't just run around and trigger things randomly and hope for a meaningful result. If you don't think it out you will go around forever. No, sorry. You won't. Did I mention that there is a countdown clock ? You get booted out in ninety minutes or less if not solved. There is only one in-game save slot. The key thing is that it is all quite consistent and logical but merely not of this universe's topology. Don't play it if your frustration/aggression threshold is low because you get a lot of 'computer says no' ... :-) ;-)
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) BTW with respect to Mobius strips : from the outside if an asymmetric figure - and for a planar object this means it has a handedness - traverses one circuit then the asymmetry sense is flipped. But from the figure's point of view on the inside it is the environment which has flipped eg. features on the left and right sides are swapped. Go around once more and all returns to the original sense !! So yeah, this is not a game for the short-fused.
( edit ) Oh and the visuals are simply gorgeous.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Back from an
Back from an LAN-programming-party. Good 36 houres of fun and science.
The result: An new research project will enter BOINC in 2015.
Whatever, happy new year to you.
[My year started bad, my grandma is back to hospital. The medics don´t know whats happening. :| Looks like an special tuberculosis, I guess. :(
We are waiting for the details.]
RE: Back from an
Sorry to hear, Aurel. I hope she gets better soon.
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
+1
+1
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
The doctors said that she had
The doctors said that she had an pulmonary embolism (sry. that can´t happen normaly because she has an rare ITP. (see the link)
She need to spend more than 2 weeks in the hospital. They maked an CT and MRT to get more details about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_thrombocytopenic_purpura
My father programmed in cobol
My father programmed in cobol for the University of Illinois back in the 70s. Their system also had that StarTrek game, which he occasionally let me play when he had to go in on a Saturday and took me with him. I usually did stupid things like fly into a supernova. Battles with Klingons seemed unfair to me because you would get one turn to either shoot one of them or try to move away, and then each of them would get a turn to shoot at you and by the time it was your turn again you had been destroyed. Once I got into a situation where I wasn't dead, but the Enterprise didn't have enough energy left to even self destruct.
Not an actor.
At some point in that job or his next one, he got into something called Mark IV. There was an elite user's group called the IV League. They pronounced IV "ivy" but my twist on that was "eye vee"... implying that they were so crazy they needed IV medication and/or sedation.
Not a writer (author, but not TV writer).
In the realm of text games, I spent plenty of time exploring all the possibilities of Leather Goddesses of Phobos (ever try it opposite sex?). Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was also good, although the "hints off" command didn't work, which meant I couldn't stop myself reading the hints to solve the game.
I had a friend who had Ultima IV (on double sided 5.25" floppies for Apple), which we played together. I think we both got V (for PC) when it came out. Then I bought a complete Ultima collection containing I through VI or so. I figured I'd start at the beginning and go though the whole series. I could never find the end of I; did it even have an end? I lost interest and never moved on to II.
At some point I bought Lode Runner for PC and managed to get through it (all keyboard, no joystick), at the cost of some carpal tunnel strain.
I also had a collection of classic arcade games (Pac Man, Ms. Pac Man, Galaga, a few others) on a CD for Windows. The original program code had been read right off the game console ROMs, and the bugs were NOT fixed.
You guys are now deliberately ignoring my mystery person, aren't you?
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Good afternoon everyone. :-)
Good afternoon everyone. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
ARG... Did you ever used
ARG...
Did you ever used Windows PowerShell? I´m trying to sieve primes with the following code:
filter get-test-primzahlen { $limit = ($_/2 +1); for ($i =2; $i -lt $limit;$i++) { if (($_ % $i) -eq 0) {return} } $_ } @(110000..120000) | get-test-primzahlenIf I type an number higher than 10^10, PS give me an error. "could not combile to system.int32"
One of the problems is the max. memory: [4 GB!!!]
System.OutOfMemoryExceptionOkay, I´ll use Pari...(no one can programm it...GRRRRRR)
The reason why math is not easy, first world problems...
RE: You guys are now
I never really had a clue anyway, my one guess was based strictly on your thread title and seeing or reading something about Apollo astronauts, 13 made sense so I Googled the name of the guy Tom Hanks played and posted it.