The Roguelike he's talking about has been his main focus for a few years now and he recently made the announcement that he's been stealth developing it in a real office with a real team. The real company in question: https://x.com/BitshiftEnt
But now he's apparently wondering if the fact that people really really want a minecraft 2 should affect his goals.
That really doesn't make your point.
"I guess so" is the absolute opposite of what a hawk would say. "I guess so" is what the comment you're replying to is still implying he'd say.
I have no idea if they edited this in later or you removed it but just pointing this out:
> not a 60's style pacifist
Kanji's a lot less daunting when you realize they're words not letters.They convey ideas instead of sounds (heck they don't even really convey a single sound considering the number of readings)
Don't know what he wanted to talk about, but here's one I remembered off hand:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-machine
All the old Infocom games were ported to this Engine and its existence is why they're so wonderfully well preserved nowadays and can be played in a really playable form with Frotz
The oriignal MUD was an engine, and there are hundreds of derivatives of MUD that are also engines, I recommend Richard Bartle's book for a really good history of it, I think it's free online.
> MUD was programmed in MACRO-10 assembler on a
DecSystem-10 mainframe at Essex University, England, in the
fall of 1978. Its author was a talented Computer Science
undergraduate, Roy Trubshaw. Version I was a simple test
program to establish the basic principles by which a shared
world could be maintained. When it worked, Roy immediately
started on version II, a text-based virtual world that would be instantly recognizable as such even today. It was also written in MACRO-10, a decision that led to its becoming increasingly unwieldy as more and more features were added. Because of this, in the fall of 1979 Roy made the decision to begin work on version III of the game. He split it in two: The game engine was written in BCPL (the fore-runner of C); the game world was written in a language of his own devising, MUDDL (Multi-User Dungeon Definition Language). The idea was that multiple worlds could be constructed in UDDL but would run on the same, unmodified engine (which was effectively an interpreter).
Not only is it clearly the same content generation process as modern engines, he even called it an engine. (this book is from 2005 IIRC but I think it's mostly a moot point what they're named)
PLATO:
> There had been graphical virtual worlds before.
The seminal PLATO (Programmed Logic for Automatic
Teaching Operations) system went live at the University of
Illinois way back in 1961, and many games were written to take
advantage of both its network connectivity and graphics-
capable plasma display units. Some of these laid down principles
that would greatly influence the development of later computer
games; some came close to being virtual worlds; some actually
were virtual worlds.
Orthanc, by Paul Resch, Larry Kemp, and Eric Hagstrom, was an
overhead-view graphical game that, although not implementing
a shared world, nevertheless allowed communication between
individual players. It was written as early as 1973. Jim
Schwaiger’s 1977 game Oubliette (inspired by Dungeons &
Dragons and Chuck Miller’s earlier multiplayer game, Mines of
Moria) had a first-person point of view and used line graphics to
render the scene ahead. It had persistent characters, but was
not a persistent world. Also, the interaction it allowed between
characters was very limited; it was almost there, but not quite.
In late 1979, the first ever fully-functional graphical virtual
world was released: Avatar. Written by a group of students to
out-do Oubliette, it was to become the most successful PLATO
game ever—it accounted for 6% of all the hours spent on the
system between September 1978 and May 198517. Again using a
Fantasy setting, it introduced the concept of spawning to
repopulate areas automatically after players killed all the
monsters.
first you need to learn assembly, second you can start by downloading ghidra and directly start decompiling some simple things you use and seeing what they do.
Tokyo Godfathers is an amazing and deeply human christmas comedy about homeless people in the Tokyo streets, filled with magical moments of cinematography.
Paprika is a less lighthearted story about inner lives, dreams and ambitions set across a sci fi backdrop where people are learning to enter each other's dreams and link them together. It has gorgeous dreamscapes and an amazing soundtrack as well as a fascinating plot and interesting characters.
Thre's also Makoto Shinkai's movies, which have good cinematography and interesting themes and soundtrack, as well as somewhat interesting characters (though a bit samey). Your Name is excellent, with Weathering with You and Suzume being good but not great. 5 Centimeters per second is nice as well. Children who chase lost voices underground is his most Ghibli movie and I'd say it definitely gets the tone and aesthetics right for the Nausica/Mononoke era of Ghibli.
On the Ghibli side, I quite enjoyed Studio Ponoc's Modest Heroes, which was a collection of shorts by Studio Ponoc (which has some Ghibli Veterans in it as well as younger talent I believe). Kanini and Kanino has the adventure elements and aesthetics, Life ain't gonna lose has the small child PoV element, Invisible has the social elements.
It simulates the repo in terms of branches and commits in a graph in the background and introduces every basic command. It also provides exercises in terms of "make A look like B" to prove you understand it.
I kind of already use ChatGPT to surface things because Google's become absolutely useless if you don't know the exact thing you're already looking for.
But Bing has generally been garbage because it just picks a random keyword and reads the first ten links and summarizes them instead of what I'd generally want it to do, hallucinate an answer and verify it against a search result.
I feel like the bit flags structure of this event isn't Javascript-y because javascript doesn't support int primitives. Wonder why they didn't translate it.