[Aauuggh! Ninja'd by Josh himself! OK, let's see how I did, anyway.... :D ] It might be worthwhile here to compare how Josh reports he's working on the highly procedural Limit Theory to how a more typical computer game gets made. Most games have fixed stories and are made by a team of people with va...

Grumblesaur wrote:By the way, the entire moderator team is Josh's personal elite cyborg guard. Just_Ice is our most recent assimilation

Josh == SHODAN?

Earth forces, alert! The dis$3#{*rioptimum has been co^&5+^%!#...

"I prefer a quiet station, thank you."

I quite like the idea of codexs describing the history of civilizations lost, regressed, or current. However, where you definitely had me at: I would love to explore planets not just for the eye candy or purchases - but stumbling over procedural ruins NATIVE to that system (not just world) - and rea...

scousematt, that was one of the (many) things I loved about the original Civilization. Consider these two things: 1. Josh has said, when you start a new game, the AI he's designing might let him generate the initial socio-techno-econo-political structure of the galaxy by seeding multiple sapient rac...

This might be a good time to mention how utterly and completely baffled I am that LT didn't appear in RPS's enormous three-part ultromegalist of games they're looking forward to seeing in 2014. Not just the RPS hivemind, but virtually every commenter, every time they mention one of the update videos...

Fair enough, alpan. I've got a BS meter of my own, which goes off like mad at the "post-modernist" "critical studies" gibberish that recent college grads have been indoctrinated to use. To each their own. I'll just say that, while I can't speak for him, I feel pretty sure that Raph's wish for games ...

That is one of the most hideous websites I've ever seen. With an initial copyright date of 1999, I think it's safe to say the author created the site before people starred trying to read it on a smartphone.... But hey, at least it's not shoving screen-obscuring pop-up ads in front of the non-resiza...

Cornflakes_91 wrote:DWM is not so... omnipresent as gazz...

...that you know of.

I've been poking my nose into this Brewer palette thingie. The author seems... quite authoritative.

That said, the palettes suggested do seem like they'd help keep color values distinct. I have a need for that in one of my ongoing projects.

Thanks for posting about this!

For an anti-turtle, the greatest danger would come from within himself.

Raph Koster is worth listening to. He has experience, understanding, and the ability to communicate fairly deep design ideas clearly. I am reading Raph Kosters book "Theory of Fun for Game Design", Second Edition edition (with color pictures!!!!). Maybe the word "theory" does not sound fun for some ...

The thing is, these simulation games (is that the right word?) can actually be a lot of fun. In the kind of fun they offer they're not all that different from Microsoft Flight Simulator, which was a blast for many years. But they do still need to be... you know... coherent. Rational. This one might ...

Line 846: e.g = -e.g HA. HA. HA. There is probably something very, very wrong with me that I found this hilarious. How one puny, stinkin' little character can utterly wreck your beautiful logic that ABSOLUTELY SHOULD WORK BUT DOESN'T. Because I have been there. In fact, I've been on both sides of t...

It's just that <1% of the customer base is going to attempt and pull through with anything as complex as in your picture. Probably accurate. The content consumers always far outnumber the content creators. The value of this feature does go up if program creators are able to distribute their code fo...

Speaking of playing around in space... are you a turtle?

(Georgie Gobel wanted to know, too.)