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It must have been the original "time only moves when you do".
by jlawson 6y ago
It must have been the original "time only moves when you do".
- musicale 6y agoDoes anyone recall how Ultima 1 works? Can you be attacked while you are standing still or do you have to make a move to clock the game? (I think the early Ultima games I've tried are 2 and 3, and I think enemies could attack you while you were standing still but I'm not entirely sure.)
- pvg 6y agoI think 1 is strictly turn based and in 2 and 3 a turn happens automatically if you do nothing for a few seconds.
- Shish2k 6y agoI’m pretty sure NetHack works that way (Perhaps the whole genre all the way back to the original Rogue, but nethack is the one that I’ve personally played)
- smabie 6y agoYes, of course, that's how they all work. A real time game wouldn't work over a tty.
- JoshTriplett 6y agoIt could on a reasonably good glass tty over a low-latency connection, just not on an old one over a high-latency connection.
- m463 6y agoI swear there was a real-time game I played over a tty long ago. An ascii shooter, maybe star trek or similar? At first I thought snake did it, but now I think that might have been move-countermove.
- davedx 6y agoMuds work over tty don’t they? I played a MUD for many years that was just as fast paced as Diablo
- jonny_eh 6y agoThat’s a super hot idea.
- 082349872349872 6y agoCrypt of the NecroDancer has a "you move only when time does" mechanic.