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As an aspiring game dev, I can't help but click on these posts haha :) The art in the trailers is beautiful, and I like the programming theme. One thing I can'

As an aspiring game dev, I can't help but click on these posts haha :) The art in the trailers is beautiful, and I like the programming theme. One thing I can't figure out is how much of that programming theme is simply used as a muse (portal) and how much of it is intended to teach the player something about computers (redstone in Minecraft). For example, "every single environmental feature, including power grids, locked doors and even huge enemy spawning machines are all powered by intricate, interconnected logic gate circuitry." does that mean the game will implicitly teach the player about basic rules of logic? Demorgan's and so forth? Another bit that caught my interest was "the game’s entire narrative takes place within 1 second of real time." Is there user / system time as well? Or is this just a plot point?

SonOfLilit 6y ago
In this thread, laktak posted an interview that includes a gameplay demo that shows basic interaction with the logic gates. It doesn't look on the redstone side of the spectrum, sadly.
- jtms 6y ago
  That’s a shame - building logic gates from scratch in red stone was pure joy and absolutely changed the way I think about computers
  - em-bee 6y ago
    yup, fond memories from my highschool computer classes. we built logic gates with transistors on handcrafted wooden circuit boards. i don't think i realized the implications then, but over time as i learned programming and other things about computers, i always felt that it gave me a better understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes. in particular it drives home the reason for why computers work in binary
    - jtms 6y ago
      Wow, I wish I had been exposed to this stuff in high school - I had already gotten well into my professional career when I found "Code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software" by Charles Petzold and it was just eureka moment after eureka moment reading that and then building the gates, adders, memory, etc from the diagrams in the book via redstone. One of my favorite learning experiences of all time!

SonOfLilit 6y ago

In this thread, laktak posted an interview that includes a gameplay demo that shows basic interaction with the logic gates. It doesn't look on the redstone side of the spectrum, sadly.

jtms 6y ago
That’s a shame - building logic gates from scratch in red stone was pure joy and absolutely changed the way I think about computers
- em-bee 6y ago
  yup, fond memories from my highschool computer classes. we built logic gates with transistors on handcrafted wooden circuit boards. i don't think i realized the implications then, but over time as i learned programming and other things about computers, i always felt that it gave me a better understanding of what actually goes on behind the scenes. in particular it drives home the reason for why computers work in binary
  - jtms 6y ago
    Wow, I wish I had been exposed to this stuff in high school - I had already gotten well into my professional career when I found "Code: the hidden language of computer hardware and software" by Charles Petzold and it was just eureka moment after eureka moment reading that and then building the gates, adders, memory, etc from the diagrams in the book via redstone. One of my favorite learning experiences of all time!