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Rephrasing this a bit, I do also find myself to enter my "work-mode" playing these types of brains, and I too would rather do paid work if it's going to be like
by adenozine 5y ago
Rephrasing this a bit, I do also find myself to enter my "work-mode" playing these types of brains, and I too would rather do paid work if it's going to be like that. It's not fun for me knowing that I'm essentially exploiting myself for no reason. I'd love a game like this however that developed niche skills. Maybe a game where you move your unit by writing a weird, complex bash script for something.
Or a game where you have to rewrite a perl one-liner in python before the bomb explodes or something. That could be sorta fun for me.
- monsieurbanana 5y agoHow about a game where you could work on your bot-programming skills?
- adenozine 5y agoI mean, if I I'm understanding what you mean by this, it just feels too much by productivity. Writing a service to read from and endpoint and calculate some probabilities and output some action, that's just work. It's not going to make me a better or worse programmer. Teaching someone bash-fu, helping programmers remember flags for grep or curl, these are useful skills that could be gamified just the same as bot/agent logic. I think too that these games always kinda fall into a state machine pattern. I don't need the expressiveness of javascript, the bot will end up being a state machine with different states, and it'll just churn through it's inputs. It's always kinda of the same ultimate end pattern.
- krallja 5y agoZachtronics games scratch this itch for me
- adenozine 5y agoI really enjoyed Baba is You. It's a bit puzzly, but intuitive enough for an older guy like me to keep up with. I've seen some of the Zachtronics games, I just haven't played them. My wife sort of inhibits the more "fruitless" hobbies of mine.