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Imagine a game like Dwarf Fortress... but passed on from father to son for centuries, each generation making the game bigger, richer, more complex. I suppose at

by umvi 5y ago

Imagine a game like Dwarf Fortress... but passed on from father to son for centuries, each generation making the game bigger, richer, more complex. I suppose at a certain point you'd have a game impossible to play in one lifetime.

Buttons840 5y ago
Each heir to the code would have to receive a PhD in mathematics, like their parents before.
- johnisgood 5y ago
  ...why? Just for the giggles?
Agentlien 5y ago
That sounds like a mix of DF and Crusader Kings.
ido 5y ago
Other than the father to son it sounds like nethack! First public release was 34 years ago and it has been under more or less active development since (with a few years-long periods of inactivity in the middle).
- deleted 5y ago
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shaunxcode 5y ago
It already exists and it’s called culture.
- johnisgood 5y ago
  And version control... ideally.
MildlySerious 5y ago
Then maybe the save files will be passed down in families as well.
robin_reala 5y ago
I’m now tempted to read The Glass Bead Game again, it’s been a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
- edanm 5y ago
  This was my immediate thought as well. I think it's been 20 years since I read it, too long.
- tetris11 5y ago
  I'm tempted to read Vernon Vinges's The Cookie Monster again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_%28novella%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_%28novella%...
bgro 5y ago
Developing or playing in 1 world? In school I remember finding project files students in the past had left on the servers. Mostly like digital art files. Sometimes papers or a miscopy from a flash drive or a small game. I thought that was cool, like uncovering artifacts from the past. Social media groups of the recent graduate classes were just starting at the time. A couple of times, I remember uncovering a couple years old discussion from my school after I went down the same path and wound up in that online space. They were just old enough to be seniors or still be friends of current students. There was also the flash games everyone played in computer classes. Everyone must’ve gone to the same few sites and played the same games. Just about everybody could probably relate to stories of playing flash games in the computer lab although there’s no real record to share of the sites are even still around. Anyway, I thought it’d be cool if there was a digital world designed around leaving notes and things like this. In Mario Maker, you can see where everyone died in the world. In dark souls, you can leave messages behind. I always thought it’d be interesting to see everyone who was in your position in a world like that somehow. Imagine the history of stats/deaths/playtime. The story of John Smith and the orange goblin skin with 14 deaths over 53 minutes, 14 seconds he played of jump hero 6 years ago. The English teacher still talks about that guy! There’s an educational Minecraft version now. If that was more than a trend and became a standard lesson for a week, it would be interesting to see a persistent world students from the past left behind with their trolling to each other, inside jokes, and houses temporary classmate friends built together. The teacher could show off their house from when they played as a student. In the last 20 years though, I wonder if this would have the same interest. There might just be too much online presence social media for anyone to care about the past worlds. It also might lose appeal if everything is from long-since graduates that feel distant to relate to instead of current seniors and recent college goers. It may also just get too crowded in the game world to make new things or have them actually stand out. I also wonder if trolls would just destroy the creations of the past— I think modifications are cool but just destroying everything would ruin the purpose.
- hacknewslogin 5y ago
  There is a digital world you might be interested in. https://www.yourworldoftext.com/ https://www.yourworldoftext.com/

by umvi 5y ago

Buttons840 5y ago

Each heir to the code would have to receive a PhD in mathematics, like their parents before.

johnisgood 5y ago
...why? Just for the giggles?

Agentlien 5y ago

That sounds like a mix of DF and Crusader Kings.

ido 5y ago

Other than the father to son it sounds like nethack! First public release was 34 years ago and it has been under more or less active development since (with a few years-long periods of inactivity in the middle).

deleted 5y ago
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shaunxcode 5y ago

It already exists and it’s called culture.

johnisgood 5y ago
And version control... ideally.

MildlySerious 5y ago

Then maybe the save files will be passed down in families as well.

robin_reala 5y ago

I’m now tempted to read The Glass Bead Game again, it’s been a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game

edanm 5y ago
This was my immediate thought as well. I think it's been 20 years since I read it, too long.
tetris11 5y ago
I'm tempted to read Vernon Vinges's The Cookie Monster again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_%28novella%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cookie_Monster_%28novella%...

bgro 5y ago

Developing or playing in 1 world? In school I remember finding project files students in the past had left on the servers. Mostly like digital art files. Sometimes papers or a miscopy from a flash drive or a small game. I thought that was cool, like uncovering artifacts from the past. Social media groups of the recent graduate classes were just starting at the time. A couple of times, I remember uncovering a couple years old discussion from my school after I went down the same path and wound up in that online space. They were just old enough to be seniors or still be friends of current students. There was also the flash games everyone played in computer classes. Everyone must’ve gone to the same few sites and played the same games. Just about everybody could probably relate to stories of playing flash games in the computer lab although there’s no real record to share of the sites are even still around. Anyway, I thought it’d be cool if there was a digital world designed around leaving notes and things like this. In Mario Maker, you can see where everyone died in the world. In dark souls, you can leave messages behind. I always thought it’d be interesting to see everyone who was in your position in a world like that somehow. Imagine the history of stats/deaths/playtime. The story of John Smith and the orange goblin skin with 14 deaths over 53 minutes, 14 seconds he played of jump hero 6 years ago. The English teacher still talks about that guy! There’s an educational Minecraft version now. If that was more than a trend and became a standard lesson for a week, it would be interesting to see a persistent world students from the past left behind with their trolling to each other, inside jokes, and houses temporary classmate friends built together. The teacher could show off their house from when they played as a student. In the last 20 years though, I wonder if this would have the same interest. There might just be too much online presence social media for anyone to care about the past worlds. It also might lose appeal if everything is from long-since graduates that feel distant to relate to instead of current seniors and recent college goers. It may also just get too crowded in the game world to make new things or have them actually stand out. I also wonder if trolls would just destroy the creations of the past— I think modifications are cool but just destroying everything would ruin the purpose.

hacknewslogin 5y ago
There is a digital world you might be interested in. https://www.yourworldoftext.com/ https://www.yourworldoftext.com/