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Wouldn’t want to be the one digging those tunnels. Bad enough digging tunnels when you don’t intend them to collapse.

a9h74j 5y ago
A First-Person Tunneler would probably also make for a boring video game. Wait, does the word 'boring' come from the drugdery of digging tunnels?
- psyc 5y ago
  Ahem. There was this little indie game that sort of took over the world in 2010 and made its creator a billionaire…
  - a9h74j 5y ago
    I was picturing looking at a screen of solid rock. The indie game I assume added a lot beyond that.
    - sudosysgen 5y ago
      Most of the time is indeed spent looking at rock, at least back then.
    - psyc 5y ago
      https://youtu.be/IwMSjcVFXbQ?t=238 https://youtu.be/IwMSjcVFXbQ?t=238 It adds more things than I will ever learn how to do. But you still spend loooooots of time looking at a screen of 16x16 gray textures that are suggestive of rock.
      - a9h74j 5y ago
        OMG. I've always seen people doing surface navigation or at most surface digging in Minecraft. I never made the connection to possibly blasting away rocks while below surface.
        psyc 5y ago
        Loot gets better and rarer the deeper you go. It’s a basic slot machine. You spend 5 minutes on whack whack whack whack poof, and every once in a while … Diamond Jackpot!
        krisoft 5y ago
        There is a reason it is called “mine” craft. “The name was a combination of the words mine, for mining ore in shafts, and craft, as in building or creating something.” Quote from here: https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/ https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    Ahem. Allow me to introduce you to the most fun you can have with a single monitor and shared keyboard. https://dosgames.com/game/tunneler/ https://dosgames.com/game/tunneler/ Try it out with a physically proximal friend.
    - _0ffh 5y ago
      Having been part of a clique who spent a lot of times playing Tank Wars* I wonder how I could have missed this variant! * I even made a basic Tank Wars clone from scratch in one day because of a bet with one of the other guys.
willcipriano 5y ago
The alternative is you get hoisted by your own petard. I'd take tunnel duty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

A First-Person Tunneler would probably also make for a boring video game. Wait, does the word 'boring' come from the drugdery of digging tunnels?

psyc 5y ago
Ahem. There was this little indie game that sort of took over the world in 2010 and made its creator a billionaire…
- a9h74j 5y ago
  I was picturing looking at a screen of solid rock. The indie game I assume added a lot beyond that.
  - sudosysgen 5y ago
    Most of the time is indeed spent looking at rock, at least back then.
  - psyc 5y ago
    https://youtu.be/IwMSjcVFXbQ?t=238 https://youtu.be/IwMSjcVFXbQ?t=238 It adds more things than I will ever learn how to do. But you still spend loooooots of time looking at a screen of 16x16 gray textures that are suggestive of rock.
    - a9h74j 5y ago
      OMG. I've always seen people doing surface navigation or at most surface digging in Minecraft. I never made the connection to possibly blasting away rocks while below surface.
      - psyc 5y ago
        Loot gets better and rarer the deeper you go. It’s a basic slot machine. You spend 5 minutes on whack whack whack whack poof, and every once in a while … Diamond Jackpot!
      - krisoft 5y ago
        There is a reason it is called “mine” craft. “The name was a combination of the words mine, for mining ore in shafts, and craft, as in building or creating something.” Quote from here: https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/ https://www.wired.com/2013/11/minecraft-book/
- ethbr0 5y ago
  Ahem. Allow me to introduce you to the most fun you can have with a single monitor and shared keyboard. https://dosgames.com/game/tunneler/ https://dosgames.com/game/tunneler/ Try it out with a physically proximal friend.
  - _0ffh 5y ago
    Having been part of a clique who spent a lot of times playing Tank Wars* I wonder how I could have missed this variant! * I even made a basic Tank Wars clone from scratch in one day because of a bet with one of the other guys.

willcipriano 5y ago

The alternative is you get hoisted by your own petard. I'd take tunnel duty. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard