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I remember when Notch was playing with this space game with a slimed down assembly language he created. He stopped working on it unfortunately, but I still thi

by swalsh 3y ago

I remember when Notch was playing with this space game with a slimed down assembly language he created. He stopped working on it unfortunately, but I still think there's a whole potential genre of hacking on a game. Not a "press F" to hack, but a legit log into this system, get/change whatever. Having a legit in-game OS seems like a good step forward.

japanman185 3y ago
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bragr 3y ago
It's more programming than hacking but you might enjoy TIS-100 https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/
posix86 3y ago
Factorio has a mod where you can program electricity circuits using assembly, I forgot the name. You place a "computer facility", connect to the signal network, then open a terminal to start programming. It's pretty cool because factories can be very complex, giving it real utility. And you can communicate over the wire with fair sophistication using items as signal symbols. The clock speed of the devices was limited to a few instructions per game tick.
- fragmede 3y ago
  At what point does it start looking too much like your real job? Zachatronics game Shenzen had that problem for some friends of mine that do chip design professionally.
n_plus_1_acc 3y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/
koromak 3y ago
Bitburners does a pretty good job. Its an idle game with fairly limited "OS" emulation, but the best solutions require real thought and programming knowledge. You'll be writing scripts to scan the net for open ports, automatically "hack" into them, then globally balance allocate memory between all of them according to certain parameters to make the hack the most "profitable". You'll be writing elementary socket communications, building scripts to feed analytics back to your home PC, even alogirthmic trading in a fake stock market. I had fun with it.
grimgrin 3y ago
For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c https://web.archive.org/web/20130905082541/http://dcpu.com/dcpu-16/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130905082541/http://dcpu.com/d...
- swalsh 3y ago
  Ah yep, that's the one I was thinking of. Really disapointing he never released it.

by swalsh 3y ago

japanman185 3y ago

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bragr 3y ago

It's more programming than hacking but you might enjoy TIS-100 https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/

posix86 3y ago

Factorio has a mod where you can program electricity circuits using assembly, I forgot the name. You place a "computer facility", connect to the signal network, then open a terminal to start programming. It's pretty cool because factories can be very complex, giving it real utility. And you can communicate over the wire with fair sophistication using items as signal symbols. The clock speed of the devices was limited to a few instructions per game tick.

fragmede 3y ago
At what point does it start looking too much like your real job? Zachatronics game Shenzen had that problem for some friends of mine that do chip design professionally.

n_plus_1_acc 3y ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/

koromak 3y ago

Bitburners does a pretty good job. Its an idle game with fairly limited "OS" emulation, but the best solutions require real thought and programming knowledge. You'll be writing scripts to scan the net for open ports, automatically "hack" into them, then globally balance allocate memory between all of them according to certain parameters to make the hack the most "profitable". You'll be writing elementary socket communications, building scripts to feed analytics back to your home PC, even alogirthmic trading in a fake stock market. I had fun with it.

grimgrin 3y ago

For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c https://web.archive.org/web/20130905082541/http://dcpu.com/dcpu-16/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130905082541/http://dcpu.com/d...

swalsh 3y ago
Ah yep, that's the one I was thinking of. Really disapointing he never released it.