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Schemaverse: MMO entirely in Postgres
- Cushman 14y agoLove it. A few years ago we ran http://mysqlgame.com/ http://mysqlgame.com/, similar premise but it was entirely simulated SQL. Implementing the entire game in the database is a great touch.
- xnxn 14y agoThanks for doing that, by the way! I have fond memories of my college friends and I strategically updating our rows and those of our adversaries. It was much more fun than it had any right to be.
- abstrct 14y agoThanks Cushman! Glad you like it :D mysqlgame was certainly one of the inspirations when I started writing this a couple years ago.
- reedlaw 14y agoGreat idea! Reminds me of my https://github.com/reedlaw/ruby-mmo https://github.com/reedlaw/ruby-mmo
- prince_hakeem 14y agoGreat idea! (Now let me pimp my own project that nobody cares about so I can make myself feel better and convince myself I'm relevant)
- hsmyers 14y agoFor no reason I can think of this reminds me of Spacewar. I've no idea why, just does. This was in 1962, see: http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.htm http://inventors.about.com/od/sstartinventions/a/Spacewar.ht... which predates even me. I didn't know about it until Steven Brand wrote about it in his book described here: http://wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html http://wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html The book and Brand's enthusiasm is what got me involved with computers in the first place. If Schemaverse does the same for someone else then that is a very good thing. As for the pointy hair folk who mumble about too much time on someone's hands, well, sit them down and make them play!
- jaredsohn 14y agoSince you mentioned Spacewar in a post about an MMO, I feel like I need to plug http://www.mmospacewar.com http://www.mmospacewar.com which is a fork I made of MMO Asteroids (featured here as the top post about a month ago) to make it behave more like Spacewar. It isn't fully polished yet (I'd like to use better sprites, the energy costs may need some tweaking, and I'd like to improve support for choosing instances), but it is functional and you and others might find it interesting.
- bobbbins 14y agoWonderful! Now THIS is a worthy Hacker News entry, not blogs by butthurt authors whining about someone calling someone else moron.
- benn 14y agoAgreed! Also, butthurt hahaha.
- sophacles 14y agoI agree that this is cool. I would like to suggest though, that in your 3 hours here, you may not have really gained enough perspective on the community to declare what is and isn't worthy to be posted...
- JoachimSchipper 14y ago(S)he may have been lurking for a long time. Why not wait with the "noob" until (s)he actually does something wrong?
- chamakits 14y agoI think that it was entailed that the original parent was indeed doing something wrong. Specifically the post doesn't add much to the conversation, and frankly the "not blogs by butthurt authors whining about someone calling someone else moron" comment is especially nonconstructive.
- Ralith 14y agoA bit ironic, too.
- sciurus 14y agoI wish I could read the entire tutorial without registering. I shouldn't have to register before I know if I want to play the game.
- bobbbins 14y agoUse Mailinator, how hard can it be?
- sciurus 14y agoYou shouldn't ask the user "How hard can it be?", you should ask the creator "How easy can you make it?".
- nyar 14y agoAbout as hard as walking across the bathroom to throw away a piece of paper only to then walk back the other way to exit the door.
- lowboy 14y agoRegistering with a fake email address is still registering.
- willlll 14y agohttps://schemaverse.com/Abstrct-TheSchemaverseGuide.pdf https://schemaverse.com/Abstrct-TheSchemaverseGuide.pdf
- rmATinnovafy 14y agoAwesome stuff. I'm not sleeping tonight.
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- dfranke 14y agoThis looks like the perfect game for goofing off at work without anyone knowing. Especially if you're a DBA.
- doktrin 14y agoThis reminds me of the old BBS game Tradewars 2002 that in later years (1999-present?) metamorphosed into a scripting based game played primarily by developers and amateur coders. As with Schemaverse, it's also a space-trading game although of course there is an interface - albeit text only. This is clearly taking programming dependency a step further, and I would love to play it if I still had time to devote to any form of gaming.