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Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
by advisedwang 3mo ago
Fabulous concept, but personally I did not find very fun actually playing.
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoA lot of these puzzle/micromanagement games are very similar to stuff folks do for work. I stopped playing an entire category of puzzle games once I realized it was basically programming, which I do all day for a living anyway. Gamified programming is still programming.
- jonahx 3mo agoMany programmers program for fun outside of work.
- hnlmorg 3mo agoI’m one of those people. And what we do is write actual software for fun rather than pretend software in a computer game. If I wanted logic flow embedded in a game then I’d want it in an environment that’s far removed from traditional programming. Such as building contraptions in Minecraft.
- ivanjermakov 3mo agoWhen I play games scratching programming itch I always think if I'd be better of working on pet projects instead.
- jasonfarnon 3mo agoThat's what bugged me about the old MS Flight Sim games. It felt like the actual job.
- lukan 3mo agoYes, but many dream about actual flying for real, but cannot so enjoy this substitute. (I enjoy more arcade style)
- mrguyorama 3mo agoThat's why you can speed up the simulation. Certain portions of flight are dramatically more entertaining than others. So take an hour to boot up the 777 from cold and dark, setup all the computers and management, do all the preflight, manage taxi and takeoff, then run the actual 7 hour flight at 10x speed so you can do the fun landing. But even games that seem like just a job can be fun. Euro Truck simulator is fun because you are entirely self directed. Each job produces tangible results and you feel yourself progressing in a clear way that you often do not feel in a real job.
- jasonfarnon 3mo agoI probably wasnt raised right, but none of that matters if you can't shoot down other planes, buildings, something, anything. And if you can shoot down planes the bells an whistles don't matter. 1942 was perfect.
- glaslong 3mo agoI have a problematic relationship with Zachtronics games for this reason. I love TIS-100, but at some point I realized I was studying the user manual for a fictional computer, trying to learn it's fictional assembly language, to optimize some multicore data flows.... and decided I should probably get paid for doing that in real life instead.
- GolfPopper 3mo agoBut just think of the great training this will provide for your enslaved upload in the future!
- ChrisRR 3mo agoTell me you play Zachtronics without saying Zachtronics
- loloquwowndueo 3mo agoWhat’s Zachtronics. Never heard of it.
- rhdunn 3mo agoA game company (https://www.zachtronics.com/ https://www.zachtronics.com/) that have made a series of games where you either build machines or write instructions to solve a task. An example is Opus Magnum where you convert input elements to output elements. The games track things like cycles taken to complete the task, size/area of the machine, and cost. Those scores are shown on separate leaderboards and optimizing for one can come at the cost of another (e.g. faster machines may be bigger and/or more expensive).
- axus 3mo agoAfter you switch to managing LLM agents all day, programming at home will be fun again. Just don't use an LLM to play the game...
- wing-_-nuts 3mo agoI do like some of them, like pico 8 is a constrained game programming environment, and it takes me back to the days of the power of qbasic, being able to do dang near anything without burying yourself in a massive layer of abstraction and complexity.
- internet_points 3mo agoOTOH I now have a lot more sympathy for my cpu's, I should give them some slack