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For folks that have never seen elevator scheduling the game: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/ https://play.elevatorsaga.com/ Enjoy this rabbit hole :D

grep_it 2mo ago
I always come back to this game whenever I'm at a hotel for a conference waiting for the elevator.
perryprog 2mo ago
Wow, I just came here to comment that I've always wondered if a game where you have to program an elevator scheduler would be any fun. I thought surely no-one's thought to make that before, too! Glad to be proven wrong.
alanwreath 2mo ago
I wish there were more games like this. It’s such a simple premise but so satisfyingly difficult after each level. And it even has a bit of randomish failure which makes for even more challenge.
- john_strinlai 2mo ago
  at a quick glance, it reminds me of "the farmer was replaced", if you havent seen/heard of that one
  - NooneAtAll3 2mo ago
    https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Replaced/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Re... I remember this one, it deserves all sorts of praise
    - ivolimmen 2mo ago
      I can also recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Machine/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...
      - NooneAtAll3 2mo ago
        and its sequel is also worth a mention https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/ but imo, unlike farmer, these games reaaaaly lack the ability to make functions/subroutines manually doing all the goto loops becomes tiring
- darkvertex 2mo ago
  If you buy the adorable monochrome console called the "Playdate" https://play.date https://play.date it comes with a bunch of games included, including a cute elevator game where you help penguins to different floors while controlling the elevators yourself using the crank: https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/ https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/
- ivanjermakov 2mo ago
  You will like https://www.zachtronics.com/ https://www.zachtronics.com/
  - inigyou 2mo ago
    That's the guy who created Infiniminer, which was essentially 3D multiplayer Motherlode (a game everyone was playing at school lunch and I never figured out why) and inspired Minecraft.
- ftmch 2mo ago
  I had the idea to build something like it but for traffic lights. Never got around to actually do it. I have a feeling it probably exists.
  - zengineer 2mo ago
    same :) Although, I wonder if building it is more fun than actually playing it then
emmanueloga_ 2mo ago
looks very well made, but I still prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action !
CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
This is great, but to me, the definitive elevator scheduling game was SimTower.
- genericone 2mo ago
  Sid Meier's Elevator Manager was such a great game... so much nostalgia.
  - CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
    Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.
    - iqihs 2mo ago
      Yoot Tower has been on my bucketlist of games to play for a while now
      - jcranmer 2mo ago
        Waiting for Don Hopkins to jump into this thread, saying how he's going to release the source code soon... (https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower if you haven't seen one of his messages on the topic before)
  - AndrewHart 2mo ago
    The only result I get in Google for this is... this post
    - fragmede 2mo ago
      Sid Meier wasn't involved with SimTower, GP is mistaken.
- somat 2mo ago
  I never really "got" sim tower growing up, I liked sim city but bounced off tower. It only clicked years later when I read that it was an elevator simulator that got fleshed out a bit, Knowing this I enjoy it quite a bit more today than younger me who I guess was expecting a vertical simcity.
inkkin 2mo ago
Omg! <3
vova_hn2 2mo ago
Very fun indeed! Can't believe, that this [0] solution to Challenge #5 actually worked, lol Challenge #6 is "Transport 40 people using 60 elevator moves or less". Unfortunately docs don't make it clear what exactly counts as a "move". [0] https://gist.github.com/vovanz/66e4396934ac656a8f8c32fcee43d2cf https://gist.github.com/vovanz/66e4396934ac656a8f8c32fcee43d...
- fragmede 2mo ago
  bogosort!
lmazgon 2mo ago
A few years back I made a CLI game in Go where you have to schedule elevators - https://github.com/lovromazgon/elecrash https://github.com/lovromazgon/elecrash
LordOmlette 2mo ago
This is what I immediately thought of when I saw > How do you actually measure how good an elevator algorithm is?

grep_it 2mo ago

I always come back to this game whenever I'm at a hotel for a conference waiting for the elevator.

perryprog 2mo ago

Wow, I just came here to comment that I've always wondered if a game where you have to program an elevator scheduler would be any fun. I thought surely no-one's thought to make that before, too! Glad to be proven wrong.

alanwreath 2mo ago

I wish there were more games like this. It’s such a simple premise but so satisfyingly difficult after each level. And it even has a bit of randomish failure which makes for even more challenge.

john_strinlai 2mo ago
at a quick glance, it reminds me of "the farmer was replaced", if you havent seen/heard of that one
- NooneAtAll3 2mo ago
  https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Replaced/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Re... I remember this one, it deserves all sorts of praise
  - ivolimmen 2mo ago
    I can also recommend https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Machine/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...
    - NooneAtAll3 2mo ago
      and its sequel is also worth a mention https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/ but imo, unlike farmer, these games reaaaaly lack the ability to make functions/subroutines manually doing all the goto loops becomes tiring
darkvertex 2mo ago
If you buy the adorable monochrome console called the "Playdate" https://play.date https://play.date it comes with a bunch of games included, including a cute elevator game where you help penguins to different floors while controlling the elevators yourself using the crank: https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/ https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/
ivanjermakov 2mo ago
You will like https://www.zachtronics.com/ https://www.zachtronics.com/
- inigyou 2mo ago
  That's the guy who created Infiniminer, which was essentially 3D multiplayer Motherlode (a game everyone was playing at school lunch and I never figured out why) and inspired Minecraft.
ftmch 2mo ago
I had the idea to build something like it but for traffic lights. Never got around to actually do it. I have a feeling it probably exists.
- zengineer 2mo ago
  same :) Although, I wonder if building it is more fun than actually playing it then

emmanueloga_ 2mo ago

looks very well made, but I still prefer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action !

CobrastanJorji 2mo ago

This is great, but to me, the definitive elevator scheduling game was SimTower.

genericone 2mo ago
Sid Meier's Elevator Manager was such a great game... so much nostalgia.
- CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
  Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.
  - iqihs 2mo ago
    Yoot Tower has been on my bucketlist of games to play for a while now
    - jcranmer 2mo ago
      Waiting for Don Hopkins to jump into this thread, saying how he's going to release the source code soon... (https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower if you haven't seen one of his messages on the topic before)
- AndrewHart 2mo ago
  The only result I get in Google for this is... this post
  - fragmede 2mo ago
    Sid Meier wasn't involved with SimTower, GP is mistaken.
somat 2mo ago
I never really "got" sim tower growing up, I liked sim city but bounced off tower. It only clicked years later when I read that it was an elevator simulator that got fleshed out a bit, Knowing this I enjoy it quite a bit more today than younger me who I guess was expecting a vertical simcity.

inkkin 2mo ago

Omg! <3

vova_hn2 2mo ago

Very fun indeed! Can't believe, that this [0] solution to Challenge #5 actually worked, lol Challenge #6 is "Transport 40 people using 60 elevator moves or less". Unfortunately docs don't make it clear what exactly counts as a "move". [0] https://gist.github.com/vovanz/66e4396934ac656a8f8c32fcee43d2cf https://gist.github.com/vovanz/66e4396934ac656a8f8c32fcee43d...

fragmede 2mo ago
bogosort!

lmazgon 2mo ago

A few years back I made a CLI game in Go where you have to schedule elevators - https://github.com/lovromazgon/elecrash https://github.com/lovromazgon/elecrash

LordOmlette 2mo ago

This is what I immediately thought of when I saw > How do you actually measure how good an elevator algorithm is?