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I started playing this while some code was compiling and ended up getting completely sucked in. That giddy thrill of enabling a restless mass of fellow cursors

by xnxn 12y ago

I started playing this while some code was compiling and ended up getting completely sucked in. That giddy thrill of enabling a restless mass of fellow cursors to rush through a gate, or the temporary, unspoken bond between the lone cursor selflessly manning a button and the new arrival sidling up to them to see if they want to change shifts... there's a lot going on in this seemingly simple game. I'm glad I got to play while it's at critical mass. (Developers, are you logging the cursor movements? This would be fascinating to analyze later.)

Matheus28 12y ago
I am not logging anything at the moment. I started writing this a few days ago.
- vegabook 12y ago
  This is going to be H U G E. Stats about one's own selflessness etc would be really cool. Or even aggregated stuff. X% is selfish, Deciles of goodness etc.
  - goldfeld 12y ago
    The potential for game theory experiments here is very possibly unparalleled.
  - sturmeh 12y ago
    I was completely expecting some stats read out at the end, saying I had spent X time in levels that selfless people had spend Y time in.
- dietrichepp 12y ago
  You should play "Trappy Tomb", if you haven't already.
- libria 12y ago
  There's potential for a really neat prisoner's dilemma study here. Should be an exercise for many a philosophy course.
- comboy 12y ago
  And I thought it was some social experiment where I'm going to see how egoistic I am.
- archagon 12y ago
  Arrgh, how do you guys write these awesome, complex projects (with networking! and built-in tools!) in just a few days? If I tried my hand at making this, it would take me, like, a month. What is the trick that lets you leap across this order-of-magnitude-sized time gap? Great work!
  - Matheus28 12y ago
    You just have to be familiar with your tools. I even wrote my own websocket server implementation, because there wasn't any good ones for libuv.
    - aleem 12y ago
      Your profile doesn't have much info but a blog post or something would make for a fun read.
- srijankedia 12y ago
  The game is really creative and addictive! I am a Ph.D. student and I would like to use the game as a platform for research. Do you plan on making the logs available any time?
- Reef 12y ago
  This is, hands down, the most awesome game I have ever played through a web browser! Please start logging as soon as possible. Simple heat maps of cursor positions, draw areas and pings would be awesome to look at. It could be shown to players in the end of the game. If you collect data, I will help you process it. I am especially interested in measuring the percentage of players who volunteer to change a poor soul trapped far away, just because it is a nice thing to do. Percentage of players who never do that would also be interesting, just as players who figure out that they can click 2 or sometimes 4 buttons by oneself, freeing several cursors.
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willvarfar 12y ago
> I started playing this while some code was compiling Likely excuse! Cue xkcd linkbot.

by xnxn 12y ago

Matheus28 12y ago

I am not logging anything at the moment. I started writing this a few days ago.

vegabook 12y ago
This is going to be H U G E. Stats about one's own selflessness etc would be really cool. Or even aggregated stuff. X% is selfish, Deciles of goodness etc.
- goldfeld 12y ago
  The potential for game theory experiments here is very possibly unparalleled.
- sturmeh 12y ago
  I was completely expecting some stats read out at the end, saying I had spent X time in levels that selfless people had spend Y time in.
dietrichepp 12y ago
You should play "Trappy Tomb", if you haven't already.
libria 12y ago
There's potential for a really neat prisoner's dilemma study here. Should be an exercise for many a philosophy course.
comboy 12y ago
And I thought it was some social experiment where I'm going to see how egoistic I am.
archagon 12y ago
Arrgh, how do you guys write these awesome, complex projects (with networking! and built-in tools!) in just a few days? If I tried my hand at making this, it would take me, like, a month. What is the trick that lets you leap across this order-of-magnitude-sized time gap? Great work!
- Matheus28 12y ago
  You just have to be familiar with your tools. I even wrote my own websocket server implementation, because there wasn't any good ones for libuv.
  - aleem 12y ago
    Your profile doesn't have much info but a blog post or something would make for a fun read.
srijankedia 12y ago
The game is really creative and addictive! I am a Ph.D. student and I would like to use the game as a platform for research. Do you plan on making the logs available any time?
Reef 12y ago
This is, hands down, the most awesome game I have ever played through a web browser! Please start logging as soon as possible. Simple heat maps of cursor positions, draw areas and pings would be awesome to look at. It could be shown to players in the end of the game. If you collect data, I will help you process it. I am especially interested in measuring the percentage of players who volunteer to change a poor soul trapped far away, just because it is a nice thing to do. Percentage of players who never do that would also be interesting, just as players who figure out that they can click 2 or sometimes 4 buttons by oneself, freeing several cursors.

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willvarfar 12y ago

> I started playing this while some code was compiling Likely excuse! Cue xkcd linkbot.