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by eezurr 5y ago
I think I understand why Nintendo heavily protects their IP. Their strategy dates back to when Nintendo first expanded into the US in the 1980s after the video game crash of 1983 (which partially happened because of the overwhelming amount
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by eezurr 5y ago
Wow! I've been using the internet since the 90s and I have never had my hair blown back by a webpage before. The isometric view certainly hits the nostalgia button. Edit (from the site): "Japan was once globally renowned for its p
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by eezurr 5y ago
Ahh. I see you have learned Japanese. Well done! (Note: Japanese uses a phonetic alphabet. For the most part, the characters you see (when kanji is written out in hiragana/katakana) are sounded exactly as they are in when written/
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by eezurr 5y ago
Related story: A Maine (US) hermit lived in the forest for nearly 30 years. https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit?printable=true And the related HN post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8205
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by eezurr 5y ago
A part of me wishes for a video game crash to happen again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 But it wont, because most video games are no longer tied to physical products. It takes very little eff
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by eezurr 5y ago
Their last game has 86% positive votes on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/#app_rev... IMO, the demo video communicates to me a bland rehash & reskin (which really means I am not
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by eezurr 5y ago
Thank you to the moderation team for keeping HN a pleasant, educational corner of the internet.
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by eezurr 5y ago
Im reading the description of this service via the multiple questions asking what Temporal is. So now I am curious, could this be pivoted to work in game development? I understand that is not your target audience, but state management is a
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by eezurr 5y ago
Well how about we start one, for people working on simulation games? https://discord.gg/ZydM8Eg77P When I have time I'll poke around the internet for other devs with similar ambitions .
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by eezurr 5y ago
>It's great to hear from other game devs! I agree! Do you happen to know of any small discord servers / other communities for game devs making simulation games? The larger ones I've been to were just too big. I dont have a
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by eezurr 5y ago
Sure, I'll try. The structures are all lined up and flush up against each other, and the buildings are bunched up. There's nothing wrong with that, I was just confused by "realistic processes". To me that also means (clo
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by eezurr 5y ago
Just curious, if you're focusing on realistic processes, how come that excludes realistic spacing/placement of structures (based on your websites background video/image)? Wouldn't the two go hand in hand for the feeling
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Ask HN: Great Books from your 2021 Reading List?
8 points by eezurr 5y ago|3 comments
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by eezurr 5y ago
The relatively little money (and little experience with startups) that most retail investors have would not be enough to diversify their risk and thus be equivalent to gambling. I think the figure is 5% of startups are successful? Anyone wh
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Ask HN: Starting a company comprised of an international team?
1 points by eezurr 5y ago|0 comments
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by eezurr 5y ago
Thanks! Once I've got a base game equivalent to SimCity 2000 in functionality + real time traffic, I'll release the game for free. When the game can begin competing with Cities: Skylines on a simulation level, I'll start char
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by eezurr 5y ago
Indeed! The largest problem I will be tackling is simulating (to the best extent possible) an economy. One thing I liked (and made a lot of sense, at least to me) in SimCity 2000 is that the first demand you had to fulfill was industry. So
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by eezurr 5y ago
I've been working on a city builder/simulation video game for the last few months. If that's something you're curious & passionate about, send me an email (see profile). The game is built from the ground up with SFML
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by eezurr 5y ago
When people purchase the game, will they have a digital copy on their hard drive? Or will they be beholden to the company staying in business and keeling the servers running?
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by eezurr 5y ago
I read this book (or a good chunk of it) awhile ago and something was off about it. I didn't believe he knew what he was talking about. I dont recall any counter examples in his book, or him claiming he had direct experience with busin
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by eezurr 5y ago
I have to disagree. Society works in layers and mutual trust, and its not the sales person job to know the ins and outs of the device. Their job is to communicate what the machine does and how to do it. Also, you could brick the device in a
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by eezurr 5y ago
Thanks! I appreciate it.
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Ask HN: How would one receive assistance from any CS researcher?
3 points by eezurr 5y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Where can I find the old internet's short stories/fiction?
5 points by eezurr 5y ago|1 comments
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by eezurr 5y ago
I think the reason the old internet was what it was was because the barrier to entry was much higher (computers cost a lot of money in the 90s/ early 00s, you needed to learn HTML (at a minimum) to put a website together, and you had t
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by eezurr 5y ago
I think you're not considering the effective efficiency difference. This is what scares me about unreviewed (by society, government) advances in technology. If we increase the efficiency of something (lets say software) by 100%, all th
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by eezurr 5y ago
Personally I think people should be free to say what they want to. And people are free to react the way they want to too. But neither side should have the power to silence the other. Also since this submission hasnt been downvoted into obli
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by eezurr 5y ago
(Citation needed)
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by eezurr 5y ago
Its also possible this is collateral (except it happens first) to building a better company from the ashes. I'll be wrong if this person stays at blizzard after a year. I think they want the IP and brands foremost.
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by eezurr 5y ago
You're missing a relevant option for HN: became an entrepreneur.

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