I’m looking for strange/interesting/obscure PC games. Could be anything from Windows, DOS, Mac OS (old school), PC-98, Amiga, or whatever else I’m missing there. Let’s hear ‘em!

  • kleeon [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, that was my problem too. Programming starts to feel like cheating once you know enough about the game world - you can get infinite money, you can teleport anywhere instantly and so on

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      That’s solved by making all the things that can affect the game state be gated behind an API that has certain limits on how the player may use it, or by only allowing the player to code an agent with limited actions. e.g. computercraft turtles cost fuel for every action they do and they need to go up to the blocks/entity they will interact with, so using them to automate something requires some engineering.

      • Stolen_Stolen_Valor [any]@hexbear.net
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        they must of done this with hackmud at some point. I stopped playing back in the day because some omega JavaScript nerd figured out the games code was also written in JavaScript so it was relatively easy to escape and took the whole thing down by accident I think. I think it’s still playable now tho

        I have an extremely loose understanding of coding but I think JavaScript it’s pretty flimsy and easy to break