hey

Good evening!

Filling my tax return. Fun fun fun!

Did you give the government a sizable interest free loan that they must now repay?

Something like that, yeah.

@Kevin i feel you...

"Cellular automata" as in "game of life"?

Does the character count as a neighbor?

Oh. I thought it was continuous and the character could grow stuff.

Maybe one could build something like that.

Brought to mind a cellular automaton glitch I was showing my students yesterday:

I want to find a purpose to put it toward, but I have no clue what.

Why u no make screensaviours?

Are screensavers still a thing?

Make Screensavers Great Again!

I don't know :P

Though, I have been wanting to get in on the screensaver jam, it's just never been a good time for my schedule. ;)

I've wanted to make one that's a 2D RPG that plays itself, with a procedurally generated overworld the hero wanders around, battling monsters & leveling up the longer you let it run. XD

Kind of like Grow RPG but fully autonomous / endless

@DMGregory That's super wierd

Welcome to the inside of my head. ;)

That is a super rad accident. I especially liked where it reaches the tipping point to looking like lava colored fireworks.

@DMGregory It's entertaining, though!

Reminds me of some stuff from an old artificial life sim book.

Artificial Life Lab by Rudy Rucker

Oooh. That's a lot to dig into...

Author also wrote some of the first cyberpunk novels. His ALL book covers a bunch of different cellular automata rules & sims.

Yeah, there's a bunch of neat stuff & yet ALL is a pretty light read.

Sadly the software that shipped with it would need a bit of work to get going again - I think it's circa Windows 3.1

Maybe something like DOSBox or the like would work though.

@DMGregory anyway props on discovering a cool accident w/ your class - those are the moments I miss most from teaching.

That & seeing their expressions when some new big idea finally clicks.

@DMGregory hey, that's not easy

Soooo satisfying when you beat it though! :D

I guess!

@DMGregory grow games are the best. Each year when I would visit my cousin (which lives in a different country) we would revisit the grow website and see if sth new came out

I like how it flips the challenge from being a hero fulfilling your destined quest against a world out of your control, to being destiny itself, constructing a world in which the hero out of your control can fulfill their quest.

Did any of you complete Chronon?

I didn't, that was fuckin hard

Never heard of it. But then again, I live in a cave, gaming-wise.

It's one of the Grow guy's games

Ditto. Has kind of a nice look though.

At a glance I would say, kind of a first person version of the Witness.

which I also haven't played.

The Witness is great

I recommend it

Every time I try some new game, I seem to stray back to Binding of Isaac.

haha

I kind of liked binding of issac, but it was pretty unpolished

Did you play the original or the re-released version after he ditched Flash?

The Flash version had some serious bugs, slow down & balance issues.

@Pikalek but wasnt the new one visually awful ?

I played BoI on steam, OSX

@Kay We call it aesthetic. And also talk in third person. We think it makes us cultured. Like yogurt.

@Almo As I recall both versions are on Steam.

I call them like i sees 'em

Ah, no idea if I played before or after flash

bought it 1/10/2012

Just checked - BoI: Rebirth is the newer, not ActionScript one.

ah, ok not played that.

Content wise, I believe it has most everything from the original, but some things got tweaked & a ton of other poop (ha ha Isaac joke) added in.

hey room