it's not got the things that make clicker games fun: idling and upgrades
here's an idea if you want to keep the community aspect: each player gets their own private pot they can spend on upgrades etc or they can transfer points to the community pot to get special upgrades or bonuses when global milestones are reached
might do that myself if you don't like the idea, seems simple enough
of course the issue is always making it balanced and fun
also would like to help but don't really know python
can help on game design i guess
for example currently the power of 2 goals make no sense since you're always incrementing by a constant amount
they'd make more sense if there was a way to up the point power or something
I can already tell I'm going to fucking hate my chem 2 class
Bro does not know how to teach whatsoever
Just spent 50m writing math on the board with no explanation of what any of the symbols stood for, not a single example of what any of the formulas would be used for, no differentiation in presentation style between derivations of stuff we need to know and actual stuff we need to know, just a complete shit show that left everyone in the room knowing less about chemistry than before we walked in
Then some stupid car on the bike ride home cut me off then randomly slammed on its brakes, so I had to swerve out of the way twice 'cause of whoever it was
Today is not my day lol
And I can't even switch chem classes since this is the only guy teaching this version of the class, and the other version of it overlaps fully with my Russian class
Worst part is I'm pretty sure he's just been deriving the ideal gas law this whole time with some side quests
Which is unnecessary but like if you're going to do it, the point would be to give people a more rigorous or a more intuitive understanding of it, and this guy has accomplished neither
It's just the stolen aesthetics of instruction
Compare that to my diff eq prof whose lessons are both more rigorous than any math class I've had, and explained extremely intuitively and with well-crafted examples. I was thinking maybe this chem prof's way of teaching is just how college classes are but no it's just how shitty college classes are
@mousetail the difference is that other idle games get you hooked by starting with small goals; here if you join and the goal is 2B away there is zero incentive to play
A discord I'm in has a "counting" channel where people just count. We all work together, there is no goal
Or consider big team efforts like BB, even though a individual can't meaningfully contribute it's an extra big celebration when the collective reaches a goal
interesting, the counting channels i'm in are split between "we restart everytime someone ruins it" and "we find clever ways to spell the number sequence referencing mathematical functions or constants"
latter is obviously more fun
but there you don't really do it for the goal, it's more "look at this function i found" of course
but yeah, maybe it can work
still like my idea and might develop it, doesn't mean this project is worse because of that of course
ah, site is down, sad, wanted to contribute towards the next goal
If you look at the reverse-engineered Minecraft Java Edition server protocol, there is an interesting integer encoding method that is used quite often called VarInt.
It works like this:
You have an array of bytes. 7 bits of each byte is used to encode part of the integer, with the most significan...
In the classic game of Sokoban the player's character solves puzzles by pushing boxes around a warehouse onto designated targets. Take, for example, this ASCIIfied game level:
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x.1..
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..o..
This level could be solved by the player (o) pushing box 1 left two spaces onto the target...
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Earlier some scammer called me with one of those same-area-code spoofed numbers, while I was riding my bike, which was so fun since she kept trying to get info but I (legitimately) couldn't hear her and would be like "WHAT WAS THAT? I CANT HEAR IM ON A BICYCLE" until I finally heard what she was saying and hung up lmao
Apple made the change to their own App Store to discourage people from using other app stores
they were required to allow other app stores, and required to use USB-C, but tmk they weren't forced to change the rules for their own App Store -- that part was done on their own accord
Anyone else just really weird about the idea of hoodies
@Seggan I love not even being able to go into debt properly until I sort out how the fuck to apply for financial aid while I'm no contact with the parent who nominally supported me for the last year but may or may not have actually supported me at all depending on how you spin the accounting
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