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[hemmingjay]

Huh. Looks like a Shores of Hazeron but with more emphasis on the ship and exploration and less of the planetary SimCity/FPS stuff.

Plus no ridiculous lag monster stalking you.

[Tilla]

Those screen shots don't leave me excited for the game... I know it's a rough prototype but um, MEH.

And I'm also sorry to hear that he is no longer the hard sci fi route, that framework, could have had offer a lot of interesting gameplay and interesting meaningful choices.

No see, that's the entire point of ditching hard scifi: it literally was not interesting gameplay - even running around felt wrong.

The game is sooo early in development to the point where he's just getting a model editor in place now, so it's almost impossible to judge what's going on in it.

[Itnetlolor]

The operating system is giving me a Commodore 64 flashback. I wonder if any games will be hidden inside them, like Boulderdash.

There isn't an 'operating system,' you will have to program that yourself. Just assembly.

Derp. It's been some time since I last booted it up.

to play...

I have to learn to program.

FU-

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10 LOAD "COMMAND OVERRIDE V.B-12",8,1
20 RUN
30 SET CORE:REACTOR-POWER:x+1
40 PRINT, CENTER "♦♦♦ NOTHING IS WRONG WITH ME. KEEP GOING ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS. ♦♦♦"
50 WAIT SECONDS:5
60 CLEARSCREEN
70 WAIT SECONDS:5
80 GOTO 30

Enjoy the last moments of your ship before the reactor eventually reaches meltdown as it keeps on reassuring everyone that it's fine.

EDIT:
A side-thought: Has anyone ever thought of making DF texture packs based on the systems of olde like the good ol' Commodore 64/128? Even with the classic color schemes.

[alexandertnt]

Huh. Looks like a Shores of Hazeron but with more emphasis on the ship and exploration and less of the planetary SimCity/FPS stuff.

Plus no ridiculous lag monster stalking you.

Plus AI that wont crash into the sun.

Wait, you have to code the AI yourself?

*static*

[Aklyon]

There'll probably someone complaining you used GOTO, itnetlolor.

[Itnetlolor]

I was just going off memory of screwing around with my old machine way back. Sorta like

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10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
Of course, I was about 4 when I was doing stuff like this; so, sorta expected. Although, I was more using commands like GRAPHIC #, and then drawing CIRLCEs and such within the designated space.

EDIT:
That was more about coding in general, than the sheer dickishness of how I was using that command, right?

[Roboboy33]

Is there anywhere I can find a tutorial on assembly?

[ductape]

The operating system is giving me a Commodore 64 flashback. I wonder if any games will be hidden inside them, like Boulderdash.

I hope we can play M.U.L.E.

[Lord Dullard]

I think I'm going to have to get this. I wasn't terribly impressed with Minecraft, although I thought it was fun enough to warrant a few hours of play, but the singular idea of being able to code some kind of terrible, evil armageddon-virus that will spiral out of control and wipe out your ship an entire fleet of ships several planets the entire in-game universe will be too much for me to resist.

If it pans out that you can actually do those sorts of things, I mean. I'll check back on this once it's closer to completion. If Notch f**** it up maybe I'll just do it myself.

[Alehkhs]

The operating system is giving me a Commodore 64 flashback. I wonder if any games will be hidden inside them, like Boulderdash.

I hope we can play M.U.L.E.

Or you could just go play it: http://www.planetmule.com/ 

[alway]

I think I'm going to have to get this. I wasn't terribly impressed with Minecraft, although I thought it was fun enough to warrant a few hours of play, but the singular idea of being able to code some kind of terrible, evil armageddon-virus that will spiral out of control and wipe out your ship an entire fleet of ships several planets the entire in-game universe will be too much for me to resist.

If it pans out that you can actually do those sorts of things, I mean. I'll check back on this once it's closer to completion. If Notch f**** it up maybe I'll just do it myself.

It's everything you could do with a regular computer. Such a super-virus can't happen simply because of the simplicity of the systems involved. The only way a virus or hack in general can infect a system is by exploiting a security hole found in software running on that system. There will be no code which is not user-generated, and as such there will be no OS or other program being run by everyone. This makes things more difficult because:
A. you will need a large array of attacks targeting a variety of exploits in commonly used software
B. if they are commonly used, they are likely more secure to begin with, as any vulnerabilities become evident in the field, and get more people reading through the code to ensure its safety
C. many users will write their own code, at least in part, on their own w/o sharing any of it; this may fall to an attack if it was poorly designed and falls into a common pitfall, but will be entirely immune to attacks targeting commonly used software
D. and all this assumes you even have enough access to interact with the computers; while they will have radio, most ships will probably have all but comms on a closed-system which is entirely inaccessible, and most programs probably won't even care about the radio, as it doesn't relate to them

[Rose]

1:Make awesome and really useful program.

2: leave backdoor.

3: profit.

[Trapezohedron]

1:Make awesome and really useful program.

2: leave backdoor.

3: profit.

Great, now I'm going have to gain a few skills in coding-fu to make sure I won't have to use other peoples' programs.

[Fiskav]

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[Rose]

We'll see how much it's worth it.