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by NohatCoder
646 days ago
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To me at least, the great value of this site is that people can and do write their honest opinion. Maybe the style of the parent comment wasn't that good, but I agree with the take that there does not seem to be much of value in the project, it enables a style of game that has been done to death by amateurs and indies, and there are probably better tools out there for making that kind of game as well. Braid features actual novelty in game design, enabled exactly by not using an engine with a fixed view on how a game works. I don't see how this compares. |
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What style of game is that? I guess RPG? I think that's just because it was a convenient way to demo the concept.
The two interesting things about this, AFAICT, are that it enables mutable state during development in an interesting way, possibly allowing for repl-driven development of running games. That's neat. Like, play the game, get to a point where (for example) the game balance isn't right, and pop into a REPL to make adjustments. And possibly, rewind and replay the scenario in the process to try alternatives, which is related to point 2:
If this is using a datomic-style model, it's presumably keeping an immutable history, allowing for both an interesting development environment (where you can play, rewind, adjust, replay, etc) and interesting new gameplay possibilities.
I don't think anybody is suggesting that game devs should immediately jump on board and start developing on this platform. Again: I don't get the hostility. "Hey, here's a neat little game engine based on unfamiliar concepts." "That's dumb, nobody could develop a AAA game on that today, you should be ashamed for posting it!!" Just...chill out a smidge.