Are programming games any good?
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I remember enjoying MindRover in the early 00s.
All games are anti-intellectual wastes of time.
There are plenty of options for games that actually require at least some thinking, and are less of a waste of time than posting on IQfy.
elaborate
The concept of playing games is common in animals, especially in their youth, to practice important skills that are going to be necessary for survival. In animals with extensive social behavior playing together also serves the important notion of bonding with peers or family. More specifically, when human children play catch or hide and seek they train multiple important abilities at once. Obviously running, keeping balance, hand coordination to some extent, but also hiding, closely observing as well as honing their hearing skills. Additionally, it trains them to think about what other participants - humans - do in this game and helps learn their behavioral patterns. As the saying goes, homosexual homine lupus. Computer gaymes discard of most of the bodily activity, so they are in essence perveted games, but they still can have the social aspects of games if they're multiplayer games. Singleplayer games are much more akin to watching a movie or a tv show. It van have beneficial influences too but those are often quite limited. In contrast to classical games computer games can be played for almost unlimited amounts of time and also have a substantially higher addiction potential. In essence, time spent on a computer gayme can often be spend more productive and healthier on an actual hobby. Instead of playing a programming game you could actually program, instead of playing through an rpg you could go fishing or do some woodworking. A hobby with tangible results does not only fill you with pride and purpose, other people can share your sense of accomplishment, so instead of solving something 5 million other monkeys in front of a screen did solve too to get their dayly fix of dopamine you could do something that actually challenges you and where you learn something instead of being a digital junky.
Dont care didnt read
Where did you find this copypasta? Cause it makes about as much sense as one.
don't care didn't read
>other people can share your sense of accomplishment
you mean completely ignore the mediocre work of art you just sculpted, mistreat it, and demand more?
HOLY AUTISM
"No!"
You WILL NOT have fun
You WILL be "productive"
You WILL work for the system
When are ((they)) going to start selling drugs that make working fun? Is it too much to ask for?
There's adderall
What is game theory?
Even Fire Emblem?
what about amogus
For me, its War In the East 2. I want to be prepared so the good side wins next time.
Game experts disagree.
This is not entirely correct though. Would you argue that reading is a waste of time because someone read "50 Shades of Grey"? or perhaps you would instead point out that there are good books and bad books.
In the same sense, I think that there are good and bad games. I only know English because I spent time trying to figure words playing Pokemon when I was a child. It is all relative to the material you're consuming and the contents.
/pol/dditors like you are going to set back the gene pool to fish era if we don't neuter you.
His response will be "good because trannies blah blah blah humanity deserves to die blah blah."
If he's a racist he's probably the least likely demographic to neuter his society. Nations which have failed to practice sufficient racist (ie. old india, southeast asia, america) are pretty much the continental equivalent of inmates running the asylum, a set of drooling morons pissing on the corpses of their ancestors without even knowing that they're doing it.
Zachtronics games are all pretty good
Shenzhen IO to feel like a chinese sweatshop worker
they're pretty fun but invariably at some point when I start getting into the more complex levels I start thinking to myself "why am I doing this instead of ACTUALLY programming something? then quit to work on something
This, and to a lesser extent sandbox games in general. I have a friend who keeps trying to get me to play Minecraft. I could build some cool and complex shit in that with enough time... But I could also make a personal project or add more pages to my site
This pretty much, if you wanted to play programming why not simply do some real programming? Low level stuff is as much fun as a puzzle game and you can make money out of it.
Only bad designed games have difficulty progression that makes tasks more similar to real programming. Programming games are kind of logic puzzles. Difficulty of levels should be linear and come from strict constrains and usual (execution) environments. While real programming usually have simple, predictable constrains and its difficulty comes from managing large code base, unclear goals, learning new technologies/libraries/apis/whatever, and dealing with boring bugs.
You play games for fun. If you find programming games fun then sure, they are good. Personally I prefer playing OpenTTD. But that is only because I think making train systems are fun. YMMV.
>Personally I prefer playing OpenTTD.
YWNBAW
https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/9189
https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/9203
https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/9228
Literally nothing wrong with those pull requests.
seething over the most pointless shit
just dont play multiplayer you mong
A shame Zachtronics will disband soon
Their games (minus the visuall novel) are the shit
>A shame Zachtronics will disband soon
w-what?
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-06-24-zachtronics-announces-closure
It fricking sucks, man.
Well thats heartbreaking, guess im hoping their last game’ll be a good sendoff
>they could have made Minecraft
It would've turned out less minecraft and more minetest
Notch was what gave it soul
Some of them
All Zachtronics programming games are great. Especially EXAPUNKS and TIS-100
>and more minetest
More like infinifactory
Also I just found: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1885690/Virtual_Circuit_Board/
I guess I will check it. I can't wait for some nice user friendly logic gate simulator.
Logic world is very promising, but it needs some serious quality of life improvements first.
Prime Mover is fun, but gets very hard quickly.
7 Billion Humans is nice too.
OCTOPTICOM is ok.
MHRD is literally just VHDL turned into video "game". There isn't much of game in it, but it's ok.
>more like (modded minecraft)
Sounds fun, but I don't think it'll ever become what minecraft is. Probably more like satisfactory than anything
infinifactory is not modded minecraft. It's another Zachtronic game.
Of course I know that. I'm just saying you get that already with modded, especially modern ones like create.
For me the same happens, but not with puzzle games which I do enjoy. I think the "humiliation" can be justified if it was actually me who was dumb, in that I knew the ruleset of the game beforehand, instead of having to figure out the mechanics as I go like in other genres.
Fuuuck. They were the only ones able to make actually good and unique programming games. All the other ones out there are just babbys first assembly, with a coat of visual paint, pretending to be a game.
Good.
Any gay that uses his first name as his company name is a complete nword.
>DUDE BRAYDEN-TECH
>WE'RE GONNA BE HUGE!
>nword
Black person
>"After that, the team will disband," Barth said. "We all have different ideas, interests, tolerances for risk, and so on, so we're still figuring out what we want to do next."
sounds like they got burned out
goddamn this is bleak. zachtronics games are a small light in the dark sea of trash vidya
This
>Opus magnum
>Easy game for babies
>So easy I quickly beat it in early access
>"Oh, you beat the game did ye? Want a free patch? Only shipping :^)"
>I did not redeem
At least I got the exapunks patch
Why would you "play" a programming game when you can program and actually create something that you can use at the same time?
Soulless drone.
>plays a programming game instead of program a game
ngmi
You seem to think that nobody ought to do anything with programming other than as just their day job. But sometimes it is nice to do a bit of coding just for fun, no deadlines, no code reviews, no requirements gathering meetings with potential customers who are ignorant bores who love the sound of their own voice.
Might as well just write a real program.
I love Robocode. I don't play it anymore, but when I was a teen it motivated me to improve my programming and learn data structures and trigonometry.
Usually not but TIS-100 is an exception - and so is MHRD although that's more about turning virtual NAND gates into computer hardware with a description language.
It's borderline mandatory gaming for developing programmers.
I'm currently playing Bitburner and liking it.
Dunno, puzzle games are a cycle of humiliation for me:
>See puzzle
>Feel dumb for not being able to solve it
>Figure it out painstakingly
>Harder puzzle comes up
Repeat ad nauseam.
I greatly enjoyed Exapunks. I also really liked: https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
>https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
That's pretty cool.
I got to 13 level with my first, simple idea.
The best rts pvp programming game that even makes you a millionaire if you are good at it is programming smart contracts
>colobot not mentioned
i am disappoint
Heya anon!
Well, it depends on a lot of things, mainly on the presentation.
If you liked TIS-100, you may enjoy their other creation named Shenzen I/O!
There are also other, lighter games such as Nite Team 4 (less programming skills, more clue finding and general knowledge in ARGs), and Hacknet.
If you want to find a good balance between the two types, I recommend you to check out Hackmud, I'm sure you will enjoy it.
Why does this post read like it was written by a HR department?