#simulated engine

[cosmicportal]

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see”

~Leonardo Da Vinci

[redkehlchen]

Engineer is the first to figure out that something is up with those robots… 🤔

I still have a bunch of ideas for this AU and just wanted to draw some of those scenes! :)

This takes place directly after Portal 1, since Chell isn‘t dragged back down into the facility. So she doesn‘t know Wheatley yet and Doug is still around!

[themostop]

[blorbocedes]

Round 15 - Singapore Grand Prix: Marina Bay Circuit. Sunday 18 September 2016. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes AMG, 1st Position, celebrates in Parc Ferme. World Copyright: Andrew Hone/LAT Photographic

I believe that's what the kids call aura

[thefirstknife]

Sundial mentioned! Random lines in one of the battlegrounds. It feels like not even Ikora knows the full extent of it. The "paracausal disruption" is, I assume, the shotgun. It's what tied us to Saint and made sure we're only ever interacting with one of them. Most importantly, with the right one, contrary to what Saint believes now.

I feel like the shotgun might be brought up somehow again. They already told us Perfect Paradox will return in Act 2, but it's not available yet. So maybe at a specific point during the story? Either next week or week after. Maybe it might be a point to convince Saint or explain things to him. Eagerly waiting to see if any of this will be further explored; the Sundial, what we did to save Saint and the Perfect Paradox are all fairly important.

[okergamedev]

Colorcat Evolution is out!

This game simulates evolution and natural selection using colorful three-legged cat creatures. Their colours represent their stats: overall brightness is health, amount of red is speed, green is defense, and blue is how social they are. The kitties will roam their little world and occasionally produce offspring by mixing their genes with each other, and the offspring will be slightly mutated... or not so slightly, if you choose to raise the radiation levels. The genetic changes will accumulate over time and gradually affect the entire population. You can play around with the initial setup of the simulation and natural conditions during it, and even control the critters and try to ensure the survival of their families yourself. Hope you have fun! Let me know if you have any suggestions and whatnot.

[whirligig-girl]

reintroducing... Railway Misconductor

I made a big list of names for the project formerly called Train Puzzle dot exe (title pending) including various proposals from myself and some of the people who responded to my call soliciting names for the game. Thanks to all those on tumblr and various discord servers who contributed names. Then me and @msasterisk (and @wisdomsavingthrow too since you can't vote with a small even number of participants) ran through a double elimination tournament bracket, discussing each of the options.

The winning name is Railway Misconductor. (For the record, the runners-up were Shunt Everything!, Go Shunt Yourself, and Train Puzzle dot exe (title pending)).

For those just joining us, Railway Misconductor is a game under development by myself and @msasterisk, based on several model railroad switching layouts, including Inglenook Sidings and Timesaver, as well as various other inspirations and original puzzles. It takes place on Gymnome, an alien planet inhabited by amorphous agender bipeds, the Gymnomi Slimes, and more specifically, on the South Lymer Railroad (the SLYM). You operate SLYM No.11513, a modern Advanced Steam tank engine on various yard switching duties of increasing complexity.

There will be minimal story, but the characters--the orange Conductor, who relays the orders from dispatch or the yard manager to the player and has to go throw the switches, and the blue Engineer, who runs the locomotive itself--will have dialogue tying into the player's progression.

There is no release timeline.

[carnivorousarcher]

back to my roots with this one (drawing skinned android, now even MORE skinned. just endoskeleton)

[l-1-z-a]

🧠💾🛠️ I've always had a fascination with The Sims franchise and I am currently looking to get into programming. How was The Sims created? What programs were used (Python, Java, etc.)? What programs and computer languages would I need to learn to emulate this sort of game? - Quora

Answer by Eric Bowman:

I was part of the core Sims team. The first Sims code was written by Jamie Doornbos, later I joined him along with Don Hopkins; the three of us wrote pretty much all of the core code using Visual C++ and used a lot of STL. We also adapted an internal Maxis framework called Gonzo, written by a few people including Paul Pedriana (Paul later drove EASTL). I ended up rewriting a lot of Gonzo specifically for The Sims, but it was a nice windowing abstraction to get started with. I'm still quite proud of my text edit widget, which had all kinds of features totally unnecessary for a computer game, but I had a little time to kill while the game play was coming together.

I think the precursor to the original character animation code was written by Jacques Servin, who was responsible for the famous SimCopter easter egg (SimCopter) and is now one of the Yes Men (in an odd twist of fate, along with a college acquaintance of mine, Igor Vamos). Or maybe Jamie helped him with that, I honestly can't remember.

We wrote a ton of code as a small team, and it was 100% C++ -- there wasn't a single line of assembly code in The Sims, at least not in the core code. By the time it shipped we were using a few internal EA libraries as well, in particular for font rendering. We also didn't use 3d acceleration at all, which turned out to be a good call for massive market penetration. We hit a sweet spot in terms of CPU requirements for smooth gameplay and Moore's Law. We also had basically no unit tests; back then Real Programmers didn't test their own code, which led to an army of testers (who were amazing) and basically a lot more pain that necessary. I'm really happy the world moved toward automated unit testing since then.

Jamie created the "tree language" which gave the characters behavior, which they received from the objects they interacted with. Patrick Barrett was the first and probably greatest tree programmer of them all, and added a huge amount to the game.

One thing that I recall is that the original prototype for The Sims, written by Jamie (in C++) was written for the Mac. When he ported it to Windows, he introduced some Mac-like data abstraction layer to make the Mac code work on Windows, and some of that survived in the shipped game. That must have made porting it back to the Mac particularly interesting (as did my somewhat flagrant use of the DirectX APIs in a way that I'm still embarrassed by).

One thing we considered doing was using Swatch Internet Time which looked like it might take off there for a minute or two, and that would have been an interesting twist how time worked in the game.

There is an ok history of The Sims at the Will-Wright Fansite ::.

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[lomotunes2008]

I don't know if anyone cares or not, but I ran a memorial service in honour of Britt Allcroft yesterday

(In Train Sim, of course)

[gebo4482]

DEAD LETTER DEPT.

[mumblesplash]

i realize pointing this out will make a bunch of people notice it for the first time but idc: i think one of my funniest art weaknesses is i lowkey cannot draw boobs. i can bs my way around them enough to get by but they just do not make sense to my brain and i constantly forget they exist

[redkehlchen]

Some old TF2/Portal crossover doodles! :)

[thedeafprophet]

[sad sunglasses emoji]

[linkedspirit-fanartfunart]

Look out its a Linkblr Dashboard Simulator!

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🪶 redwingskies Follow

So who was gonna tell me the Surface is Real, huh? Who.

🎶 ocarina-macarina Follow

Where are you from?? What....what are you??? ....God?

🪶 redwingskies Follow

Nah turns out she's my best friend though.

🪶 redwingskies Follow

Hey btw, If I kill a god does that make me one? Is there like. Rules for this? Asking for a friend. (Like seriously. I don't care. He does.)

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🚋 train-life Follow

Today's Fact: Did you know Trains are the reason New Hyrule has Standardized Time Zones? As citizens needed to know when to get to a train station, the council lobbied for standardized time that could be applied precisely for travel by train! The entire modern perception of time is because of the Train!

⌛️ forestchild Follow

Thanks, I hate it. Lets go back to living by the sun rise and set.

🌸 dont-look-at-me Follow

??? We've always had standard time zones??? What are you talking about. Trains didn't invent that.

🚋 train-life Follow

...they literally did. I re-researched this to double check. What are YOU talking about?

🌸 dont-look-at-me Follow

Time zones? Like. The era of Legend, the Golden era, bullfish like that?

🚋 train-life Follow

... you can swear you know? I'm 12 not a baby.

🌊 kingoftheseagull Follow

you're HOW OLD? I thought you were a Royal Engineer???

🚋 train-life Follow

12? It's in my bio?

🌊 kingoftheseagull Follow

I love you but get the hell off of this website why are you here

🌟 excuuuse-me Follow

Can we go back to the weirdo who thinks Time Zones are HISTORICAL PERIODS?

🌸 dont-look-at-me Follow

Haha yea total weirdo, what, are they like 400 years old or something? Lol

🐴 goatman4life Follow

Actually I wanna get back to why a 12 year old has a job

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🐟 indigo-gos-official Follow

Hey anybody willing to lend me bail money? I'm short like 10 rupees and it's really annoying.

⌛️ forestchild Follow

Wait shit wrong account! Wrong account!!

🐴 goatman4life Follow

Why do you have access to a hyper-famous Zora Band's account??

⌛️ forestchild Follow

Their lead guitarist died in front of me and I am very nice. Now get me out of jail goatman.

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🌳 wildflowerwastaken Follow

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#hi #i saw a cool bird today #the camera was left on selfie mode so it only got a picture of me squinting at it #the bird noticed the flash and it pecked me until I fell out of the tree #straight into a malice puddle #the bird was pretty tho #so I say my day went great!

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🌟 excuuuse-me Follow

Hey apparently I need to update people on my boundaries. So. Here is a list of what's okay:

Hugging

Kissing me

Kissing me directly on the lips

👀

Parasocial relationships where you praise me constantly <3

And this is NOT okay

Hunting me for my blood to revive the prince of darkness

Ignoring me

Thank you, that's really all, I'm kinda sad that this has to be said but clarity is wisdom and all.

👑 princess-of-hyrule Follow

Link. This is not what I told you to post.

🌟 excuuuse-me Follow

Well EXUSe ME if my boundaries look different than yours!!

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⚒️ smol-smithy Follow

Hey pulled the Four Sword again so we need help figuring out who gets to run the blog lol.

Thanks everybody

⏳️ forestchild Follow

Lol this loser doesn't know how to make sideblogs

🎶 ocarina-macarina Follow

The poll says "Who gets to be Link on MAIN" though, so maybe they do? They just wanna have one person in charge of the first blog?

⏳️ forestchild Follow

The path to truth is unity. Many voices can be heard within one "main".

-The Diety

⏳️ forestchild Follow

...ignore him, I've made him a sideblog and he refuses to use it.

⚒️ smol-smithy Follow

Hey wait no let him come back, he's the only smart person I've ever heard

-Green (?)

⚒️ smol-smithy Follow

I am going to kill you.

#we have all agreed to not utilize this blog until the poll is complete #so shut up green

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