• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    I loved Snowcrash. I’m trying to convince my son to read it, but he’s got his summer reading list set, and we won’t alter it. He’s reading Crime & Punishment right now. I’m more likely to read Stephen King.

    Music is where I gravitate to the classics, Beethoven, Mozart, Charlie Parker, Pink Floyd, etc.

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I’ve always wanted a video game based on the pizza delivery in that book. Not the whole story just the skateboard and electromagnetic harpoon gun. Goal is too deliver pizzas as fast as possible, you don’t control speed though only which cars you grab onto. The cars have their own destination which may or may not match yours and will try to throw you off if and only if they notice you. Add in fun physics like cars turning onto a cross street but you’re on a rope so you extend(using momentum to go forward), retract (speeding up but dangerous to crash into wall) or disconnect (safe but slows you down and you need to find a new car). No “track” like a typical racing game. You have the city to travel around, you have the skill of using the harpoon as well as the skill of path tracing.

      I think it could be a fun game. I could probably do the logic with Unity or ue5 but totally lack the art skills…

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          15 minutes ago

          Yeah but as I said I suck at art so that’s either higher cost for me or cashing out and using real branding and getting paid for advertising…

      • vrek@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I used to play a game irl(not video) with friends where you have a start and a destination and the other person gives you a time. It was NOT a racing game, the quick ones were easiest. The goal was to get as close to the time given as possible without going over time. You could not stop(traffic lights and stop signs were fine for safety but no waiting in a parking lot) you could not drive over the same road multiple times(you could get on and off a highway but this was to prevent like driving around a round-a-bout for 30 minutes, yes I had a friend who was THAT asshole 😂 ). The hard challenges was like something 10 minutes away but given a time of 2 hours… How do you drive to waste 110 minutes but end up 10 minutes away? What are the chances of heavy traffic or an accident on that route delaying you? If you do end up in traffic and delayed 20 minutes, do you have a alternative route to catch up that time and still get to destination on time?

        It was actually fun, challenging and you really learned the roads. Now combine that with additional challenge of only having a skateboard and harpoon gun so you are limited to other drivers whims and intentions while being safe since it’s a video game… It could be tons of fun.