#Incremental

[entropy-game-dev]

Phylogenesia Automatorum is out!! A roguelite / incremental / life simulation hybrid

Download it here!

Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on my entry for the New Years Incremental Game Jam 2024, and I finally submitted it late last night.

It's a silly little game where you tend to your garden of digital plants, hoping to generate enough Life and Death points when they spawn/die respectively, in order to buy more plants, mutate their characteristics, and expand the field in which they live.

Mutations and field properties will directly (and indirectly) change the plants' behavior on both a local and global level, with some very interesting and unexpected results. Numbers going up isn't always better either too, as, if you upgrade their stats too much, you might make a superplant that chokes the life out of the rest of your simulation and other plants!!

(Oh, and my friend did the music for this game, and it's awesome - each plant as their own instrument/track and they layer on top of each other as you buy more!)

It's a roguelite in the sense that each run you will be choosing between random upgrades, plants, and field tiles with various effects between simulation runs in order to try and maximize your point gains and stay ahead of the reset cost. It's not totally balanced (as it was whipped up in 2 weeks), but with a bit of knowledge and juuuust a hint of luck, you can make almost any run pop off! The goal is to buy all 10 plants and have them all produce points within a single run (representing a diverse garden or something, rather than a monocrop).

As I mentioned previously, it's based heavily on Conway's Game of Life, as I am a huge sucker for incrementals with hypnotizing visuals that change and evolve as you interact with the various systems at play. I took this idea, added a bunch of plants that are variations on the standard ruleset, and went from there.

You might also notice that I used some assets from Stellar Terminus, namely, the 3 sound effects, fonts, color palette, and, retro computer theming. I swear I can do other styles, just, er, not in 2 weeks when I already had quite an ambitious idea!

Over the coming days I'll post some more about the development of it, how I implemented certain systems, and a post mortem. You can probably imagine how datastructures-heavy this game was. In the end I had 1 object that ran the entire simulation, 1 that displayed the breakdown of how each plant was doing, and like 20+ objects for UI...

For now though? I'd love for you to try it out, play a few runs, and hear your thoughts on it!!

#gamedev #videogame #gamemaker #devblog #programming #indiedev #cellular automata #incremental #pixel art #roguelite #simulation #life sim

[pratchettquotes]

800th Post: A Reflection on Increments*

Some jobs offer increments. This one offered--well, quite the reverse, but at least it was in the warm and fairly easy to get the hang of. After a while he got into the rhythm of it, and started playing the private little quantity-surveying game that everyone plays in these circumstances. Let's see, he thought, I've done nearly a quarter, let's call it a third, so when I've done that corner by the hayrack it'll be more than half, call it five-eighths, which means three more wheelbarrow loads. ...It doesn't prove anything very much except that the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Terry Pratchett, Mort

*Here, Mort Sto Helit demonstrates the same incremental psychology in his stable work which all tumblr users have refined. When I first started this blog I thought I'd see if I could share 1,000 Pratchett quotes. Let's see, another two hundred posts will be a thousand posts. That's two hundred days, call it six months, which is only half of a year....

#mort sto helit #binky #mort #discworld #terry pratchett #work #manual labor #cleaning #inner monologue #mental math #incremental #coping mechanisms #goals #the awesome splendor of the universe #a series of small chunks #footnotes for followers #tumblr milestone

[ratedjo]

dreamcore95idle.exe

Creator's Description: CAN YOU ESCAPE YOUR DREAMS?

Le leggere ciocche di memoria si mescolano a gocce di sogni. The flowing strands of memory mix with droplets of dreams.

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Developer: Atovange Engine: Godot Price: Free/ Name your price Download: Itch.io

#free #itch.io #name your own price #godot #atovange #Casual #Clicker #dreamcore #Idle #Incremental #Pixel Art #Short #Singleplayer #vaporwave

[ayuranslounge]

Out of all of the 'optimise until you have built a machine to eat the planet' have that I have played (which isn't a ton) bit burner has been the only one to actually make me want to optimise.

I think it comes down to the fact that the main limiting factor to how far you go is primarily up to you.

There's a limit to how deep into the network you can go when you scan-analyse. But nothing is stopping you from long through the entire network if you know how to script it.

Yeah every script is killed off when you reset. But so are all the programs on your pc when you reboot. Your pc has a boot sequence. Robots have an initialisation phase. You can just... program something that gets you everything you need on a fresh startup.

Again. The only limiting factor is your imagination.

Feel like your basic hacking script is not efficient enough? Work on creating a process manager which tells all your little bots what to do.

Heck. The entire game is a browser with javascript. Redesign the ui to make it better for you.

Hack the game about hacking.

And by the end of it you'll understand enough to hack all the idle browser games.

#you really do need to understand or be willing to learn some coding techniques to play it #it does also have some limitations to what you can do #though half of the fun is working out how to bypass those limitations #and then you can have the philosophical debate about when the game about hacking has been hacked too much #bitburner #idle game #incremental #gaming #coding

[howifeltabouthim]

There's a simple small line at the mouth of hell. It's not a big deal when you get there. It's just another step is all.

Lisa Taddeo, from Animal

#hell #descent #incremental #gradual #rock bottom #undoing #what a line #quotes #lit #words #excerpts #quote #literature #lisa taddeo #animal

[cnu-newurbanism]

Great Idea 4: Incremental development

Great places are built in small increments, and urbanists are restoring America's know-how and capacity for small-scale development by many individuals in their own communities. Do you want to be a small developer? Read more.

#great ideas #new urbanism #urban design #urbanism #cities #walkability #development #small #incremental

[drnic1]

Rethinking the Timing of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

Rethinking the Timing of Medical Diagnosis and Treatment

This week I am talking to John Martin, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Butterfly Network, Inc. (@ButterflyNetInc) who is revolutionizing the traditional practice of medicine by adding imaging capabilities to the doctor’s tool bag earlier in the diagnosis and treatment process of patients. John’s career started in vascular surgery where he found his ability to bring about positive change to patients’…

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#AI #butterfly #Cancer #Communication #Digital Health #DigitalHealth #Disruptive #education #Healthcare #Healthcare Technology #image #imaging #Incremental #Incremental Healthcare #IncrementalHealth #iPhone #Machine Learning #Medical Devices #Medical Education #Medical School #Medicine #patients #physical examination #physician #question #skill #Technology #TheIncrementalist #ultrasound

[offineedssocial]

#incremental #succession #incremento salarial #corporategifting #corporate greed #toontown corporate clash #Instagram

[ukdamo]

Bathtime

One of mine

As I lay there

the water rose steadily

and the rhythm of my breathing

afforded it a sleepily tide-like quality.

Little by little,

the water crept along my torso

from navel to nipple:

submerging by degrees,

abdomen and chest.

Soothing burblings from the tap

and the water’s womb-like warmth

promised security.

Thus was I slow to perceive the menace:

if I remained passive,

I would surely drown.

I sat upright

and turned off the tap.

© Damian September 1993

#damian's writing #bathtime #bath #deconstruction #incremental #danger

[yourlocalgooberr]

does anyone have any recommendations for some incremental games that are sort of obscure with really big numbers

#incremental games #incremental

[entropy-game-dev]

Phylogenesia Automatorum Post-game Devlog #1: Idea conception

In this series of posts, I'll take you through my thought processes in coming up with and developing the game I release for the New Years Incremental Game Jam 2024. But first, if you aren't familiar with my game, please go and try it out for yourself first! And if you want, you can also rate it and check the other cool entries out!

My favourite part of any incremental/idle is having some nice accompanying visuals that are directly impacted by the decisions that you've made. I really can't remember how I began thinking of Conway's Game of Life in this context, but I thought this would be an amazing jumping-off point for an incremental game.

I quickly implemented the very simple rules (the left image). Counts of cells in the 8 surrounding cells are needed to progress the simulation, so I have a debug overlay of the counts for each cell. Each tick, the simulation progresses according to the following rules:

If there are exactly 3 live cells surrounding an empty cell, on the next tick, that cell becomes live on the next tick

If there are between 2-3 live cells surrounding a live cell, that cell persists to the next tick

If the above is not true, the live cell dies on the next tick and becomes empty again

When defining this with code, I quickly realised a cell is defined by 4 values organised into two ranges: its spawn range (3-3) and sustain range (2-3). I then thought it would be interesting to see how another "organism" with different ranges would change the dynamics of the system.

I coded in a second type of cell, which I had termed the Voidberry. It had a spawn range of 0-8 and a sustain range of 0-8. This meant it could spawn anywhere, but I decided to make the simulation probabilistic by giving it a spawn chance of 2% and a spontaneous death chance of 80%. While Conway's original rules were completely deterministic, I felt this would limit the types of cells I would be able to create. So now we have 6 parameters total.

In the right picture, you can see how the Voidberry disturbs a stable formation of original Conway cells, making it disintegrate over the following ticks.

These two cells would go on to have the following sprites in the game:

I knew I wanted to modify these values and so I also wrote some simple code to tally up how much were spawning and dying, too. I didn't know how quite I'd be using them at the time, but these would go on to become the Life and Death points that drive the player's influence and progression in the final game...

And that's it for Part 1! Thanks for reading and I'll have more for you guys very soon!

#gamedev #videogame #gamemaker #devblog #pixel art #programming #indiedev #codeblr #incremental #idle games #roguelike #simulation

[exceltricks]

#BigBets #Controllinginstrument #EasyWins #ExcelDatei #ExcelVorlage #Excel-Tool #Impact-Effort-Matrix #Incremental #MoneyPit

[jkumari]

https://bigul.co/en/index.php/rbis-phased-reduction-of-incremental-cash-reserve-ratio-what-you-need-to-know/

#RBI #RBINews #FinancialStability #CRRChange #crr #Cash #cashreserveratio #banking #RBIGovernor #Incremental #CashReserveRatio #ICRR #Liquidity

[nazoltd]

Buy Baumer H0G71-DN-1024-CI-12H7

#baumer #h0g71-dn-1024-ci-12h7 #incremental #encoder

[ameliakeli]

Move Dropbox Data to SharePoint With All Incremental Changes

https://www.cloudfuze.com/move-dropbox-data-to-sharepoint/

#Dropbox #Sharepoint #Incremental #Changes

[xbsoftware]

Iterative Development vs. Incremental Development: Spotting the Differences and Choosing the Best

There are many different approaches, methodologies, and methods used during software development that help to get the best result. Thus, when you start a new project, it is important to decide how all the product specifications and customer requests will be met. In general, most of the methods follow an iterative or incremental development framework. Therefore, it is vital to know the difference between these two to understand which method is the better one in your particular case. So, let’s dive into the details.

#outsourcing #software development #web development #staff augmentation #custom software development #it staff augmentation #custom software solutions #it staffing company #it staff offshoring #custom software #iterative #incremental