katamaritaco

You're correct, the industry has not moved to C#. Not even close.

The biggest player that uses it is Unity, but even they have their own special fork of Mono to get it to play nice.

Full Disclosure: I work for a Microsoft/Xbox Studio.

The comparison to a WW2 tank in the Black Forest isn't great though, because the environments live on different timescales.

A forest can regrow and thrive after a few decades. The same is _not_ true for the deep sea[1].

'Life on the ocean floor moves at a glacial pace. Sediment accumulates at a rate of 1 millimeter every millennium. With such a slow rate of growth, areas disturbed by deep-sea mining would be unlikely to recover on a reasonable timescale.'

[1]: https://news.mit.edu/2019/understanding-impact-deep-sea-mini...

Tanya Short and Tarn Adams (of DF) are collaborating again for a new book built around procedural storytelling that is set to release soon. [1]

[1] https://www.crcpress.com/Procedural-Storytelling-in-Game-Des...

It's an online only game. If this would really take you 3 days to download, you wouldn't be able to play it anyways...

I'd consider asking them how _they_ felt about their experience/the company/procedures/etc..

Getting fresh eyes from an intern can provide valuable insight into things you're doing right, and things that could be improved.

I'm not sure about that, but this kit comes from the Lego Ideas suggestion created in January 2016.

https://ideas.lego.com/projects/388ddbe3-2f0a-42fb-9f54-93bf...

I had a blast with TIS-100 and Shenzhen I/O when they came out, but for some reason I never picked up Infinifactory until yesterday. I'm so glad I did.

Zachtronics games give me that feeling of zen that is increasingly harder to find in games nowadays - the "Oh dang it is 2am already, I thought it was like 9pm!".

I'd recommend checking out the aforementioned titles, as well as some of the 'other games' on the website[1], like Ruckingenur-II.

[1]: http://www.zachtronics.com/ruckingenur-ii/

FWIW as well, linguists use different styles of IPA too, depending on the language families they most often work with.

Because of how it is used, IPA isn't really the 'one true standard' many would think it is.

Although I don't see eye tracking in games as 'the next big thing' in any sense (the few I've tried were severely lacking in the fun department), I would be interested to try playing Soma with this.

Soma had some flaws to be sure, but damn did it do some things really well. I'd highly recommend it - eye tracking or no.

Dang I'm excited for this. After not being able to get a lego curiosity rover for a reasonable price, I'm hoping these won't sell out instantly...

Found another one: Gestures Galour -> Galore

For what it is worth, numbers are not necessarily a 'universal concept'.

One of the most talked about examples is Piraha[0], a language which doesn't really represent numbers. This is interesting because a study done by Everett and Frank[1] shows that this can actually have effects on cognition, providing some evidence for the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis[3]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027708...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Yeah, I'd also be curious as to how this library could be improved. Also, I could be wrong, but isn't this only in Cloudflare's fork of the language?