miniblog.

Watching Hytale vs Minecraft discourse reminds me of how games feel different when they're new. Single player games have an online discussion that occurs shortly after release. Multiplayer games rapidly develop a meta. I tried UT99 years after release and it wasn't as much fun.

Watching https://youtu.be/KWB-gDVuy_I and I'm struck by how weird constructors are as an API. * They promote total functions, making it hard to do validation. * They're hard to split up, because they have special access to unfinished data. * They're like a framework: you get called.

I enjoyed watching this documentary on RuneScape (an MMO game): its MUD origins, the challenge of complex 3D models making iteration more expensive, and the team culture around it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNK0YBdwko