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I've been kicking around the idea for a game for a long time. Recently I
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went to play Rome: Total War and it broke, so now I'm going to write a
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game.
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It's roughly a space explore and colonize kind of a thing. Multiple
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species and civilizations (eventually multiplayer).
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I want to separate the UI from the Server and maybe have multiple
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clients? At least a Tkinter client to begin with and then maybe a cool
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"gamey" UI written with Godot or something.
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So far there is a canvas that is larger than the window and that you can
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scroll, and there are some stars that vary in size a little but they're
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all yellow. And that's it.
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I use some old code I had laying around to generate stars that are not
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too close to each other, it winds up being just under 5000 stars with the
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current parameters.
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The "server" isn't a server at all yet. It just generates the starfield
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so the UI script doesn't have to do it each time. I'm just using pickle
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for data format, eventually it could use JSON (ick) or SQLite (nice.)
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Aesthetics: maybe have a sprinkling of background stars behind the
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"real" stars (that are part of the game.)
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Toggle fullscreen.
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Controls? Tabs? HUD/OSD (heads up display/on screen display)
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Fri Apr 12 12:27:56 PDT 2024
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I think I will use SQLite as teh interchange file format. It's language
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agnostic (i mean, SQL, sure, but you can use it from any lang) and I can
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keep historical data in it rather than just the current state, eh? No
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one will freak out?
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That was easy.
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I don't want to spend too much time fiddling with the widgets and UI,
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it's fun but it's a bit of a rabbit hole, eh?
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The basic model is that you get a state db from the server, explore it
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with the client and queue up an order list to send back to the server for
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processing, which then returns the new state db.
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What format for the order codes?
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Thun code?
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THe db tables and game data types should be compatible with Prolog?
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I don't want to have a bunch of Python objects modelling the game
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entities if possible, what I mean is, it would be neat if the db rows
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(tuples of Python ints & strings) and the Tk widgets (canvas items, etc.)
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could be the bulk of the internal game, uh, stuff. Not everything needs
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to be a class?
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Sat Apr 13 11:13:18 PDT 2024
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I don't like the Poisson star layout. It's too regular. I'd like it if
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there was a really huge "space", like 2^10 x 2^10 with stars laid out in
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a spiral pattern like the Galaxy. Or even use real astro data (like, uh,
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is it Epic that does that?)
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But it's not on the critical path. I've got stars.
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[VGA Planets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vga_planets) is a big
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inspiration.
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> the 4X game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate) model
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[4X game](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X_game)
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Sat Apr 13 13:10:19 PDT 2024
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I took a look at the real Milky Way and man is it ever big. Thouands of
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star clusters with thousands of stars each... I was looking at an image
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of the core and letting my mind expand to try to encompass it and I got
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really spacey/high, in a good way.
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There's a tension between versimilitude (fidelity to the real data) and
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making something easy to write and fun to play. It would be simple
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enough to generate crude cartoon worlds, and a detailed realistic galaxy
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might be kinda boring (to play.) If you want to (virtually) explore the
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real galaxy there are resources for that.
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In any event, I think the way forward is to generate something nice now
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and upgrade it later. I don't want to get side-tracked, I want to stay
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mostly on the critical path.
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