“The only difference between programming and games is that games have win conditions.”

  • wvstolzing@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I mean, this is cringe AF.

    Kotlin ‘built by communism’? Because the founders of JB are Russian? Is that it?

    Swift is ‘greed’ how? It’s open source since 2015 or so; & available on Linux. Apple’s graphical toolkits are ‘closed down’; & obviously restrict users’ freedoms; though not sure how that implies ‘monopoly’. ‘Monopoly’ would be trying to dominate all toolkits, not have one’s own.

    Vague word associations are cool, I guess.

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        Yes, Tetris was a real example of this. I think it was the only videogame the USSR ever produced exported.

        Edit: Actually I think I remembered that wrong. They had a healthy domestic arcade industry. It was just the only one they bothered to export.

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        Alexey Pajitnov. He worked for the government, and made Tetris in his spare time across several late nights at his shared workstation. It was a hobby project made out of boredom, not something designed for any ulterior purpose.

        He was a fan of those toy puzzle games where you have to fit shaped tiled pieces into a rectangular grid, so he decided to program a version of that for his workstation. When he succeeded with that, he found it rather boring to play with. So he spiced it up by making pieces fall from the top (to add challenge) and made them clear away when you completed rows (so the game would last longer). That’s pretty much it. Dead simple. Everything else from the iconic tile colors to the music were added by licensees later down the line.