SpindleyQ

SpindleyQ , vor 18 Tagen an Random Englisch

Booted up the Riven remake this evening. It's been a few years since I first played through the original.

It feels.... patient. Like I've been playing for hours and have barely met any puzzles. I've met my share of mysteries, some of which I remember the answers to, and some of which are hazy. I've run into obstacles. But I don't have a mental todo list, like I usually would in this sort of game. That still feels incredibly novel, 27 years later.

SpindleyQ , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

had the idle thought, "I wonder whatever happened to OpenCroquet, Alan Kay's weird open-source peer-to-peer distributed 3D multiplayer Smalltalk thing from like 2006?"

turns out that project was shut down for quite a while, but in 2024 it's back as croquet.io, PaaS vendor for the metaverse. siiiiiigh.

apparently for a brief period the tech was rebranded as "Immersive Terf®" and hoo boy is that ever a cursed marketing PDF now. they've since cancelled that trademark.