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Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui

Show HN: A terminal-native idle factory game, written in Rust with ratatui

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Comments (26)

  • gigel82
    I'm a big idle / automation games aficionado but this just doesn't work in the terminal, sorry. It's not visually pleasing, the UI is simply too busy to work well there.
  • Joker_vD
    > It is made to sit in a split next to your AI agents. They can send you short messages that show up in the game, so you can play while they work.> Agent messages> Your AI agents can message you inside the game. A message costs the agent only the words in it, and nothing prints on success. Messages wait while the game is closed.It's kinda amazing how the ancient "local mail" technology keeps getting reinvented, you know, and reintegrated inside the gameplay? NetHack had its its "mail demon" since... (googles) version 1.0.2, in April 1985 — the creature would spawn in the game, deliver you a scroll of mail, and vanish. And apparently, it's still in use nowadays? "On public servers such as nethack.alt.org, a user may observe other users' games and communicate with them by sending mail."
  • george_max
    It's an interesting game, I love the hacker-like look to it. But is the only value proposition here that it runs in a terminal?To me, it could be interesting for ~10 minutes, and I'd then prefer playing a game like Factorio.
  • ivanjermakov
    Why every factory game is about mining/smelting iron and copper? Aren't there more intersting industrial processes?
  • wongarsu
    Reminds me of Dwarf Fortress's original ASCII UI
  • chaz6
    Nice! I wonder if you could have an option to use the icons available in Nerd Fonts in addition to plain ascii?
  • yoyohello13
    Pretty neat looking! I'll need to try it out on Monday ;)
  • nickpsecurity
    If it runs fast and low resource, it could be a nice testbed for agent architectures. I'm thinking old-school planners, genetic programming, ML techniques, etc.Especially integrating planners or logic-based approaches with ML models. The old architectures for StarCraft were great at building and micro-managing units but terrible at assessing or adapting to enemy strategy. Hybrid architectures can address that.Games like yours, esp different styles or requirements, can be used to prove how well the techniques generalize.
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