This whole thread has me re-evaluating my prior assessments of "Ender's Game" and the Mind Game it described.
When the book came out I was a child programmer and I had total contempt for the idea that a player could just decide to burrow into the eye of the giant and that the engine would generate a result.
I was used to Sierra games where you'd click an inventory item on something you saw and the game would tell you "there's nothing useful you can do with that."
When the book came out I was a child programmer and I had total contempt for the idea that a player could just decide to burrow into the eye of the giant and that the engine would generate a result.
I was used to Sierra games where you'd click an inventory item on something you saw and the game would tell you "there's nothing useful you can do with that."