2023, Week 27 in Review

This week has been spent between the postmortem of a huge deployment at work and my rebuilding of The Kabal Invasion project. While working on rebuilding TKI I stumbled upon Steem Nova a rebuild of 2Moons . The game has similarities to TKI which itself is a fork of BlackNova Traders ; except unlike TKI and BNT in Steem Nova the player remains on a planet, and sends fleets of ships to explore the universe and do their bidding at distance.

One thing I do enjoy about finding source code of these games is seeing how different programmers solved the same or similar problems; they are also great sources of inspiration for game mechanics that I might want to include in future games.

Joke of the week

Notable Articles Read

• Kaarel Moppel: TIL - IN is not the same as ANY
• Cassidy James Blaede: Mastodon-powered Blog Comments
• Another Angry Woman: Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift

Notable Videos Watched

• bitluni: I made a VGA card that blew my mind
• Jeff Lait: Roguelike on Watch

Cool things from around the internet

• Cassidy James Blaede: Mastodon-powered Blog Comments
• Another Angry Woman: Scams upon scams: The data-driven advertising grift
• ITNX: Conquest 4000, a game based on TradeWars 2002
• Worlds Apart, Trade Wars 2002 game server
• WyeSoft, TradeWars 2002 server
• Lorenzo: Clotilde Soffritti in: Never Buy a Used Spaceship a cool looking point and click adventure game with a cartoon aesthetic. Found via Ramón Wilhelm
• Femo Duo Entertainment: Enclosure 3-D on Steam , a text-parser graphic adventure game inspired by classics of the genre and horror movies of the 80s. Found via @mausimus
• DOS Days: A 286 Running Like a 386