https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=39946 <p><h1>Nibble in Cyberspace: #Digipres Adventures, Volume 1</h1></p> <p>Nibble lives in cyberspace but their very reality is crumbling before them. Help Nibble fight entropy itself by following good #digipres practice - collect strategy and policy to actively tackle the degradation of the digital world around them. Along the way, avoid <em>all</em> the risks, viruses, physical damage, power surges; and try and get your score high enough to avoid the complete collapse of cyberspace.</p> <p>Nibble is an infinity game. The game will eventually self-destruct, but can you prolong its existence by following good practice?</p> <p>Nibble in Cyberspace teaches players that good digital preservation will help our digital materials last longer, but there is a cost to inaction as well. Players are invited to get the highest score they can before the eventual collapse of everything around.</p> <p>After all, you can't beat entropy, but you can fight it as long as you try.</p> <p> <table><tr><td> <a href="/bbs/?pid=67658#p"> <img src="/bbs/thumbs/pico8_nibble_in_cyberspace_vol1-0.png" style="height:256px"></a> </td><td width=10></td><td valign=top> <a href="/bbs/?pid=67658#p"> nibble_in_cyberspace_vol1</a><br><br> by <a href="/bbs/?uid=39946"> ross-spencer</a> <br><br><br> <a href="/bbs/?pid=67658#p"> [Click to Play]</a> </td></tr></table> </p> <p><h2>Notes on game-play:</h2></p> <p>In-game memory is actively corrupted as the player hits digital preservation risks such as viruses. Memory is corrupted at random. To a limited extent the player can &quot;put memory back&quot; by looking for good digital preservation practices in the game. The random decay of memory is designed to demonstrate to players the effect of bit rot in real time and demonstrate how its effect will be insidious, and different every time.</p> <p><h2>Colophon:</h2></p> <p>A Nibble is a 4-bit subset of a byte (8-bits); part of a byte.</p> <p><h2>More information</h2></p> <p>Thanks all for checking out my first game! I've a few things to iron out, and some code to clean up. I'm hosting the game on Github as well <a href="&amp;quot;https://ross-spencer.github.io/nibble/&amp;quot;">Github Pages</a>. I'd love your feedback, and hopefully I'll wrap this up and place it into the finished carts soon enough. </p> <p>If anyone else has done any similar work, corrupting in-game memory, then I'd love to hear more and play those games also. One of the things I am looking to do next with nibble is protect the nibble sprites themselves so they aren't corrupted as the game progresses. I'd like to explore other corruption methods as well. </p> <p>Anyway, thanks again everyone. Keep up the good work.</p> https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=35348 https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=35348 Sat, 14 Sep 2019 10:36:19 UTC