I learned a ton about how to write video games from the Marathon 2 source, but it's also a bit of a time capsule for an era of OSs designed to be essentially single process, high performance GUI interfaces with a single root user. A technical cul-de-sac but nevertheless built with craft.

I also learned is that Apple's core software was super efficient. I spawned enemy types based on RAM usage, and the Finder ended up as the weak Drone because it only used 2 MB of RAM to run the whole desktop windowing interface. I forced it to be a stronger enemy to avoid accidental Finder kills.

But that meant that even if you shot a process in the face with the SPNKR, it might not actually have enough cycles to actually die. In early versions you'd quit Marathon and see all the apps you killed quickly close as they finally got time to respond to the kill command.

This design was a remnant of an OS designed for single user performance, and it was great for games. A game loop could just never yield and burn all of the available CPU time on running and rendering. Which is of course what Marathon did.

Classic MacOS used "cooperative multitasking" which meant that the foreground process got nearly all the CPU time and background processes were essentially frozen. Foreground processes were expected to explicitly yield time back to the OS to allow other apps to breathe.

I thought this was kind of a funny way to tie my interests in video games to an OS class, but I actually learned a lot about the OS in the process. My Marathon Process Manager ran on MacOS 9, the last OS before Apple shifted to the Unix-based OS X. There were some problems.

The idea was blatantly copied from Dennis Chao's DOOM-based Linux process manager a year or two before. His page about that project is still up! www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flak...

Unreal was so indie back then

Legit want to ship a game that only has settings that make the game worse. "Mouse Latency" or "Upside Down Mode" or "Indie Level (Low/Medium/High)" (this one applies a mosaic filter to the frame until it becomes lower res than a tamagotchi)

How much of the total does COD represent?

"Smaller game"

ソめねこ, a TV show nmeneko-anime.jp
ちみたん本, 4-cell manga strip
おぱんちゅうさぎ

SEEING THINGS!

horror.dreamdawn.com?p=14800429

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Last one! MÆRE III
A short grainy horror game about dreams and things that go bump in the night. It's very simple but the dream sequences are great and the "don't look at bad things" mechanic builds tension with very little effort. Play it in your browser.
www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

Ghost Town
I am perhaps a bit biased when it comes to VR games, but Ghost Town is one of the best things I've ever played in VR. It's tight, beautiful, creepy, and very well written. The production quality is excellent and the puzzles are consistently fun.