and i didnt even realize the colors corresponded to things until now…

forgot to reply, but i don’t think i realized it was tracking xp until you mentioned it here

dont forget ivysly.itch.io/evil-egg

the stuff i try to keep in mind

- kill vampires asap
- the dog is evil
- you can protect noids from bullets without collecting them
- live and die for your noids but know when to let them go (for me im still getting used to deeper runs vs. purely score optimizing, so its worth living longer)

that is, rejection of the frame of Licensing, which both copyleft style things and these sort of alternative licenses still do implicitly

ive seen interesting approaches to this like the Opinionated Queer License which also links out to www.boringcactus.com/2021/09/29/a... though I do like the rejection that No License engages in

this is a fair point. somehow i didn't know about the baggage of the terminology here, or passed over it when watching it, so didn't intend to make that comparison

python does have special syntax for this eg.
x = Value1 if Condition else Value2

but i do like when languages flatten things out and have if expressions, so any if block can just evaluate to a value you're assigning. also nicer for longer chunks of code..

this and some of the ensuing discussion reminded me of scene(s) from Empty Metal

a bit late but ive got linux machines if you still need someone

that is - i've been grappling with the concept with some time unsure exactly if it clicks, but it feels like it relates to games in an interesting way, and frictionless movement between states is probably close to that way

this reminds me a bit of the concept of the rhizome, which i've been thinking about a bunch in relation to games (though, the reading on it is a bit dense - but especially how it's initially established in relation to books, and how the book discussing rhizomes was structured anti-linearly)

I think some of the nice things from dynamic langs can be achieved in static/gradual ones but it's rarer in certain subsets of statically typed langs. macros and reflection are the two big things here

i do enjoy working w static type systems but i probably make less use of them in games than for other software i make