I know it is short notice, but #MFGJ will run this year from November 22nd to November 29th.
The theme will be revealed on the 22nd when I wake up and get a moment, and will close for another year on the 29th.
Short notice, I know, but we are getting there.
Hurrah for micro games!
#mfgj https://git.casuallyblue.dev/yumaikas/archipelago-game/src/branch/main/browser.nv
That support file, for the curious. It -is- a bit longer, because I was leaning into the emoji-as-code thing a bit less. Turns out that neither VS Code nor neovim in kitty are amazing at working with emoji, especially if said emoji end up getting random characters copied around them.
#mfgj There -is- another file that connects that game logic to pedestrian concerns like displaying in a browser, how random numbers are generated, and asking the user for input, but the core of the game fits in a toot, (though not in a classic tweet)
The other nice thing about Nova for this is that the "my state is a bunch of stacks that I write rules over" model makes it easy to write event-based/async heavy logic, which is what a call and response game like this needs.
Behold! The game logic!
James Chip
Micro Fiction Games Jam
yumaikas/sakiamu
**~~
~map~ (
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๏ธ
๐ ๐ ๐ โ
๐ ๐
๐ ๐๏ธ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๏ธ ๐
๐ ๐๏ธ ๐๏ธ ๐ ๐ ๐
๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
)
~move to~ ๐ @ ๐ฒ x ๐ฒ y
~move to~ โต @ 0 x 5 y
~๐~ 5
~๐~1 ~๐ป~๐
~day~ 0
*~~ ๐ป๐OR๐
~~ โ๏ธORโ๏ธ
~~ โ ๐ฒ
~~ โ๐
~๐~ 0 ? * ~~ ๐
*~~ ๐ป๐OR๐ *
~~ time passes
~๐ป~๐
~~ show map
* ~~ โ๏ธORโ๏ธ *
~~ moving...
~โ~ ( W N S E )
*~~๐*
~~ ๐ป๐OR๐
~~ โ๏ธORโ๏ธ
~~ โ ๐ฒ
~~ โ๐
*~~ โ 1 * ~~ โ 2
*~~ โ 2 * ~~ โ 3
*~~ โ 3 * ~~ โ [๐ or ๐๏ธ]
*~~ โ 4 * ~~ โ [๐ , ๐ฆ or ๐ฆ]
*~~ โ 5 * ~~ โ [๐ฆ!] ~๐บ~๐ ~๐บ~๐
*~~ โ 6 * ~~ โ
*~~ โ 1 * ~~ โ 2
*~~ โ 2 * ~~ โ 3
*~~ โ 3 * ~โ~ [๐ฆ!] ~๐ป~ ๐ or ๐
*~~ โ 4 * ~~ โ 5
*~~ โ 5 * ~โ~ [๐ช๐ฆ๐
] ~๐บ~(๐ ๐ ๐)
*~~ โ 6 * ~โ~ [๐โ๏ธ] ~move to~ โต @ ๐ฒ x ๐ฒ y
*~~ โ * ~~ โ ๐ฒ
* ~~ ๐? ~~ โ ๐ฒ *
* ~~ ๐? ~~ โ๐ *
* ~~ ๐ *
~~ โ [๐]
~~ ๐ช
* ~โต loc~ $x $y ~๐ loc~ $x $y ~~ โ๐ *
~~ โ [๐๐
๐ !]
~~ ๐ช
* ~~ โ๐ *
~~ record day
~~ ๐
* ~~ ๐ช ~๐~ 0 * ~โ~ FIN
* ~~ ๐ช? ~๐~ $n? *
~~ โ [๐]
~๐ป~ ๐
#mfgj Finally, rules are tested from the top of the file to the bottom, the first one that matches is fired. After a rule matches and is fired, the process of testing rules starts over.
The nice thing about Nova for this shitpost of a game is that it doesn't have much syntax. Just enough to mark out stack and labels, and whitespace to separate symbols in a fact.
Which makes it a perfect host for an emoji-based code crime, like what follows:
#mfgj I've been working on a language project called Nova. It's based on a list of rules over a bunch of stacks, each with a name (except for the one stack that is nameless).
In a Nova file, the first non-whitespace character is the thing that toggles you between the conditions that cause a rule to fire, and the consequences of a rule:
| causes | effects
Inside the causes and effects, the -next- non-whitespace character is used for stack names
| :a stack: of causes | :a stack: of effects
#mfgj At the time, I mostly composed it using Notion (I've since left Notion as a tool for LLM reasons, though I enjoyed my time with it quite a bit, and nothing has quite landed where it was).
So, how do you take an attempt at a semantic black hole and turn it into something interactive?
How about using a programming language that has very little syntax?
Well, I meant to do this last night, but I made a new thing!
https://yumaikas.itch.io/that-dratted-archipelago-interactive-edition
So, this, in itself, isn't anything -major-. It's a shitposty expansion of a shitpost.
Back in 2021, for #mfgj, I decided to fit as -much- Solo RPG as I could into a tweet, using emoji.
Later twitter would kick the bucket, but I still have this around: https://junglecoder.com/mfgj/2021.html
Now.
Today really is the last day of the Micro Fiction Games Jam. When I get up tomorrow morning at some point I will be turning submissions off until next year, so if you wanted to get something in then this is the time to do it.
https://microfictiongames.neocities.org/submit/
It is on y'all to make sure that I have a real bumper crop of games to upload first thing in the morning.
