Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by esoteric_wombat on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:55PM
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What I should have said is that Zachtronics has the market cornered on programming puzzle games for programmers. I could suggest Human Resource Machine to someone who has never programmed before, but I would never do that with TIS-100.
Making a TIS emulator in Elixir sounds like a fun and useless project.
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:17PM
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Somebody's already done one in C: https://eviltrout.com/2015/06/29/an-emulator-for-tis-100.htm...
And according to Zach, the intended market wasn't just programmers (which is why he explicitly killed bit manipulation, and the largest number a TIS-100 register can hold isn't a power of two), and I've heard tales of non-programmers enjoying it.
Then again, if you like Zachtronics games, especially TIS-100, then have I got a hobby for you...
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:55PM
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If TIS-100 is erlang, than Spacechem is C. Enjoy the fun of continually worrying that you forgot a sync/mutex.
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by empath75 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:24PM
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Not to mention the game that inspired Minecraft.
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by jbpetersen on Saturday October 08, 2016 @01:47PM
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Along with Dwarf Fortress
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by swah on Saturday October 08, 2016 @06:41PM
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Do you think those games can make you better at some kinds of programming?
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @07:18PM
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Of course. They're effectively excercises for the parts of your brain that you use most while programming.
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by Kabie on Saturday October 08, 2016 @10:45PM
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The model of TIS-100 is more like the blocking channels in Go.
Re:TIS-100 – Tessellated Intelligence System
by KirinDave on Sunday October 09, 2016 @01:50PM
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Nah, it's really not! I think the author even mentioned the actor model in an interview about it. And Go certainly has never desired to be associated as "the actor model." It lacks many of the tools required.
Zachtronics doesn't pull any punches. Their games are amazing. Even the deceptively simple Infinifactory is actually full of amazing and beautiful opportunities for elegant programming concepts (the first time you realize, "I can... I can make a clock with controllably variable periodicity!? What?" And TIS-100 resembles programming in a stripped down Erlang-like mode.
HRM is a great starter into the Genre, it's sure. But Spacechem is on a totally different level of complexity and beauty and depth.