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@grumpygamer you roll a die, and whatever number the die turns up with is the number of dies the die splits into. 1 = no splitting it just stays. 6 = die forks into 6 dies, in random directions. then when each of those dies come to a stop each of them fork. the "game" is how long the game can run on your computer before the process crashes (with the special super lose condition: you roll a die on pass 1)
@mcc @grumpygamer damn this is an extremely interesting mathematical question. What is the expected mean number of dies when the process stops?
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@grumpygamer you roll a die, and whatever number the die turns up with is the number of dies the die splits into. 1 = no splitting it just stays. 6 = die forks into 6 dies, in random directions. then when each of those dies come to a stop each of them fork. the "game" is how long the game can run on your computer before the process crashes (with the special super lose condition: you roll a die on pass 1)
@mcc @grumpygamer it feels like it has a lot in common with games about piles of sticks (building them, disassembling them, etc)
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@grumpygamer Tetris-like game with 3d shapes made of cubes!
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@mcc @grumpygamer damn this is an extremely interesting mathematical question. What is the expected mean number of dies when the process stops?
@oblomov @grumpygamer it seems to me the chances of the process stopping must be low and must exponentially decrease the longer the process runs
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@oblomov @grumpygamer it seems to me the chances of the process stopping must be low and must exponentially decrease the longer the process runs
@mcc @grumpygamer that would be my intuition as well but I'm sure there's a mathematical way to prove it
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@mcc @grumpygamer that would be my intuition as well but I'm sure there's a mathematical way to prove it
@oblomov @mcc @grumpygamer hi! It seems like you've stumbled upon the lovely mathematical genre of problem called 'branching processes' and 'extinction probabilities'. I don't know how to calculate this, but I can show you where to look.
Tbis Reddit post had a similar idea to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/jH1LzTXROe
This is the wiki page on branching processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching_process?wprov=sfla1
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@oblomov @mcc @grumpygamer hi! It seems like you've stumbled upon the lovely mathematical genre of problem called 'branching processes' and 'extinction probabilities'. I don't know how to calculate this, but I can show you where to look.
Tbis Reddit post had a similar idea to you: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/s/jH1LzTXROe
This is the wiki page on branching processes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branching_process?wprov=sfla1
@oblomov @mcc @grumpygamer
After reading up on this a bit I can semi-confidently say that this branching process with d6s will continue infinitely. The highest chance of it terminating is of course in the first or second roll, but after that chances of terminating become infinitesimally small. -
Quick! I need a game design idea for a 3D game that only uses a cube. Cube can be different colors. I need something to match Blender skillz.
@grumpygamer Just as exercise, or to fully develop in a product?
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@mcc @grumpygamer it feels like it has a lot in common with games about piles of sticks (building them, disassembling them, etc)
@ireneista @mcc @grumpygamer there was a pickup sticks game in Windows 3.1
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@ireneista @mcc @grumpygamer there was a pickup sticks game in Windows 3.1
@grumpasaurus @mcc @grumpygamer was there? we never saw that one
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@grumpasaurus @mcc @grumpygamer was there? we never saw that one
@ireneista @mcc @grumpygamer https://www.myabandonware.com/game/symantec-game-pack-1a1
I was pretty good at it ngl
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Quick! I need a game design idea for a 3D game that only uses a cube. Cube can be different colors. I need something to match Blender skillz.
@grumpygamer you can do a 2d esque game where you slide the cubes to form a picture
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