Posted on Sat 31 August 2024 in games
Shapez.io is a factory simulation game where you need to design a factory to produce a given shape. The needed shapes increase in difficulty in the first 25 levels, but stay constant after that. Obviously, some factory designs are reusable, so I documented my factory-parts here.
IF you want …
Posted on Wed 05 July 2023 in games
I wanted a challenge, so I decided to try a "Grand Tour" of the Kerbolar system in Kerbal Space Program. A "Grand Tour" is a single mission where you visit all bodies in the Kerbolar system. The definition of "visit" varies from fly-by to manned landing, depending on how challenging …
Posted on Mon 12 June 2023 in games
Microsoft Flight Simulator provides "bush trips": a set of VFR flights across an area with nice scenery. When flying these bush trips, you have to rely on the description only, as no navigation aids are available. To me, as a non-native speaker, the descriptions aren't always very clear.
So I …
Posted on Mon 11 April 2022 in games
I discovered another game that gives me an excuse to write silly calculator modules: Surviving Mars. Some random notes and a few tools I wrote, or interesting tools I found online:
Posted on Wed 25 August 2021 in games
I am usually late to proverbial parties, but I think I’ve outdone myself by discovering the computer game Kerbal Space Program roughly 10 years after it first became playable. It’s the kind of game that triggers my “I’ll optimize this by writing a script”, so here are …