Checkpoint Alternatives: Difference between revisions
From Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects
Jump to navigationJump to search
(Created page with " In videogame worlds, checkpoints are a welcome way to avoid hours of button-mashing. But the usual convention in a game is that time simply rewinds to the checkpoint, like the eternal repeats in the movie Groundhog Day. What if a checkpoint worked like a functional programming continuation, where state could be directly manipulated before continuing? With the Verse functional programming language integrated into Epic Games infrastructure, this project will be an opportu...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
Proposed to Epic Games, introduction from SPJ | |||
In videogame worlds, checkpoints are a welcome way to avoid hours of button-mashing. But the usual convention in a game is that time simply rewinds to the checkpoint, like the eternal repeats in the movie Groundhog Day. What if a checkpoint worked like a functional programming continuation, where state could be directly manipulated before continuing? With the Verse functional programming language integrated into Epic Games infrastructure, this project will be an opportunity to invent new kinds of gameplay. You'll need to think about what parts of the state can be rendered in the game, and how the player can make the game modify itself at this meta-level. | In videogame worlds, checkpoints are a welcome way to avoid hours of button-mashing. But the usual convention in a game is that time simply rewinds to the checkpoint, like the eternal repeats in the movie Groundhog Day. What if a checkpoint worked like a functional programming continuation, where state could be directly manipulated before continuing? With the Verse functional programming language integrated into Epic Games infrastructure, this project will be an opportunity to invent new kinds of gameplay. You'll need to think about what parts of the state can be rendered in the game, and how the player can make the game modify itself at this meta-level. | ||
(original suggestion from Michael Lee) | (original suggestion from Michael Lee) | ||
Latest revision as of 13:53, 17 October 2024
Proposed to Epic Games, introduction from SPJ
In videogame worlds, checkpoints are a welcome way to avoid hours of button-mashing. But the usual convention in a game is that time simply rewinds to the checkpoint, like the eternal repeats in the movie Groundhog Day. What if a checkpoint worked like a functional programming continuation, where state could be directly manipulated before continuing? With the Verse functional programming language integrated into Epic Games infrastructure, this project will be an opportunity to invent new kinds of gameplay. You'll need to think about what parts of the state can be rendered in the game, and how the player can make the game modify itself at this meta-level.
(original suggestion from Michael Lee)
