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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir

PreMortem.Games

The Enjenir is a physics-driven sandbox game with a clumsy medieval engineer that fumbles his way from one construction project to the next. What originally started out as a treehouse building simulator prototype, slowly evolved as the duo gradually added different mechanics. “It We judge each feature based on three criteria.

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We Dwell in Possibility as queer gardening simulation

Radiator Blog

Some of these features are common to video games, and some of them aren't.) My first prototype were sim-heavy, based on basic cellular automata , a technique popularized by Conway's Game of Life (1970) where cells (or anything, really) live or die based on crowding, However this felt too fiddly, with small shapes that changed too quickly.