SRP all the way

I do indeed. But at least my one is vb6 haha

But C# is the one SO seems gives bad results for.

I literally skip SO results now. Most of them are so out of date it’s often better to find an article or ask chatgpt

I think the term “virtual toy” applies really well for Minecraft.

Like Lego you can set goals for yourself but there aren’t strict win or lose conditions.

But the diversity of what’s possible with video games certainly muddies the waters compared to classic games.

There’s predefined goals and rules.

It has win and lose conditions, for example failing a raid.

It can technically be completed even if that takes an insane amount of time and effort. You can therefore fail to complete it.

So you could argue it is a game quite easily. You could also argue it’s a set of distinct games within a framework.

But things get a lot more messy with digital games compared to classic games.

Technically the goal is for your DNA to spread itself. Everything else is just made up by humans.

Imo definitions are important even if people aren’t aware of them.

I did say it’s an interesting area of study. So I was referring to the academic side and specific definitions.

The other definitions are way too wide imo and easily include many things that clearly aren’t games.

Win free games are basically just constrained play I feel.

Again Minecraft isn’t a game technically. Beating the ender dragon doesn’t end the game. If it did then it would better fit the definition of a game imo. It’s a sandbox or digital Lego.

Games by their literal definition have win conditions.

One without win conditions is just a virtual toy. Like sim city.

I wrote a paper on this when studying games technology at university. It’s actually a really interesting area of study.

It’s because it isn’t fed facts really. Words are converted into numbers and it understands the relationship between them.

It has absolutely no understanding of facts, just how words are used with other words.

It’s not like it’s looking up things in a database. It’s taking the provided words and applying a mathematical formula to create new words.

I did games technology at university. We had a module that was just playing board games and eventually making one. Also did an unreal engine module that ended with making a game and a cinematic.

It was awesome.