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Look, lets just listen to some nice Portal music while we wait.

Haha!

Yeah, I /wish/ that game existed. Is a mock-up of a game that.... I wish... existed. I've been vaguely working on making it, got as far as this cute little demo http://www.sipan.org/~konstantin/bin.zip (Extract everything to the same folder, click index, then click the app window for to lock controls.) It's slightly more worked then it looks - the level's randomly generated and I'm just a few hundred lines of code away from having there be randomly generated weapons that like, attack with various effects and be built out of components that you could later take apart and cobble together and stuff.

You should keep working on it, I really like the look of it!  It reminds me of hacking in shadowrun. 

It's not for anybody if you ask me. My experience with galciv2 was sad to say the least. Even Stars! appealed me more than it did. I guess it's just my opinion. Stardock happens to make games which get me excited about them, then utterly bored and disappointed a couple game plays later. It's like this sexy girl who feels like a plain blowup doll when you manage to screw her. Kind of like when you manage to push a whale back to the ocean and it swims right back onto the beach.

As an unrelated post:  Stars! was awesome. 

Cause Stardock sucks.

I kind of agree to be honest.  They built up that whole "Gamers bill of Rights" as a publicity stunt and then completely ignored it when people started to ask for refunds due to the overwhelming technical issues.  I pretty much lost all respect for them.

Looking good, bros. I'll just leave this here:

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I'm more intrigued by the name than the screenshot strangely. 

So an algorithm is more of a broad function that can be easily adapted to other languages? Where do algorithms fall in something like a videogame, where there aren't really any "problems" to solve per se?

You'll always find a problem to solve.   

I wouldn't worry to much about things like this yet.  Just try to make something that works, and as you get better you'll start to understand more about algorithms. 

An example from my own projects is a map generator.  I've been playing around with different algorithms to generate 2d cave systems.  So far none of the algorithms really fit my requirements so I'll probably have to write my own algorithm rather than using one I find on the internet.

In practice, this means me mashing my head on the keyboard until I get some code that does what I want. 

If someone can refer me to a good roguelike tutorial too, I'd appreciate it.

This one worked good for me, although its python/libtcod-centric.  I'm sure the concepts all apply though.

http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=Complete_Roguelike_Tutorial,_using_python%2Blibtcod