MDmdtrooper·Nov 26, 2024Submission
New release of Cataclysm-DDA, 0.H-RELEASE
8 points · Open discussionCleverRaven
Cataclysm-DDA
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Cataclysm-DDA
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world.
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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14 sourcesFantastic game and very actively developed. If you play the latest experimental version it can get a bit chaotic with the rate of change in the game. It’s quite different than what I played six months ago. Being able to play a cave man who works his way through the Iron Age or a modern mad max customizing his death mobile to a lab grown mutant busting out of a science lab adds a ton of variety. I’m not a fan of every change, but it trends towards realism and simulation and overall keeps getting better.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
In Ask HN: Favourite open source game?Cataclysm-Dark Days Ahead-A turn-based survival game in a post-apocalyptic world
2 points · Open discussionA turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
1 points · Open discussionCataclysm DDA – turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world
1 points · Open discussionThere is also Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead[1] which is open source
[1] https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
In Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins [video]I'd also recommend Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead for a good post-apocalyptic/zombie themed rougelike.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/
In NetHack 3.6.6Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is probably the best example of a "community driven" open-source game.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
In Rocket League left behind on macOS and Linux due to DirectX 11 shiftInteresting. Chromium seems to be huge indeed. I googled statistics: 3+ million lines of code? Is that about right? (Not that LOC is a great universal metric of everything, but it's something.)
For comparison: I work on something a magnitude smaller: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/ ... about ~360,000 LOC. CLion is pretty great for that.
I'm curious, have the VM garbage collection and allocation settings been adjusted? In other words, not just the memory limits but also switching to a different garbage collector and the GC control mechanisms adjusted? I've been reading up on the collectors. As far as I can tell the G1 collector is strongly indicated when you go above a 4 or 8GB heap. It then has a number of settings to adjust. I got really good and smooth performance out of it - few and short enough pauses that I was at peac
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e with CLion - but seemingly I set the garbage collection to be "too continuous" which caused constant CPU usage when I used that profile in Pycharm on a Python project. Had to switch Pycharm back to a more, uh, classical GC setup. (I didn't reconfigure to rein it back in as it was unnecessary in that context. I'm sure it's possible.) The JVM and the GC are a rather interesting beast.
Just curious :)
Cataclysm – Dark Days Ahead. A massive post-apocalyptic roguelike
2 points · Open discussionTo save people some googling:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysm:_Dark_Days_Ahead
Home page: https://cataclysmdda.org/
Github: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
Stable releases: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/releases
Daily builds: https://cataclysmdda.org/#downloads
In The Brief, Incredibly Poetic Life of Bañec Hazyblockades: A Dwarf Fortress DiaryThis looks as if this was a compile target, not the source code.
HitEffect is a quite the function.
This reminds me of working on CDDA[1] before many of the refactors hit.
CDDA is an interesting case, it stemmed from a situation similar to the original post (one person project, embarked upon it before knowing how to do so). It was a complete mess of macros, spaghetti code and data and code living happily side by side.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA
In TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code