KelsonV@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoIf Programming Languages Were Games (Comic)toggl.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1228arrow-down142file-text
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minus-squareLmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThere’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.
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.