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[SquidDev]

I also count 17 pixels high, whereas a normal computer has 19. Maybe something to do with this 'brand new secret project', though it definitely looks Minecraft related.

Edited by SquidDev, 18 April 2015 - 04:22 PM.

[TheOddByte]

I didn't think this would be added, but now that I've seen that tweet I'm extremely excited!
I have to check out twitter more often! xP

[Agent Silence]

Square Pixels
Besides that, the characters could work like stencils in OpenBlocks.
If they did, it would be amazing.

Edited by Requiem of Silence, 18 April 2015 - 05:24 PM.

[CrazedProgrammer]

Aww yiss can't wait to make some ASCII art

[Dav999_NL]

This looks surprisingly similar to something I've seen before:


(imagine characters changing here as well)

[Creator]

Is there any doubt if it in CC, or it just something to give us false hopes? If yes, imagine the possibilities:
1) square pixels (luckily all my programs,at least fileX, use term.getSize() and not hardcoded values)
2) Acsii graphics insert cool meme that guy who is running with his hands over his head/ behind him

[Bomb Bloke]

Dav999_NL, on 18 April 2015 - 11:18 PM, said:

This looks surprisingly similar to something I've seen before:

Now that's Unicode. Still, the resemblance is uncanny.

Creator, on 18 April 2015 - 11:36 PM, said:

Is there any doubt if it in CC, or it just something to give us false hopes? If yes, imagine the possibilities:

It may be that it's unrelated to ComputerCraft. Certainly I hadn't noticed that the aspect ratio was off.

Maybe it's a new kinda of "monitor" or something? I really dunno.

[nitrogenfingers]

Two things I noticed in that video:
- The colour palette is about the same as CC's
- There's a CC turtle character, a rectangle with a slit near the top



But that's just speculation...

Edited by nitrogenfingers, 22 April 2015 - 05:02 AM.

[Lupus590]

floppy disk icon at the top left too (see nirtogenfingers screenshot above)

[wieselkatze]

Also there is a sword char:


And much more obvious a creeper character:

[Cranium]

this would be VERY nice to see in CC. To me, it looks like a modified version of some character set that is games-specific. I see things like humans, pac-man(and ghosts), bombs, a dog, what looks like a gravestone, something like a goomba, half of a Space Invader, skulls, and of course, what you guys have noticed.

I'd love to see even a small portion of this in ComputerCraft.

EDIT: Oh, and what looks like a "slime" enemy

Edited by Cranium, 22 April 2015 - 07:29 PM.

[Wojbie]

Text based old-school (text-based old) standalone console adventure game?

[MKlegoman357]

wojbie, on 22 April 2015 - 08:27 PM, said:

Text based old-school (text-based old) standalone console adventure game?

Looks like you might be right.

For those who don't read Dan's twitter, he's making a secret project, his next game. So it seems that it's not a CC font extension after all.

Edited by MKlegoman357, 03 May 2015 - 07:52 PM.

[Bomb Bloke]

The partial implementation of Lua 5.2 into the CC beta + the MineCraft-based glyphs have had me thinking "ComputerCraft 2" is in the works.

Whatever it is, he appears to be running a lightly modified version of ComputerCraft's worm script on it.

[MKlegoman357]

Maybe Dan is creating a standalone CC-based game?

[Bomb Bloke]

The MineCraft-themed symbols make me think otherwise, but... it's perfectly possible!

Adding in eg something like the interface from CCEdu would differentiate it from every other CC "emulator" out there.

[Slackratchet]

Now I want Dwarf Fortress running on a monitor in my base.

[SquidDev]

I'm thinking this is a Computer Craft related thing again. Maybe another spoiler?

[Bomb Bloke]

Really that sequence of tweets makes me lean further towards "not ComputerCraft".

"Hey, why's ComputerCraft popular?"

"What if I took out the turtles?"

"Um, rather, what if I took out everything that lets you interact with your MineCraft world?" (In response to people reminding him that ComputerCraft can automate via eg redstone and peripherals as well)

So number four, "What could I add to ComputerCraft to make it fun to use?", comes off as having the unspoken implication "... when you're using it outside of MineCraft?".

Dan probably won't read this here, but what the heck, I'm not making a twitter account just to say it (someone can link this post from there if they're feeling generous) - one thing I'd really like to play with again is VDU 23, for defining your own characters. Had all sorts of fun with that as a kid.

Whatever's planned seems to be built with the idea that you can easily use most existing ComputerCraft code with it (so long as that code doesn't rely on a MineCraft world, anyway - but let's assume stuff that Lua doesn't usually have, like the paintutils API, is still available). Dynamic character definitions would mean that if I wanted to, for eg, port across my tetris game, I could use the same "graphics built out of text characters" system I'm using now, and if the character set on offer happens to be missing a suitable block-symbol, I can add one in myself.

Likewise, something like eg Gold Runner could be much more readily customised to use "proper graphics" if the character set were malleable. Furthermore, if scripts don't need to be re-written to use "regular" drawing functions in order to "draw new stuff", it'd be relatively easy to write a single copy of a script that runs in what I'm assuming will be a new environment, as well as in ComputerCraft - backwards compatibility!

[dan200]

I'm really enjoying the speculation in this thread