Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

it's originally an entomology term about beetle wings.

From a linguistic perspective of course, the Correct™ pronunciation of a word is the way the majority of speakers pronounce it - and I think there are far more minecraft players saying /e.lai.trə/ or /e-lɪ-trə/ than there are entomologists saying /e-lə-trə/

...I just found out that "elytra" is pronounced e-lə-trə ("ele" as in "electric"), rather than e-lai-trə

😱

meow!

the problem with this idea, I think, is that it is very vague. This isn't enough of an idea to base a game off, and some parts of it are too simple to really mean anything and other parts are too ambitious and unbounded in scope.

so I'm probably going to obsessively think about this for 3 weeks and then forget about it XD

if I do actually make this, I have some things I want to do really differently to 256:
- firstly, it's going to be way faster - like pacman CE 2.
- instead of being infinitely vertical, it will be infinite in every direction. BUT the space is divided into sections that are blocked off by locked doors - so you have to find keys to get to other sections.
- Different sections will be different "biomes", and have different hazards and enemies.
- Thematically less abstract

Ever since I played Pac-man 256 (an infinite pac-man game), I've wanted to make a clone of it and fix all its problems (like how many of the powerups you unlock are just strictly better versions of earlier powerups, thus making the old ones useless)
But I've never wanted to JUST make a clone.

Until I had the "brilliant" and "extremely creative" idea of making it a roguelike.
Instead of unlocking powerups between runs, you unlock them DURING runs.

I've had an idea for a video game again.... oh no

meow??????

I've been wracking my brain for ideas, but I keep just either coming up with stuff that isn't suitable for idris, or would take so long that I wouldn't enjoy them.

I'm feeling the allure of type systems, like an anglerfish in the depths, but I think I am wise enough to know to keep away...

I'm not even a programmer anymore, I've got no excuses I can make to spend time with it 😭

Thinking about how great the Idris programming language is.... I wish I had a project to work on with it!!

oh!!! dread delusion!!! I should play that...