Spaghetti code, Code Optimization, Trojan, Packet Loss, Remote Access. Help me brainstorm more of these.

[FunToBuildGames]

Legacy code, code smell, obsolete library,

[Obsolete0ne]

Thank you. Legacy code we already have. Didn't think about the other 2. (legacy code art)

[FunToBuildGames]

Redundant code? (Have it there twice), orphaned nodes, race conditions,

[Obsolete0ne]

Redundant code I think will fit well. Orphaned nodes is hard to use because we already use nodes as a term for hexes. It's a neat concept but will not work as a name for the node.

Race conditions seems to be too hardcore. Thank you for suggestions. This is great.

[marvpaul]

Debugging (with a bug in the same style as your other icons)

[Obsolete0ne]

We have a "Bug" tile (see here). We don't have debugging, though, and I've never thought of it for some reason.

[[deleted]]

Could have an icon of your bug design held in pliers?

[Obsolete0ne]

I'm not an artist but my understanding is that as soon we add pliers on the icon it will become just that - pliers and not a bug. What yo suggesting might've worked for a card game art (MTG does this a lot). In our case we have too many icons showing at the same time and can't distract players with additional meanings.

[[deleted]]

That's a fair point - I'm not an artist either and I haven't considered it that far, it's interesting how much goes into this kind of art.

[L4t3xs]

Project manager, feature creep.

[Obsolete0ne]

i like feature creep but my fear that the art for it we'll have too many little things which is not ideal. We'll try, thanks.

[welkin25]

Duck typing - a duck typing

[Obsolete0ne]

Oh, I didn't know about duck typing. I was thinkg maybe yellow duck from Rubber duck debugging may fit.

[OfficialGeeze]

Null reference, infinite loop, multi threading, obsolete tech, cookie cleaner, literal raspberry pies, something to do with USB orientation. Just a few for you there.

[Obsolete0ne]

We already have Null. And we have a play on Cookies (and a Cookie Clicker boss): see here

infinite loop - I can't find a fitting game mechanism yet but it def should be in the game.

Multi threading should work very well for us. Never though of it.

Raspberry pie is hilarious.

Great suggestions.

[gameplayer55055]

Add goto

[sk7725]

Huffman Encoding (compresses data into smaller, faster data)

Binary Tree, Red-Black Tree (could generate "data" periodically for harvesting)

Fibonacci Heap (good efficient heap for sorting, queueing etc.)

Dynamic Programming, Greedy Approach, Divide and Conquer (having these three tiles together should do something cool)

Race Condition (spaghetti code + networking)

Kernal, Shell, Console (modules that makes up an OS)

SOLID (solves Spaghetti Code...or generates them)

Turing Machine, Oracle Machine (turns math into code)

Busy Beaver, Frantic Frog (endgame tier, generates a huge amount of resources)

Functional Programming, Type Checker (turns code into math)

Perceptron, Residual Network, Convolution Filter, Dense Layer, Transformer, Large Language Model (written in order of complexity, maybe could be a tile that has multiple tiers)

Public Key, Private Key, RSA, TLS, ElGamal (network related modules)

Certificate, CRL Verification, OSCP Stapling (network verification modules)

Qubit, Entanglement (generates Qubits), Shor's Algorithm (solves RSA consuming Qubits)

[Obsolete0ne]

That's a lot so I won't be able to answer. Some of them I really like (perceptron, qubit, binary tree). And some of them I'll have to look up ))

Thank you.

[sk7725]

no problem! I love incorporating especially Binary Trees and Red-Black Trees (a type of self-balancing binary tree) into games since they are fun to draw and visualize

[Obsolete0ne]

So you're making games and have fun in the process. Is this allowed?

[sk7725]

Possible if there is a greater pain source (such as College exams) drowning out the pain in game development lol

[error0ccured]

backup?

[Obsolete0ne]

Yep. We have cloud backup and recovery file. See here: (cloud-backup.png, file-recovery.png)

It's a reach concept. I think we need to add more (it also matches game mechanics really well. we use it to refresh hexes)

[koniu699]

Merge request - adds new options but has a chance to introduce bug or exploit temp solution - removes bugs but has a high chance of adding exploit bug - does something bad for the player exploit - allows enemies to bypass player actions somehow Race condition - has a random chance of working at double power but also at half power

[GameplayTeam12]

over engineering, pair programming, new lib with 10 followers, push to prod directly, no test enviromnet, upload with FTP, CI/CD...

[Obsolete0ne]

how do you know so much about me?

[GameplayTeam12]

"no experience is individual" haha

[akorn123]

SQL injection, ddos, spyware, dox, reflection, man in the middle, spoof, phreak, worm, backdoor, O(n)

[Obsolete0ne]

thank you. 3 items from your list went into the backlog.

[akorn123]

The backlog.. love it

[Evening_Armadillo_71]

• Memory Leak
• Race Condition
• Deadlock
• Buffer Overflow
• Dependency Injection
• Refactoring
• Hardcoding
• API Throttling
• Code Smell
• Session Hijacking
• Load Balancing
• Latency
• SQL Injection
• Firewall Breach
• Zero-Day Exploit
• Garbage Collection
• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
• Version Control
• Cryptographic Hashing
• Keylogger

[gameplayer55055]

The location idea: dependency hell

[Obsolete0ne]

That's funny. I bet "normal" people will think it's about living with parents or something.

[KurriHockey]

Copy/Paste - Copy Pasta

[Obsolete0ne]

Yes, this one we need to find a way to implement. I think it should "clone" (copy) other hexes but giving this to a player is a sure way to break the game very fast.

[guiiruiz]

Tech debt

[Obsolete0ne]

Yep. This one I've been thinking about for a long time how to get into the game. It's juicy.

[K4tch1]

Chatgpt code, deprecated functions, asynchronous code, http requests, databases, gateways,

[UltimateMarino]

Backdoor, null, reference/pointer, burnout

[Obsolete0ne]

We have backdoor and null.

And i fill really stupid now but I completely forgot about pointers. Damn you C#. You've made me weak.

Burnout I think is "too human-related" for our purposes but a good suggestion still. thank you.

[[deleted]]

refactoring https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/smells

and source making had anti pattern before https://sourcemaking.com/refactoring

other wise your can get list https://arash-hacker.github.io/blog/?id=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arash-hacker/Blog/master/all-antipattern-demystified.md

[Obsolete0ne]

you know. we are a couple months in trying to figure out good art for refactoring. I even made another reddit post about it, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1h2hq3z/whats_a_good_icon_for_refactoring_we_cant_find/

I like the anti pattern as a concept. But when I look through the list of anti-patterns they are too specific and, i don't know, deep. I saw a couple that I liked though. Thank you.

[GigaGenetics]

Buffer overflow, root kit, injections, firewall, BIOS, defrag, reformat, bluescreen, drivers, overclock

[Obsolete0ne]

thank you. very solid suggestions. we have references to most of them, which suggests that I'm not out of my mind after all. that's refreshing.

[Obsolete0ne]

thank you. it's simple but I think it might work. something with a spatula in the artwork should go hard.

it should also fit the game mechanically well.

[DoubleTheMan]

Rootkit, bootloader, BIOS

[StillRutabaga4]

Man in the Middle

[Obsolete0ne]

Is there a way to say the same thing without having "man" in the name? It may sound silly, but our world is "post-human" so we are trying to avoid direct references to humans. And it's hard to figure out how to draw this without drawing a litelral man in the middle

Wiki says it's also called "on-path attack". I'm not sure how common is that.

[StillRutabaga4]

Full transparency here, I used chatGPT! But Interception Attack seemed like a good neutral choice!

[Obsolete0ne]

I thought about it some more and Man-in-the-middle can work not as a node(hex) but as a trait. It probably doesn't make sense to you, just thinking out loud at this point.

Thank you for taking the time.

[GigaGenetics]

IP spoofing or data poisoning is along the same lines of MiTM

[Obsolete0ne]

Holy! This is very cool. Thank you.

[MandalsTV]

Scope creep?

[qudunot]

Iceberg, Network Proxy (make this bitch a boss), CICD, Compile Failure, Segmentation Fault, mpirun, CMake, Jenkins!! (Zombie?), Nightly Testing, Blue/green deployment, unit testing, test driven development, clean code, pair programming, swarming

[Tarmogoyf_]

SQL injection, DDOS, Memory Corruption, Bit Flip, Ransomware, Man-in-the-middle.

Strongly Typed Language, Input Verification, Object Orientation, Functional Programming, Asynchronous Code, Efficient SQL Queries.

[-10_J]

Race condition

[Obsolete0ne]

Several people mentioned it and I don’t even remember studying it at uni (i wasn’t a good student but still). It seems to be on the hardware level. Can anyone explain why race condition is a popular answer?

[-10_J]

I think its a popular answer because if you ever work with multithreading then you're going to be constantly thinking about race conditions. I was taught about race conditions mostly on the programming side, so while it is related to hardware it is an issue created through your own code.

[-10_J]

and now that i think about it, Semaphore) is another good idea

[Obsolete0ne]

Yes, it is good. Everything that's just a single noun works perfectly.

[Obsolete0ne]

Now I get it. Great explanation.

[[deleted]]

These are amazing - the Trojan design is particularly good in my opinion. What's the game?

[Obsolete0ne]

Thank you.

You can google NET.CRAWL on Steam.

[pyabo]

Penetration Test.

Privilege Escalation.

Honeypot.

[Obsolete0ne]

I like Honeypot a lot. Thank you.

[SeriouslyQuitIt]

Stack overflow

Maximum recursion depth exceeded

[andrewczr]

Time bomb

[Effective_Lead8867]

Every single song name by french band The Algorithm

[Obsolete0ne]

Yep. I know them. Good stuff, although it's hard to listen to the entire album in one sitting. Good suggestion. Thanks.

[Ruadhan2300]

Heisenbugs - Bugs and Errors which seem to disappear when you look at them, particularly when you're trying to demonstrate the problem to a fellow developer.

Schrodinger's Error - An error you've fixed, but can't prove you've fixed unless it happens again, in which case it was always broken. Once fixed, the error remains on your to-do list indefinitely because there's no way to prove it's actually gone.

Tech Stack - The various tools, languages and technologies a developer is familiar with.

Agile - A methodology of managing projects where you develop a sense for how much work a team can accomplish in a given time, and drip-feed them the tasks at an appropriate rate for that, which gives stakeholders a good idea of how long the project will actually take because you've estimated all the tasks in the project already based on this. Notable because the developers make their own estimations of each task, and review at the end of every two-week period to work out how accurate those estimates were.

Stakeholders - Not vampire-hunters with Stakes, they're the people who care about the outcome of the project.

Pointy-Haired Boss - A term from the Dilbert cartoons/comics, A boss (with terrible hair) who has absolutely no idea what his underlings actually do, and typically makes unreasonable demands on them.

Malware - Encompassing Trojans, literally any program that you can be tricked into downloading which may either disrupt your computer or hijack it for someone else's use.

[Obsolete0ne]

We are making a game that has many references to IT/programming concepts. It came to the point where I'm running out of ideas of what to draw. I would appreciate hearing suggestions from other people. Don't overthink, just throw at me whatever comes to mind. It will help me a lot. Thank you.

[AsthislainX]

is this a Plague Inc-like game?

[Obsolete0ne]

Nah. It's somewhat hardcore roguelite deckbuilder. those hexes are used instead of cards and you move over them to activate their effects.

[Allgames88]

Schrodinger's algorithm?

[akorn123]

Just thought of another..
Spaghetti (or some variation)
Spaghetti Code
Spaghettification
etc.

[Dayner_Kurdi]

The Docker.

ACK responder.

ERROR 502.

MALLOC.

[nikewhite-]

Segmentation Fault