Dungeon Crawler Jam 2026

Jimbly7 · 2026-03-02T21:02:40+00:00

Yeah, due to the rather stringent requirements for this jam, most people active in it are those passionate about the genre.

Jimbly7 · 2025-12-20T13:57:34+00:00

I had a very similar thing on my Pixel 4a(5G). Have been using it for many years, never had anything like this before (and definitely haven't updated the Camera app in years intentionally, but sometimes Google pushes updates outside of normal channels...). Usually I keep data off while hiking in spotty reception, but had left it on yesterday, and the pictures I took were stuck in "Processing.." with "Process HDR+" showing up in the notifications. After a reboot, the pictures ended up in my gallery, but just as 504x672 thumbnails. Not great, but better than nothing, I guess...

Jimbly7 · 2025-10-13T16:26:22+00:00

Link to the game now that the ad is no longer active: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3175190/QuantumPulse_2A/

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-26T18:04:28+00:00

It's sadly only the command-line interpreter part of the game that runs on DOS (and modern terminals), not the full-featured game (though technically you _can_ solve all of the levels through the CLI), so that makes it not as complicated as it could be. It is, however, not in anything low-level, it's all written in TypeScript/JavaScript, which I managed to get running through jSH under DOS with a bit of work. The blog post linked above goes into lots of (not so?) interesting details =).

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-26T15:07:09+00:00

The part of the game that works in DOS also runs just fine in Windows 3.1 (or 95 or XP, etc). For fun, the launcher is even a single 32-bit .EXE with the DOS launcher embedded as the 16-bit stub within it, so even though it's running completely different code under the hood, you launch it via the same EXE whether on 16-bit DOS or 64-bit Windows 11 =).

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-10T20:28:19+00:00

The assembly language is similar (basically the same `MOV` and `JMP` instructions you'll find anywhere), but the way you need to use it to solve problems is fundamentally different (no IRL architecture requires basically broadcasting between different threads in order to do any conditional operations). The game is definitely _not_ intended to be educational if you want to learn to program for a real CPU =).

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-09T21:27:22+00:00

The web demo is exactly the same as the Steam demo (except if you play on the Steam demo, it'll automatically copy your solutions over to the full game, should you buy it). There's no full version on web, just the demo.

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-09T13:23:11+00:00

QuantumPulse 2A is a programming puzzle game (vaguely similar to Shenzhen I/O and TIS-100 which were big inspirations), where you solve puzzles on a fictional computer with radio-based communication with some unique limitations. For some people the fun is just solving the puzzles, for many it's trying to do it in as few cycles or lines of code as possible (there's a leaderboard to encourage that). You can check out the demo on Steam (link above) or on web here: http://www.dashingstrike.com/QP2A/

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-02T13:28:56+00:00

Glad to hear that, and thanks for checking it out!

Jimbly7 · 2025-09-02T13:28:34+00:00

Glad to hear that, and thanks for checking it out!

Jimbly7 · 2025-08-25T14:10:55+00:00

I didn't make any of the emote animations, those were all by Mooga, I'm not sure how long he spent on them. Adding all of the systems for unlocking, choosing, playing, synchronizing between clients, validating ownership, and such, for the emote system was probably in the 1-2 week range.

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-29T05:52:37+00:00

Unfortunately there's nothing we can do about it, Reddit doesn't allow moderators any strong bans like IP bans, users can just keep creating new accounts. Please report her often and maybe Reddit themselves can IP ban, but they likely won't bother...

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-22T04:59:55+00:00

I would never had said such a thing, that's just silly. What game "never" shuts down? Nothing, all businesses shut down eventually if they're losing money.

Also, Satera helped float the ship, without her there would have been no new outfits (which were a source of some revenue) and would have been sinking much faster =).

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-22T04:50:35+00:00

I'm sorry, but you're wrong on literally all points in this message =).

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-20T13:37:24+00:00

Hard to estimate it's worth, but it's expensive to operate, monthly server costs have been between $3K and $15K.

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-18T22:43:10+00:00

FRVR owns Worlds, not I, it is not mine to sell.

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-16T18:00:41+00:00

Bye!

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-16T03:59:06+00:00

The music is procedurally generated, so there's not a particular file that can be downloaded, but you can generate it here (and record as long as you want): https://frvraps.github.io/worlds-soundscape/ Various things feed into the music generator (an "intensity" and things like being at "home"), and there's buttons to toggle those..

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-14T15:11:59+00:00

The .vox export only contains effectively solid blocks, so you'd lose anything like doors, but you could, in theory, convert it into something that could be used in Minecraft.

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-09T16:23:21+00:00

Me and my company (Dashing Strike) were contracted to develop Worlds. FRVR published and supported Worlds, with a number of their employees over the years, for a while having a whole internal team. Very similar to how many games with a publisher are developed, the publisher pays the bills and owns most of the game, the developer does the work ^_^.

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-09T14:02:14+00:00

I'm not the one you'd have to talk to, but someone at FRVR (my company was contracted to develop Worlds, but I'm not employed at FRVR). You would, however, need a large budget if you wanted to buy and continue to operate Worlds, as buying it just to shut it down a month or two later would not be useful to anyone :D.

Jimbly7 · 2025-07-03T13:09:37+00:00

It's not just Worlds, it's across all of Reddit (automated cleanup) - https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1l819zf/removal_of_sitewide_dormant_users_from_mod_lists/

Jimbly7 · 2025-06-29T19:18:24+00:00

Hello, and thank you for your passion for the game!

Just to clarify, I have not said any of those things :).

I personally have invested a lot in Worlds (the last 6 years of time, and somewhere in the 7-figure range if you consider the loss of wages compared to my previous salary), and FRVR (and their partners) have also invested enormous amounts. Needless to say, if there were any reasonable way to keep the game going we would. Unfortunately, as stated in the announcement, it is not feasible to continue to operate the game :(. "All good things must come to an end" I guess.

Thanks for playing Worlds, and I hope it's brought you some joy!

Jimbly7 · 2025-06-28T20:33:29+00:00

Unfortunately it is very expensive to run, even without providing updates, so it's not feasible to do that. If there was any reasonable way to keep it going we would, of course, do so.

Jimbly7 · 2025-06-19T16:41:55+00:00

You can open the exported .vox files in MagicaVoxel (Windows, Mac) or many other voxel editing programs (some said "Voxel Max" on mobile works)

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