{"id":10247,"date":"2012-11-21T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-978"},"modified":"2012-11-21T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-21T14:36:19","slug":"review-of-portraying-the-terran-condition-an-approach-to-simulate-a-civilization-on-rock-paper-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/review-of-portraying-the-terran-condition-an-approach-to-simulate-a-civilization-on-rock-paper-shotgun\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of &quot;Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization&quot; on Rock Paper Shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice review of our research paper shooter <a href=\"http:\/\/monochrom.at\/portraying-the-terran-condition\/\">&#8220;Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization&#8221;<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t&#8220;This 7D (backwards compatible to 2D) world simulation depicts six different key events in the history of Terra (&#8216;Earth&#8217;), a low-tech civilization that self-destructed several aeons ago. Based on the relatively few biological and cultural artifacts, a team of multi-AI minds was able to recreate a stunningly accurate depiction of this ancient civilization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\tPTTC:AATSAC is downright bizarre. I&#8217;m not entirely sure what creators Damien Di Fede, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Eric Wenske, and Heather Kelley are hating on with it (so-called &#8220;realistic\u201d games, maybe?), but it&#8217;s beyond surreal. Allegedly, you&#8217;re playing through a host of major events in human history, but the advanced civilization that&#8217;s come across the bones of ours has pieced them together all wrong. Unsurprisingly, it&#8217;s very silly. I was sold when it very matter-of-factly explained to me that humans were strange vacuum cleaner creatures with cube-firing guns for hands. Using my mighty digital digits, I then went on to exterminate an evil race of pink pinata\u2026 things, because that&#8217;s definitely what happened during, say, Napoleon&#8217;s defeat at Waterloo. Granted, PTTC:AATSAC has some serious issues. The healing mechanic is (maybe purposefully) tedious, and it&#8217;s pretty easy for enemies to obnoxiously get the drop on you. As with Crystal Crashers, it&#8217;s more amusing than it is an example of sound game design.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2012\/11\/21\/here-are-some-fuck-this-jam-games-i-like\/\">Link to review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice review of our research paper shooter &#8220;Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;This 7D (backwards compatible to 2D) world simulation depicts six different key events in the history of Terra (&#8216;Earth&#8217;), a low-tech civilization that self-destructed several aeons ago. Based on the relatively few biological and cultural artifacts, a team &#8230; <a title=\"Review of &quot;Portraying The Terran Condition: An Approach To Simulate A Civilization&quot; on Rock Paper Shotgun\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2012\/11\/21\/review-of-portraying-the-terran-condition-an-approach-to-simulate-a-civilization-on-rock-paper-shotgun\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-10247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","tag-mono","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/10247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}