Reading up on Factorio
2 deep · digging since jan 07
- How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU
The author reimplemented Pizza Tycoon's traffic system by reverse-engineering the original's elegant use of single-direction road tiles, avoiding complex pathfinding on a 25 MHz CPU.
- AI Needs Game Designers - David Kaye’s Essays
Multi-agent AI orchestration, as seen in tools like StarCraft and Factorio, requires the parallel attention management and intuitive interfaces that game designers have spent decades perfecting.