Space Drilling Sim came out a couple days ago. I played it for a few hours.

tl;dr if you love being given a one quart cup of water and told to piss a gallon or be fired: this game is for you.

The conceit of the story is blah blah global warming blah energy crisis. A rock of Unobtanium hits the earth. Generic evil megacorporation goes waow we can burn this for fuel. Wagies get shipped off to die in the coal “draxnium” mines.

The game SpaceSlog was recently released. I played it for somewhere around an hour.

• It wants to be “Rimworld in space”
• Written in Godot
• You can put “temporary stockpiles” outside of your ship. This is the game’s idea of a sorting table¹

That is all I can say nice about it.

The things I can say I didn’t enjoy about it:

• “Reroll” didn’t work when I clicked it. I couldn’t regenerate my captain character.
• Hairstyles seem to be assigned at birth. I could neither reroll to get one I liked nor pick one.
• My captain kept complaining about a “lack of privacy.” I presume this is because they did not have a dedicated bedroom. This was farcicical as they were the only person on the entire ship complaining about a lack of private time².
• Standard “ate without table” nonsense³. Sleeping on the floor debuffs⁴.
• Selecting stockpiles requires clicking on floor tiles multiple times. Once selects the floor tile itself, then it selects the room, and only then does it select the stockpile.

I was able to enter “high burn” but this doesn’t seem to give you a map⁵. I guess we just go forward until we can’t go forward anymore. I never saw any indication that we were near anything worth stopping to see. Nor any indication we were headed anywhere at all but “forward” somehow.

The Never Clanker¹

Any project who does not lynch any contributor who ever once touched an LLM is slop.

They seem to think resisting AI by just isolating everyone who talks about it² is going to work. I don’t think these people are going to be very happy going forward–you have developers like Torvalds and Bellard testing out the models and finding the large ones to be good enough at low level work to admit they are useful sometimes. The amount of software that is going to have no interaction with anyone who interacted with Claude is asymptotically zero. That position is a house on a broken foundation that is sinking in to the swamp.