mrevilguy 2016-12-13 00:34
This game is a marvel! This library is massive (I hear it's infinite). And every single book is its unique book!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD37 → The Library of Babel
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This game is a marvel! This library is massive (I hear it's infinite). And every single book is its unique book!
Yeeeaaah!! Good one! I've always found Borges' Library of Babel a really interesting concept. And I've been thinking about making a digital version too! It's good to see people sharing this curious ideas.
Regarding to the game, I have some questions for you in order to see how accurate it is respect to the novel: are the books' contents randomly generated? In the novel they were not. There was a limited number of books, not infinite, and each one was unique and different from the rest. If you generate them randomly, there could be two or more identical books. If they're not randomly generated... then how did you do it?? :D
Great concept here, with good art too. A shame you couldn't get it feature complete.
@Naca
There are only unique books in this library and its somehow finite, because if you wander to the "end" of the library, the last room, the last floor and the last bookshelf the numbers overflow and you get from say: 1024 to -1024. In reality you get to visit about 18 Trillion rooms for 18 Trillion floors.