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xer0x on April 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Notch's Specification for the In-Game DCPU-16

Thanks for mentioning this. I was getting real confused about why someone would create a CPU/ASM for their game. Thought he'd then have to build the new game on top of that CPU and notch is crazy but that seemed a bit much..

sp332 on April 4, 2012 [–]

It's not completely unheard of. State machines are pretty popular in FPS's, and the Infocom Z-machine code is still used (although upgraded quite a bit) for modern "interactive fiction"/text adventure games.

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