there is, of course
Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf/_Fortress
And there is also "Natural Selection 2" where I believe the "1" was just a source engine mod.
I will let you decide if either counts or not.
"Magic the Gathering" aka the inventors of real life lootboxes, not sure about trading card games.
But even disregarding the "booster pack" method, the gameplay of a mixed deck of cards + randomized strategy gameplay is the same reward pattern of random loot drops in other games. It's just that the reward is a combo or win in a match and not an item.
ARPGs path of exile
MTG
Rogue likes
gear progression MMOs like WoW
could be continued...
Someone asked me to do a minimal but fully working prototype of... a docker hosted store front? It was apparently not very good, but the startup was kind enough to tell me why and I learned a lot. It did work, but I shoved entire python objects into sqlite and that just worked.
Ultimately I don't know if it was what they wanted, they fixed three things and used it or if it was truly not good enough.
@supersquirrel I agree completely. The intent, setup, participation (including springer nature and everyone who publishes there), isn't "dumb" though.
It's malicious, evil, negligent or whatever you want to call it.
I dislike "stupid" because it leaves that room for innocent mistakes and unintentional behavior.
People didn't care for ethical standards and this is the outcome.
@supersquirrel @spit_evil_olive_tips
Idk about stupid.
It's the direct consequence of having and collecting a bunch of data. Being able to come up with any idea, throw it against the wall and see what sticks was the entire point in the first place. Having almost all of them fail to find the ones that don't was the point of the setup.
This kind of use is also the reason why anyone who ever warned about data collection warned about it.
The cyberpunk thing rested completely on player choices, autonomy and an "alive" city. That was sort of hyped up and then the game was a very traditional linear RPG with an OK background.
An OK game but nothing genre redefining.
And there was hope that it would be, because CDPR had proven their competence and they had enough cash and autonomy to do something crazy and new and exciting and good. And they "merely" made a good game.
@boredsquirrel @SchwertImStein
I remember mentions that there were methods to host static content on ipfs. But I didn't do it myself. That's not "activity pub" federated but ipfs is also distributed.
Idk if that would serve your purpose.
@aim4harmony @yogthos
Finally a theory of dark matter I can get behind.
#space #science