{"author_link":"\/users\/smbe19","author_name":"smbe19","author_uid":"1002577","comments":[{"author_name":"gajop","author_uid":"1005081","time":"2020-04-21T07:16:31Z","epoch":1587453391,"modified":1587453391,"text":"Nice game, I spent a bit too much time playing it. But it's also a bit too difficult, I fail all contracts immediately, and I struggle with disk space most of the time. I wish I knew which services I had installed (and how many instances), so I can free up space more efficiently.\nAll in all, well done!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DeinFreund","author_uid":"1114064","time":"2020-04-21T09:02:24Z","epoch":1587459744,"modified":1587471499,"text":"@gajop Thanks for playing it.\n\n`ps` will tell you which services you have installed. Pipe into more when you have many services late game.\n\nIn general the `tutorial` command should be rather helpful with debugging your setup once you've played through the scripted part.\n\nBalance is surely off, so good to have any feedback. Edit: Changed the reward formula so you should be able to afford the necessary disk upgrades now without going bankrupt right at the start. Keep in mind the idea is to have servers dedicated for specific tasks, not all tasks on one server.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SlimBun","author_uid":"1179939","time":"2020-04-21T13:33:13Z","epoch":1587475993,"modified":1587475993,"text":"Very cool :\/","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Bredian","author_uid":"1182620","time":"2020-04-21T13:35:05Z","epoch":1587476105,"modified":1587476105,"text":"It is not a game in typical meaning. It is just another day in Linux terminal :)","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Simply","author_uid":"1190083","time":"2020-04-21T13:43:58Z","epoch":1587476638,"modified":1587476638,"text":"Well done bro! I thinks its a bit hard but still nice.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kayahr","author_uid":"1176953","time":"2020-04-21T13:45:14Z","epoch":1587476714,"modified":1587476714,"text":"Looks like I'm a terrible system administrator. Constantly running out of money, need more hardware! :D I really like it. But one game-breaking bug: When I delete all files in bin folder the commands can still be executed. That's not realistic ;-)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"slam0","author_uid":"1179187","time":"2020-04-21T13:46:21Z","epoch":1587476781,"modified":1587476781,"text":"Nice retro look and feel for a real modern problem. Nicely done.\nIt's a bit on the hard side and feels like jet another workday for me. ","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Elmos Minion","author_uid":"1146133","time":"2020-04-21T13:46:22Z","epoch":1587476782,"modified":1587476782,"text":"This was a cool game! It was a bit hard to figure out what to do at first, but once I got it, it was a blast. The e-mails were hilarious.\n\nMaybe you could make the `tutorial` a bit more comprehensive, and have a separate `progress` command to tell you what to do next","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"IC Rainbow","author_uid":"1183063","time":"2020-04-21T13:51:22Z","epoch":1587477082,"modified":1587477082,"text":"Realism is through the roof here. Make sure you shot some coffee before starting a new run.\n\nPS: GUIs are for suckers. My mechanical keyboard agrees loudly.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DeinFreund","author_uid":"1114064","time":"2020-04-21T13:51:33Z","epoch":1587477093,"modified":1587477426,"text":"@bredian May I refer you to issue #1: https:\/\/github.com\/SmBe19\/LD46\/issues\/1\n\nAlso thanks for the feedback everyone. It might still be a bit hard - I wouldn't expect somebody to get far on the first try, but sysadmins don't have it easy either :P \n\nIf there is some specific part of the game that seems impossible to pass, please let us know. Been using too many cheats for testing.\n\n@kayahr Oh no, that's unplayable. Thanks for finding the issue.\n\n@elmos-minion good idea.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Vedal","author_uid":"1072940","time":"2020-04-21T13:55:46Z","epoch":1587477346,"modified":1587477347,"text":"Scarily accurate but very fun! It was a bit confusing at first but I spent a lot of time playing this once I got the hang of it. Great job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Guilherme Oliveira","author_uid":"1010336","time":"2020-04-21T14:02:40Z","epoch":1587477760,"modified":1587477760,"text":"That was interesting! It feels really hard and a lot of times I'm just typing commands and reading stats without really knowing what I have to do, replaying it probably will make me better at it, which is nice, I felt like knowing how to use a terminal really helped with the game, which is also nice. Reading emails was really interesting and I will probably come back to play more","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Tesseract","author_uid":"1185657","time":"2020-04-25T00:38:01Z","epoch":1587775081,"modified":1587775081,"text":"Great game, but a very steep learning curve. I found that I didn't have time to follow the tutorial, and if I start off well, then requests increase faster than I can afford hardware. I only felt able to get the hang of it when I was stuck at 1 user.\n\nAt that point, about 24 requests were succeeding each day and 8 were timing out, but I couldn't diagnose why requests were timing out (I tried blocking various request types with iptables, and that didn't help me).","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"wheybags","author_uid":"1046940","time":"2020-04-26T10:31:45Z","epoch":1587897105,"modified":1587897105,"text":"Nice idea, and I really liked the flavour text in the emails. It was a bit hard though, it was pretty difficult to tell what was actually causing things to go wrong. I kept getting to the point where I needed to install apache and qmail, and then I would not have enough space to install all the services I needed. It told me I needed more disk space, but I couldn't afford it. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to make more money before that point?","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld46\/202317-263b4689556113265771095ab1fce51b.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/SmBe19\/LD46","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/web","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/ls20-windows.zip","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/ls20-mac.zip","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/ls20-linux.zip","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"58869","g_author":"1002577","g_event":"LD46","g_eventkey":"77","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"269542","g_title":"Linux Simulator 2020","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"385","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"202317","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"202317","n_urlkey":"269542","n_parent":"176557","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/linux-simulator-2020","n_slug":"linux-simulator-2020","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"2577","n_created":"1587419710","n_modified":"1587491353","n_version":"618306","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":202317,"parent":176557,"superparent":9,"author":2577,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2020-04-20T23:41:07Z","created":"2020-04-20T21:55:10Z","modified":"2020-04-21T17:49:13Z","version":618306,"slug":"linux-simulator-2020","name":"Linux Simulator 2020","body":"![![promo3.png](\/\/\/raw\/79d\/1\/z\/2f1ee.png)](\/\/\/raw\/09d\/b1\/z\/3145a.gif)\n\nIT and cloud hosting is a fast-growing business, and after spotting\na job offering at shoutr.io requiring no prior knowledge, you decided to apply.\nAgainst all expectations, you actually got the job!\n\n## How to play\n\n\n![promo2.png](\/\/\/raw\/79d\/1\/z\/2f1b8.png)\n\nYou interact with the system using a programmer's favourite tool: the terminal.\nIt is very simple: type a command and press return to execute it.\n\nYou can open the built-in tutorial by typing `tutorial` and pressing return.\n\nIf you are already familiar with UNIX-style command line interfaces, you might\nalready feel at home as the most-used commands are also available here.\n\n## Goals\n\n![promo1.png](\/\/\/raw\/79d\/1\/z\/2f1ce.png)\n\nYour goal is to grow shoutr.io into a large and successful tech company, and to\neventually even provide a cloud platform to host other people's applications.\n\nYou start off with a small userbase, who each send requests to your infrastructure.\nKeep ahead of the growing demand to avoid congestion, and the growth will continue.\n\n\nIf you encounter problems with the CRT monitor effect, you can turn it off\nusing the switch at the bottom right.\n\n## Hints\n\nThe game has many little commands that might help you out. First you should play through the tutorial. If `tutorial` doesn't give you what you're looking for, try pressing `TAB` in a new line to see a list of commands. Each command has a documentation that can be read using `man [command]`. \n\nIf you're wondering about services and requests, use `man list` to see all that you have unlocked. Then `man [request\/service]` will tell you how to handle them.\n\n### Managing server load\n\nLater in the game it is easy to struggle at getting the most out of upgraded servers. There are four resources on each server that all have to be scaled up correctly.\n\n*CPU: *The CPU decides how many cycles are available per tick. If a service uses less than the number of cycles your CPU can provide, it is worth installing that service multiple times. A single service should be installed at most so many times that the sum of cycle requirements matches the CPU cycle capability. I.e. install 4 nginx services that each take 256 M Cycles on a server with a 1024 Mhz CPU.\n\n*RAM: *RAM decides how many processes the server can run in parallel. Services only use RAM while they're processing requests. A server should have enough RAM to saturate the CPU usage. A server with 4 nginx services (4x0.25GB RAM) and 4 database services (4x1GB RAM) and a 1024 MHz CPU will require between 1 to 4 GB RAM under full load. So it should have at least 4GB RAM.\n\n*HDD: *Hard disk space decides how many services can be installed on a server. Upgrade it as necessary when unable to install services required to saturate the server's other resources.\n\n*Queue: *The queue not only decides how many requests the server can store, but also limits the bandwidth of incoming requests. See the Downloading Requests section when running the `queue` command. The maximum bandwidth can be calculated by dividing the queue size by the connection delay (find out using ping). As a rule of thumb, if the server is not at 100% CPU load nor 100% RAM load, yet the queue is full that means the bandwidth is too small.\n","meta":{"author":[2577,114064,7575],"link-01-tag":[42332],"grade-06-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/SmBe19\/LD46","link-02":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/web","link-02-tag":[42336],"link-03":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/ls20-windows.zip","link-03-tag":[42337],"link-04":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/ls20-mac.zip","link-04-tag":[42339],"link-05":"https:\/\/ludumdare.games.smeanox.com\/LD46\/ls20-linux.zip","link-05-tag":[42341],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/09d\/b1\/z\/31450.png","allow-anonymous-comments":"1"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/46\/linux-simulator-2020","parents":[1,5,9,176557],"love":0,"notes":14,"notes-timestamp":"2020-04-26T10:31:45Z","grade":{"grade-01":25,"grade-02":24,"grade-03":26,"grade-04":24,"grade-05":26,"grade-07":25,"grade-08":25},"magic":{"cool":100,"feedback":19,"given":20.875,"grade":25,"grade-01-average":3.87,"grade-01-result":385,"grade-02-average":3.545,"grade-02-result":769,"grade-03-average":4.021,"grade-03-result":120,"grade-04-average":4.068,"grade-04-result":375,"grade-05-average":3.667,"grade-05-result":1175,"grade-07-average":3.717,"grade-07-result":318,"grade-08-average":3.522,"grade-08-result":965,"smart":-1.9803941180393}},"text":"![![promo3.png](\/\/\/raw\/79d\/1\/z\/2f1ee.png)](\/\/\/raw\/09d\/b1\/z\/3145a.gif)\n\nIT and cloud hosting is a fast-growing business, and after spotting\na job offering at shoutr.io requiring no prior knowledge, you decided to apply.\nAgainst all expectations, you actually got the job!\n\n## How to play\n\n\n![promo2.png](\/\/\/raw\/79d\/1\/z\/2f1b8.png)\n\nYou interact with the system using a programmer's favourite tool: the terminal.\nIt is very simple: type a command and press return to execute it.\n\nYou can open the built-in tutorial by typing `tutorial` and pressing return.\n\nIf you are already familiar with UNIX-style command line interfaces, you might\nalready feel at home as the most-used commands are also available here.\n\n## Goals\n\n![promo1.png](\/\/\/raw\/79d\/1\/z\/2f1ce.png)\n\nYour goal is to grow shoutr.io into a large and successful tech company, and to\neventually even provide a cloud platform to host other people's applications.\n\nYou start off with a small userbase, who each send requests to your infrastructure.\nKeep ahead of the growing demand to avoid congestion, and the growth will continue.\n\n\nIf you encounter problems with the CRT monitor effect, you can turn it off\nusing the switch at the bottom right.\n\n## Hints\n\nThe game has many little commands that might help you out. First you should play through the tutorial. If `tutorial` doesn't give you what you're looking for, try pressing `TAB` in a new line to see a list of commands. Each command has a documentation that can be read using `man [command]`. \n\nIf you're wondering about services and requests, use `man list` to see all that you have unlocked. Then `man [request\/service]` will tell you how to handle them.\n\n### Managing server load\n\nLater in the game it is easy to struggle at getting the most out of upgraded servers. There are four resources on each server that all have to be scaled up correctly.\n\n*CPU: *The CPU decides how many cycles are available per tick. If a service uses less than the number of cycles your CPU can provide, it is worth installing that service multiple times. A single service should be installed at most so many times that the sum of cycle requirements matches the CPU cycle capability. I.e. install 4 nginx services that each take 256 M Cycles on a server with a 1024 Mhz CPU.\n\n*RAM: *RAM decides how many processes the server can run in parallel. Services only use RAM while they're processing requests. A server should have enough RAM to saturate the CPU usage. A server with 4 nginx services (4x0.25GB RAM) and 4 database services (4x1GB RAM) and a 1024 MHz CPU will require between 1 to 4 GB RAM under full load. So it should have at least 4GB RAM.\n\n*HDD: *Hard disk space decides how many services can be installed on a server. Upgrade it as necessary when unable to install services required to saturate the server's other resources.\n\n*Queue: *The queue not only decides how many requests the server can store, but also limits the bandwidth of incoming requests. See the Downloading Requests section when running the `queue` command. The maximum bandwidth can be calculated by dividing the queue size by the connection delay (find out using ping). As a rule of thumb, if the server is not at 100% CPU load nor 100% RAM load, yet the queue is full that means the bandwidth is too small.\n","title":"Linux Simulator 2020"}