Why it is time to start thinking of games as databases

• ideas

  19 3,763 1.8

  a hundred ideas for computing - a record of ideas - https://samsquire.github.io/ideas/ (by samsquire)

In 2013 I wrote about "game interfaces for work" where work interfaces should act like games. Real time strategy games make you feel empowered, if you could queue up real work in a units runqueue. Of course you'll have actions besides "build" and "attack" to map to the richness of the world.

https://github.com/samsquire/ideas#71-gaming-interfaces-for-...

Even the mouse is a database

• castle

  1 539 5.3 Haxe

  A structured database with a local web service to edit it (by ncannasse)

Haxe has CastleDB [0], which I've used once, and it's great. (On Godot now, so mostly using Resources, which can be structured data on steroids.)

0. https://github.com/ncannasse/castle

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