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Adding 'language' or 'programming' to the search query should solve it. Anyway Google seem to retain context when searching certain topics. But yeah there's definitely room for improvement and creativity here.

I bet someday in the future new fans of the game will find the art style so fresh. Ron is an artist and true to his craft.

As a fan of the game series I can't wait to see what's in store.

I think the artwork is unique and will attract newcomers, instead of repeating what's already there and serving only the "hardcore fans" who threw all that hate.

Agreed, although I think the genre is mostly popular as pixel art retro style, especially that he made thimbleweed park that way.. that's probably why they wanted a different art style.

Personally I think Ron is an artist and I'll buy whatever he's selling.

It's my favorite game too, this game takes me back to wonderful childhood memories. Ironically that puzzle was the one of the easiest for me to solve

Big fan of the game series here. Honestly it's such a thrill to have Ron work on RTMI. I can't wait to see what he has in store for us.

Node.js seems boring at this point

Yes it's true, we already use Redis for several workloads and operations so it's not really an extra thing to manage, on the contrary we don't need to learn about say rabbitmq and manage it, just worry about Redis.

Why do you consider it bad for local dev? A Redis instance literally takes 1MB memory when started.

At our company we use Redis, it's lightweight and has list structure which can be used as a push/pop queue

The basic gist of it is that on one end a producer pushes to the list and a consumer(s) on the other end pops the job and executes it. Fire and forget style.

I start with autos and miner Most common consonants and all vowels covered A try or two from there will get you covered

HoMM3 was soo interesting to me when I first saw it, I thought it was like chess (dumbed down) and a boardgame. The mythology was also like a reference to me. I played it for so many hours when I was a teenager. I played HoMM4 and HoMM5 also. HoMM4 felt like an incomplete game but very nice to play. HoMM4 has an amazing soundtrack, I occasionally still play it while working.

I think recently there was an imitation of the game on mobile, and we all know how bad that would probably be given the horrible game mechanics of mobile gaming (ads, play to win, waiting to build)

Good point. My assumption is that the first hit would be memory usage, way before core usage.

There are many options for scaling:

- vertically scale by adding more memory

- start redis instance on another port (takes 1mb) if decided to add more cores on the same vm

- separate data into another vm

- sharding comes out of the box, but that would be my last resort

A single core small Redis server can do wonders.

For fire and forget type jobs you can use lists instead of pub/sub: save a job to a list by a producer, pop it on the other end by a consumer and execute it. It's also very easy to scale, just start more producers and consumers.

We're currently using this technique, to process ~2M jobs per day, and we're just getting started. Redis needs very little memory for this, just a few mb.

Redis also supports acid style transactions.

I once copied the following comment from another post here, I find it spot on: "I’ve a few different approaches I take depending on the task (and if I’m honest, my mood or levels of motivation): - a new programming language, especially something closer to a systems language, I have a standard set of things I’ll try to implement. Read/write a file. Turn a structured object into JSON, parse JSON to an object. Basic script that can be run from CLI, parses flags/args, reads stdin. Send a HTTP request. Implement the most basic web server."

To be fair it was bad, it lacks depth and imagination that Hayao has

This makes me so happy, lately the only movies I've been genuinely enjoying are his. There's something healing about his movies.