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brandonpelfrey · 1785513115 · focus · HN ↗
For folks that have never seen elevator scheduling the game: <a href="https://play.elevatorsaga.com/" rel="nofollow">https://play.elevatorsaga.com/ Enjoy this rabbit hole :D
1. grep_it · 1785514210 · focus · HN ↗
  I always come back to this game whenever I'm at a hotel for a conference waiting for the elevator.
2. perryprog · 1785514838 · focus · HN ↗
  Wow, I just came here to comment that I've always wondered if a game where you have to program an elevator scheduler would be any fun. I thought surely no-one's thought to make that before, too! Glad to be proven wrong.
3. alanwreath · 1785515023 · focus · HN ↗
  I wish there were more games like this. It’s such a simple premise but so satisfyingly difficult after each level. And it even has a bit of randomish failure which makes for even more challenge.
  1. john_strinlai · 1785515783 · focus · HN ↗
    at a quick glance, it reminds me of "the farmer was replaced", if you havent seen/heard of that one
    NooneAtAll3 · 1785516847 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Replaced/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/2060160/The_Farmer_Was_Re...
    I remember this one, it deserves all sorts of praise
    ivolimmen · 1785517548 · focus · HN ↗
    I can also recommend <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Machine/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...
    NooneAtAll3 · 1785520174 · focus · HN ↗
    and its sequel is also worth a mention <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/792100/7_Billion_Humans/
    but imo, unlike farmer, these games reaaaaly lack the ability to make functions/subroutines
    manually doing all the goto loops becomes tiring
  2. darkvertex · 1785517351 · focus · HN ↗
    If you buy the adorable monochrome console called the "Playdate" <a href="https://play.date" rel="nofollow">https://play.date it comes with a bunch of games included, including a cute elevator game where you help penguins to different floors while controlling the elevators yourself using the crank: <a href="https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/" rel="nofollow">https://play.date/games/flipper-lifter/
  3. ivanjermakov · 1785518430 · focus · HN ↗
    You will like <a href="https://www.zachtronics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.zachtronics.com/
    inigyou · 1785533600 · focus · HN ↗
    That's the guy who created Infiniminer, which was essentially 3D multiplayer Motherlode (a game everyone was playing at school lunch and I never figured out why) and inspired Minecraft.
  4. ftmch · 1785532763 · focus · HN ↗
    I had the idea to build something like it but for traffic lights. Never got around to actually do it. I have a feeling it probably exists.
    zengineer · 1785566604 · focus · HN ↗
    same :) Although, I wonder if building it is more fun than actually playing it then
4. emmanueloga_ · 1785515642 · focus · HN ↗
  looks very well made, but I still prefer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_Action !
5. CobrastanJorji · 1785518717 · focus · HN ↗
  This is great, but to me, the definitive elevator scheduling game was SimTower.
  1. genericone · 1785524388 · focus · HN ↗
    Sid Meier's Elevator Manager was such a great game... so much nostalgia.
    CobrastanJorji · 1785533578 · focus · HN ↗
    Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.
    iqihs · 1785534068 · focus · HN ↗
    Yoot Tower has been on my bucketlist of games to play for a while now
    jcranmer · 1785539855 · focus · HN ↗
    Waiting for Don Hopkins to jump into this thread, saying how he's going to release the source code soon...
    (<a href="https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower if you haven't seen one of his messages on the topic before)
    AndrewHart · 1785589629 · focus · HN ↗
    The only result I get in Google for this is... this post
    fragmede · 1785597291 · focus · HN ↗
    Sid Meier wasn't involved with SimTower, GP is mistaken.
  2. somat · 1785560246 · focus · HN ↗
    I never really "got" sim tower growing up, I liked sim city but bounced off tower. It only clicked years later when I read that it was an elevator simulator that got fleshed out a bit, Knowing this I enjoy it quite a bit more today than younger me who I guess was expecting a vertical simcity.
  3. bentcorner · 1785563520 · focus · HN ↗
    > People don't usually remember the average amount of time they wait. They fixate on those times when the elevator took FOREVER, the p90 case.
    I would always get a chuckle out of seeing some poor soul waiting 3 hours to go down a few floors after work, only because I failed to add stairs to the lobby.
6. inkkin · 1785530566 · focus · HN ↗
  Omg! <3
7. vova_hn2 · 1785536856 · focus · HN ↗
  Very fun indeed!
  Can't believe, that this [0] solution to Challenge #5 actually worked, lol
  Challenge #6 is "Transport 40 people using 60 elevator moves or less". Unfortunately docs don't make it clear what exactly counts as a "move".
  [0] <a href="https://gist.github.com/vovanz/66e4396934ac656a8f8c32fcee43d2cf" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/vovanz/66e4396934ac656a8f8c32fcee43d...
  1. fragmede · 1785599543 · focus · HN ↗
    bogosort!
8. lmazgon · 1785558190 · focus · HN ↗
  A few years back I made a CLI game in Go where you have to schedule elevators - <a href="https://github.com/lovromazgon/elecrash" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lovromazgon/elecrash
9. LordOmlette · 1785862381 · focus · HN ↗
  This is what I immediately thought of when I saw
  > How do you actually measure how good an elevator algorithm is?

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