Endgame: Singularity - 0.25

Once again, great game. Source has trouble running on Python 2.5.4. Binary seems ok.

I just had a fantastic 4 hours playing this game! I can't believe you made all of this and it still ran fine. The wording was very educated and believable as well so congratulations. One question though... What if that AI created this game?

Carsten Eggers, go to options and turn off the day/night cycle. That should fix it for now. I'll send the bug off to -dev.

Do you have some tips&tricks for me? I was able to beat this game only once (on very easy), maybe i am doing something wrong, but the game seems very hard

It's funny coz ur an AI versing Humans who are controlled by an AI and so you also manipulate and hack yourself.

Well done.

A new version! Great! I discovered this a few weeks ago, and spent a night testing my Eee PC 900 battery time while playing this. I enjoyed it thoroughly. :)

Yeah, I love it!

I have some trouble with the new version:

lee@leenux:~/Desktop/singularity-0.30$ ./Endgame_Linux
Exception in function show at Tue Jan 27 12:32:03 2009 CEST:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/safety.py", line 58, in safe_call
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 175, in show
Dialog.top.maybe_update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 297, in maybe_update
self.update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 303, in update
self._update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 335, in _update
child._update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 322, in _update
check_mask += child._update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 312, in _update
self.redraw()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/screens/map.py", line 122, in redraw
night_alphas[self.night_start:] = mask_alphas[:right_width]
ValueError: matrices are not aligned for copy

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "singularity.py", line 1, in <module>
import code.singularity
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/singularity.py", line 226, in <module>
menu_screen.show()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 189, in show
result = self.handle(event)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 306, in handle
return self.call_handlers(handlers, event)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 318, in call_handlers
handler(event)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/button.py", line 109, in handle_event
self.activate_with_sound(event)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/button.py", line 122, in activate_with_sound
self.activated(event)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/button.py", line 151, in activated
self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/screens/main_menu.py", line 89, in new_game
dialog.call_dialog(self.map_screen, self)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 96, in call_dialog
retval = dialog.show()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/screens/map.py", line 467, in show
exit = dialog.call_dialog(self.menu_dialog, self)
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 96, in call_dialog
retval = dialog.show()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/dialog.py", line 175, in show
Dialog.top.maybe_update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 297, in maybe_update
self.update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 303, in update
self._update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 335, in _update
child._update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 322, in _update
check_mask += child._update()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/graphics/widget.py", line 312, in _update
self.redraw()
File "/home/lee/Desktop/singularity-0.30/code/screens/map.py", line 122, in redraw
night_alphas[self.night_start:] = mask_alphas[:right_width]
ValueError: matrices are not aligned for copy
lee@leenux:~/Desktop/singularity-0.30$

What a fun, addicting game. I only have two little nitpicky things to say about it.

1. Steal Computer Time should be below Buy Server. The first time I played, I wound up accidentally stealing a bunch of computers because I quickly went through New, Build, Okay.

2. I got Apotheosis on day 999. Yay! But I destroyed everything for fun once I had it and I lost.

Ahh, haven't played it since .26a. I still love it. (And since then I've looked at the Singularity Institute.)

BTW, I love this game!

You're an artificial intelligence program, created accidentally, and now on the run. You hack into computers, on which you live. Discover technologies to protect yourself.

I don't get it.

I played this 2 years ago. It was good! Now new a version?
I'll check it!

Yes, that's true, now that you mention it. It doesn't seem right, somehow, though I don't really see how *exactly* it should be improved. Anyway, it would be more clear if you didn't have to figure out exactly how to play the game. Of course, it was worth it...

Good job this is a fun game. I think the layout of some gui elements could use some work though, it doesn't seem fluid.

This is a great game! Yes, that bug fix made it perfect!

That bug got fixed in 0.26a.

After playing sometime it becomes suddenly impossible to build new processors, ... (The construction time becomes -1 day. And cash starts adding up at lightning speed, instead of decreasing.)
The error occurs with 0.26 (windows ver.), haven't looked at other platform/versions yet.
(very nice game btw)

i'd like to know how you started with that much money. must be the infamous cheat menu mentioned in g.py but i cant seem to activate

Yes, I did lose the emhsoft.net domain. I have since registered emhsoft.com, and all links should point there now. If anything still points to emhosoft.net, I want to know about it.

Here it is a mirror:
http://fenix.olocolors.org/~alpt/game/singularity_0.24.tar.gz

I love this. A couple of problems - the emhsoft.net domain seems to have been lost, could Mr McHenry maybe chuck this on sourceforge/berlios? I have a few ideas for it - for example an ability to decomission/end leases on facilities, or adding in a facility class and name on the Facility description.

More details:
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/weblog/arch_d7_2006_08_12.shtml#e432
Basically, someone made a virus with py2exe, and AVG (I assume that's what you're using.) starting flagging all py2exe programs as viruses. Update your definitions, and the problem should go away.

Virus? Sounds like the AI is trying to spread on its own... :)

Offhand, I'd say that this is one of the instances where antivirus software detects a non-existant virus. If you are worried, I'd recommend using the source version instead of the Windows version.

Why does my anti-virus say it has a PSW.Generic2 Trojan in it?

This has to be one of the best "homemade" games I've ever played! Very funny, only thing I didn't like was the lack of commands to use of some of the total cpu.