Continue?9876543210 sees your character deleted to RAM. How long can you survive?

[PCGamesN]

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[octopod]

for a game that has this voxel-like artstyle to it, it bothers me to see stuff like diagonals and super-fine detail in it. probably just me.

[Adsone]

Are Daft Punk in it?

[Virtanen]

I always liked to imagine that all the characters killed during my gaming are having a great big party in my RAM

all the untold millions killed during Total War drinking rum&cokes with all the Path of Exile hardcore characters I've lost

[Tmaxx]

tron game when?

[Dejarie]

I couldn't even survive reading all the way through the name of the game.

[gnomical]

So a character dies. That character is stored in the RAM (has been since creation) along with everything else for the game world (that is currently loaded/in use). So if a character died and the program hasn't freed up the memory space (depending on how often it garbage collects), the character would still be able to access the game world since both are in the RAM. I'm probably thinking too deeply into this.

[Antdawg]

[QUOTE=Gnomical;43433819]So a character dies. That character is stored in the RAM (has been since creation) along with everything else for the game world (that is currently loaded/in use). So if a character died and the program hasn't freed up the memory space (depending on how often it garbage collects), the character would still be able to access the game world since both are in the RAM. I'm probably thinking too deeply into this.[/QUOTE]

I look at it that when the character dies, the memory taken up by the instance isn't 'freed up', instead the address to the instance is forgotten by the game. And the garbage collectors attempt to find space that can be wiped so that it can be overwritten. Probably not what actually happens regarding RAM, but yeah just try not to think too deep haha.