Talk:Hamurabi (video game)

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On the lines of its influence, I think it may be worth mentioning the genre of educational sustainable environment games that have evolved from this. I know I've played 2 of them but I unfortunately can't remember the names for them. One was for the Acorn platform and one was a game made by the German government IIRC. Both have you as a supervisor for some island and you're in charge of choosing how much land you use for development (and whether the level is sustainable or not). Your decisions would affect how well the island does from year to year and you receive reports on its progress. --Rambutaan 03:21, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was curious to see how the game was implemented, so I took a look at the code in Ahl's book. The following sequence seems wrong.

531 GOSUB 800
532 REM *** LET'S HAVE SOME BABIES
533 I=INT(C*(20*A+S)/P/100+1)
539 REM *** HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD FULL TUMMIES?
540 C=INT(Q/20)
541 REM *** HORRORS, A 15% CHANCE OF PLAGUE
542 Q=INT(10*(2*RND(1)-.3))
550 IF P<C THEN 210
551 REM *** STARVE ENOUGH FOR IMPEACHMENT?
552 D=P-C:IF D>.45*P THEN 560

Maybe I'm slow today but it seems that when line 540 is executed Q will always be less than or equal to 5. So C will be equal to 0, thus the player will always be impeached at the first round. Please tell me that I'm wrong.--130.238.12.209 (talk) 14:31, 6 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]