“A Dark Room” Developer bundles Ruby interpreter and code editor into Switch release (already taken down; see threadmarks for updates)

[Deleted member 5028]

Well, reading more of the developers responses to this then he's actively gone looking for trouble with Nintendo

This Easter Eggs is also for you adults that have forgotten what it felt like to print "hello world". "The sky is the limit" mentality has been beaten out of us and replaced with "don't do anything that will get you into trouble with the masters that feed us".

I've created the first spark. The fire is smoldering. Now *everyone* needs to make sure these embers don't die.

Build. Share. Teach a kid to draw a square instead of saying "ooooo you're going to be in troubllllleee" for fucks sakes.

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Clearly the masters in this case refer to Nintendo and their gated rules, but what a terrible way to get that message out. All he's done is burn bridges with virtually no reporting on this. Essentially, few people will know what's happened here or care about it.

https://ruby.social/@amirrajan/101991347839280423

 

[BY2K]

So the guy is now playing the victim for his dumbass move.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ls-he-sneaked-in-basic-code-editor-easter-egg

"I deeply regret how this has blown up," Rajan said.

"A simple toy sandboxed environment has been framed as this massive exploit. And of course it's the community that exploits these things that pushed it up to that level. I'm partly to blame with my sensationalised media posts.

"I acted alone and stupidly. It was a last second 'spark of inspiration' and I snuck it in assuming that plugging in a USB keyboard and pressing the "~" key wasn't part of the test plan.

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"Having Circle deal with some of this cannon fire is not something I'd ever want. These past three days have been the worst days of my life. And I don't know what to say except I'm sorry, and all I wanted to do was allow kids (and coding adults that have forgotten the joy) to discover what I discovered 25 years ago.

"The narrative that has played out online is exactly what's wrong with this trashcan fire of a world," Rajan continued.

"Everyone is an armchair expert. Everyone thought the worst. You've seen that I've been called a dick, idiot, and everything in between. Because sensationalised news sells. If the narrative was 'I added a sandbox to A Dark Room that lets you mod the game and provide a medium for kids to code (and technical parents to show their kids what they do),' it would have gone unnoticed.

"Again, I'm partly to blame for sensationalising the extent of the 'coding' environment."

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I don't know how someone in their right mind would think that hiding a code editor and ruby interpreter in a game that is accessed by using a debug function without telling the console maker is a good idea.