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[Christian Knudsen]

Could you somehow combine the issues of "no point" and "no common seed" by allowing players to share a file that both contains the seed used for their most recent run as well as the level they reached? The goal would then be to reach the same level...

[ortoslon]

continuation: levels 60-76 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c88JBwRiOfo

picking up a 16 heat seek token was a large mistake because my range started decaying. also, most of the time I was too concerned with immediate survival to risk entering things.

[Destral]

Each has its own appeal. If you have a common trunk that people can play, they can compare notes and strategies for certain tough levels, for example, which gives the game a social aspect. In this case, things like Youtube videos of playthroughs have that common ground to garner interest in players.

i can't imagine anyone having fun comparing notes and strategies for beating a procedurally generated level

That part was specifically referring to a 'fixed seed' common trunk, not to procedurally generated levels

[ortoslon]

if a level was created from a seed, it's procedurally generated