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If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

What's the refresh rate and can I play Hunt showdown on it? They say a similar model has a 33hz refresh rate but don't mention this model

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if you can play games on this, but I know you definitely won't want to.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Choice of Games makes games that are unchanging text. You could probably do okay with that.

Actually...come to think of it, they should figure out some way to hook up with an e-reader manufacturer, sell their games in those stores. Like, those games also have basically zilch by way of memory or computational requirements, and I bet that the same kind of person who'd buy a dedicated e-reader to read books would probably be more-interested in a text-heavy game.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

they should figure out some way to hook up with an e-reader manufacturer, sell their games in those stores

just sell it as an ebook, with choices being tappable links to specific pages. brand agnostic, and distributable over the countless ebook stores that already exist. I'd be surprised if there weren't any CYOA books modernised that way already.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, that's a thought, but those games have some additional QoL logic to them, like automated stats keeping and checking and stuff. Nice to just have the computer handle it.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Please note that even at 30hz eink displays still have hundreds of milliseconds of latency