No, that’s just the seed used to initialize the PRNG, so that running again with the same seed produces the same result.

Yeah, you're not wrong. I know Java and BASIC are very different. That wasn't my point. My point was that BASIC was about 30 years old when Java came out. Java is now 30 years old.

For preserving my own personal history more than anything else, I've posted the source code on GitHub: github.com/jamis/lux-ke... -- it probably is of no interest to anyone but me, but at least check out that readme and boggle at how obsessively thorough I was at documenting this thing!

The image itself was patterned after a more famous image called "1984", where the four balls at the top were the "1", "9", "8", and "4" balls (from a July 1984 paper titled "Distributed Ray Tracing", here: graphics.pixar.com/library/Dist...).

Oh, that’s good to know! I’ll bump it up on my to-read list. :)

I loved Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell", so "Piranesi" has been on my radar for a while. Did you like it?

Thanks for giving the book a try!

A final bit of trivia: my dungeon generator was actually included (with my blessing) on a CD distributed with the 25th anniversary edition of Dragon Magazine (issue #284)! That was flattering. :)

Other generators I wrote from that period are also on GitHub, posted a few years ago: github.com/jamis/dnd-npc and github.com/jamis/dnd-du... . I also wrote a town generator, but I can't find it anymore. 🤷🤷

Interestingly, this was the *second* version of my treasure generator. I almost certainly do not have the first version anymore, but it was probably a little bit less over-engineered than this one. :)

The other two repositories were different UI's for a random treasure generator built on top of Basilisk. (One UI for web, the other for Win32.) Both (including the web UI!) are written in C. github.com/jamis/dnd-tr... github.com/jamis/dnd-tr...

"Basilisk" was a kind of simple scripting engine for parsing data files. It was honestly more than a little over-engineered, but I was passionate and didn't have any kids yet, so I was practically made of time. :) github.com/jamis/basilisk

Same! It might be the primary reason I bother roasting a turkey :)

Thank you for the stickers! They turned out so well 👍

Credit for that goes entirely to Adviti! I think she said she saw it online somewhere?