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Font as Tetris [video]

67 points by cs702 2y ago

HanClinto 2y ago
This is seriously impressive!! It reminds me of the way that speedruns and game replays are saved as deterministic timings of inputs -- almost like DOOM demofiles, except much more reasonable to track. I like your idea of a Gameboy Emulator! Game of Life also feels like it would be possible in this structure, but I think Tetris is absolutely perfect. Top notch!! What's the easiest way to play with this ourselves? Would be great if this font could be loaded on a webpage for us to play with interactively, but not sure how difficult that would be.
- erk__ 2y ago
  Game of life is certainly possible someone saw my Bad Apple font and not only reproduced it, but also made a Maze [0] So the biggest issue is that you need something that uses harfbuzz where you can recompile and add a flag. If you look in this repo there is something precompiled for Mac [1] which was the software I used as well. You can also build harfbuzz as described here [2] and load it into some program. I used to just install it globally on arch and then use Gimp for the Bad apple example. And lastly the same person who made the maze also made a way to use LD_PRELOAD to load a custom harfbuzz into arbitary software so you can follow that guide as well: [3] [0]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy [1]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples [2]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-shaper.md#enabling-the-wasm-shaper-when-building-harfbuzz https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha... [3]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font
dang 2y ago
Related ongoing thread: Tetris Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737294
erk__ 2y ago
Author here if there is any questions. Source code: https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts You can also see actual uses of this WebAssembly embedding to show that is not just for fun here: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples

67 points by cs702 2y ago

This is seriously impressive!! It reminds me of the way that speedruns and game replays are saved as deterministic timings of inputs -- almost like DOOM demofiles, except much more reasonable to track. I like your idea of a Gameboy Emulator! Game of Life also feels like it would be possible in this structure, but I think Tetris is absolutely perfect. Top notch!! What's the easiest way to play with this ourselves? Would be great if this font could be loaded on a webpage for us to play with interactively, but not sure how difficult that would be.

erk__ 2y ago
Game of life is certainly possible someone saw my Bad Apple font and not only reproduced it, but also made a Maze [0] So the biggest issue is that you need something that uses harfbuzz where you can recompile and add a flag. If you look in this repo there is something precompiled for Mac [1] which was the software I used as well. You can also build harfbuzz as described here [2] and load it into some program. I used to just install it globally on arch and then use Gimp for the Bad apple example. And lastly the same person who made the maze also made a way to use LD_PRELOAD to load a custom harfbuzz into arbitary software so you can follow that guide as well: [3] [0]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy [1]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples [2]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-shaper.md#enabling-the-wasm-shaper-when-building-harfbuzz https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha... [3]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font

dang 2y ago

Related ongoing thread: Tetris Font - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40737294

erk__ 2y ago

Author here if there is any questions. Source code: https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts https://github.com/Erk-/programmable-fonts You can also see actual uses of this WebAssembly embedding to show that is not just for fun here: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples