BSTRhino

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by BSTRhino 8mo ago
https://easel.games A beginner-friendly programming language for 2D games where multiplayer is automatic. Intended to be an engaging way for teenagers to learn to code by making games they can play with their friends. Like a ble
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Free storage, name filtering – Easel's January 2026 update(easel.games)
1 points by BSTRhino 9mo ago|0 comments
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by BSTRhino 9mo ago
I truly loved Old Skies! It was my favourite game last year.
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Show HN: The Logical Answer (an Autism Simulator)(easel.games)
1 points by BSTRhino 9mo ago|0 comments
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by BSTRhino 9mo ago
https://easel.games A beginner-friendly programming language for 2D games where multiplayer is automatic. Intended to be an engaging way for teenagers to learn to code by making games they can play with their friends. Like a ble
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
If you're asking why Easel is a new programming language and not an existing one, the biggest reason is that building our own programming language meant we could build multiplayer into the fabric of the programming language, making mul
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Show HN: Easel - learn to code by making games you can play together(easel.games)
2 points by BSTRhino 10mo ago|2 comments
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Show HN: You Shall Not Pass the Parcel(easel.games)
1 points by BSTRhino 10mo ago|0 comments
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
Thank you and I am pleased whenever someone engages and gives me their honest thoughts, it is always helpful. Maybe I'll rewind a bit, and I'm sorry if this is a long post! I've just had a teenager who finished making a Chess
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
https://easel.games I'm working on a beginner-friendly online programming language for teenagers who want to learn to code. I think there is not a clear enough winner for what teenagers should do after they learn Scratch so
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
Make your invalid states unrepresentable
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
This is a very kind comment, thank you! Yes it has been a LOT of iteration to make the language what it is. I think it would make sense to have a page for experienced developers to better understand what Easel is. Right now maybe the closes
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
What a neat idea!
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
I’ve got a Discord from my previous game of about 2000 people, mostly teenagers, and my testers have mostly come from there. To name one example, just yesterday a teenager completed a chess game after 3-4 weeks on Easel. I’ve been incorpora
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
I made this little game in 1 day for Ludum Dare 58, and have taken a bit of time to polish it for Hacker News. I am fascinated by the way the multi-vehicle travelling salesman problem seems so simple on the surface, but actually has an almo
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Show HN: Beelines - a travelling salesman game, but with bees(easel.games)
4 points by BSTRhino 10mo ago|1 comments
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Easel: A beginner-friendly programming language(easel.games)
2 points by BSTRhino 10mo ago|0 comments
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Easel Now Has Stencils(easel.games)
13 points by BSTRhino 10mo ago|6 comments
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by BSTRhino 10mo ago
I'm making a beginner-friendly 2D game programming language for online games. This month I added stencils, which limit rendering to particular shapes, and can be used for scene transitions but also some other cool effects like fog-of-w
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
tldr I plan to make the singleplayer at least source available, but keep all parts related to multiplayer/persistence/hosting (anything that requires a server) closed for a few practical reasons: 1. Cheating: There has to be some
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
Yep, it's definitely a possibility down the line. Maybe a 7-day gamejam is a great way to explore your ideas!
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
Your book is awesome!
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
Crafting Interpreters!
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
Haha I wish I knew how to reach more people like you! Yeah exactly! I think the event-driven/signal-driven way of coding is the high-level way of coding a game, and so with Easel I was trying to make a game programming language where t
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
I've actually spent the past 3 years making Easel ( https://easel.games ) specifically for gameplay logic. It's got behaviors as a first-class language construct, ownership and context is implied hierarchically, it'
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
lol, I spent 3 years coding a game programming language...
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
Actually, all iterations of the for loop have the same ID. This is the design. So the second iteration has the same ID as the first iteration, which means it replaces the sprite created by the first. The fifth iteration has the same ID as t
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
It’s all my own code, interestingly. So the bot must be just searching for any email field and submitting to it, for some reason. My latest update is I managed to block the bot by hiding the email sign up until the user scrolls the page. Tu
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
It sounds like you are asking, if auto-incrementing IDs are assigned in parallel at runtime, then order of execution of the threads must affect which ID gets assigned to what, and that must make some interesting bugs? The IDs are assigned a
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by BSTRhino 11mo ago
Yes, I should have a "who is this not for" section somewhere, that's fair enough. Persistence is actually handled by the server, and then the server inserts an input back into the game state with the result when it's don

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