BSTRhino

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by BSTRhino 1y ago
It seems that Github's successor feature only allows your successor to re-assign ownership for your public repositories. I'm currently using a private repository so this sadly does not work for me. Otherwise I would grab this feat
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Wow, playroom looks awesome! It is great that it lets people integrate with all the existing libraries like ThreeJS for example. Glad to hear it has found its audience!
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
I can't really speak for Street Fighter V, but I can say that Easel would assign command delay to the person who is introducing it. So if a person is somehow forcing their inputs to arrive later than they should, they would be assigned
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Yes, all the Easel games are sharing infrastructure, which is much more cost-effective for all of us. In general it's not really something that really affects players or developers. When a game developer chooses to publish their game,
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
You are right. I am insane. I've had many existential crises about this exact issue over the past 3 years. I just had a very very particular idea of what I wanted to do and nothing else would do. Making automatic multiplayer was only h
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Great to meet another rollback fan! It sounds like you have had a lot of experience with it. I'm sure I can add those things which you have mentioned - that's why we're in the beta testing phase to figure out things like this
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Woohoo! I'm excited for you to dig in!
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
WASM-4 is great, I remember hearing about it when it was released. It is a similar model where it makes the multiplayer basically invisible to the programmer, which is cool :)
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Yes, I do get this. I made choices to prioritise an abstraction that, in my opinion, makes you more productive. It's not going to work for certain kinds of people or games. One of my original motivations for creating Easel came from my
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Unfortunately, this is not compatible with the rollback netcode model. However, all the world state is stored in WASM linear memory and so it is not the most straightforward to decode. The rollback netcode model is necessary to make the mul
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Yes, it's true Easel does rollback on every input. I may be able to improve this. One great thing about controlling the programming language is there are a lot more places I can hook into for things like this. For example, Easel does d
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
I hadn't heard of BYOND until just then. Sadly its website seems to be down, I would like to learn more about it.
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Oh thank you!
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
Yes, I think it is super important that Easel games last forever and that has always been the plan. My long term plan is to create a standalone version of Easel that you can run on your server forever, regardless of what happens to Easel it
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Easel Is Now in Beta(easel.games)
2 points by BSTRhino 1y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Easel – Code multiplayer games like singleplayer(easel.games)
95 points by BSTRhino 1y ago|46 comments
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by BSTRhino 1y ago
https://easel.games/about A programming language for teenagers to learn to code by making multiplayer games. I've spent 3 years making the multiplayer completely automatic so you can just code it like a singleplayer ga
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by BSTRhino 2y ago
https://easel.games/about A 2D game programming language that lets you code multiplayer like singleplayer. My dream is for it to be a super-engaging way for teenagers to get into coding because everything they make they can
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by BSTRhino 2y ago
My project Easel ( https://easel.games/about ) is also trying to be a good first programming language for teenagers! So many projects try to innovate teaching programming by lowering the barriers, but not enough effort trying
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by BSTRhino 2y ago
Agreed. The moment the iPhone mini comes back, I am buying one straight away
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by BSTRhino 2y ago
Easel: https://easel.games
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by BSTRhino 3y ago
bbycroft is the GOAT!
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by BSTRhino 3y ago
Okay, I think I have confirmed this is the answer. I had this combined Ultima 8, Syndicate Plus, Wing Commander 2 CD: https://www.mobygames.com/game/144377/ultima-viii-pagan-stri... Which confirms that I was playi
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by BSTRhino 3y ago
This is so strange because I'm sure I remember seeing the "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!" message as a child. Am I the only one?
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Zipline: Next generation delivery drone system(twitter.com)
14 points by BSTRhino 4y ago|10 comments
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by BSTRhino 6y ago
Yes, the best fit for the data is the data itself, it's a tautology. Nothing wrong with Elo's exponential curve, it just can't beat the actual data. You raise a good point in that I could've created a training set and a
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by BSTRhino 6y ago
Wow, I wrote this article ages ago, didn't expect to see it posted here today. I just want to clarify the point of the article: Why would you fit a curve to the data when you can just use the actual data? That's the point of the a
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by BSTRhino 6y ago
Player retention was significantly lower before the new rating system was introduced. It wasn't just complaints, it's just that is a more direct metric because multiple changes may have affected the retention.
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by BSTRhino 6y ago
There is a minimum of 10 games before people start being ranked. People who quit early don't get ranked. People who have played 10 games gain a new long-term goal.
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by BSTRhino 6y ago
Yes, tried Glicko then TrueSkill, both generated huge amounts of complaints. New system produced few complaints. If the community had liked it, would've stuck with TrueSkill.

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