Baron_Von_Meats

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Show HN: Meatshields – Write your own strategy game AI
7 points by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago|1 comments
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Haha, and even that is putting it lightly ;) I've had some friends volunteer to help but they never seem to pan out so perhaps it's time I got a professional :)
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Yes, that's a totally valid suggestion. So far the best I've done is make the buttons significantly more usable on mobile. I would love to create a mobile-only layout or an app. I realize this a very important request for a lot of
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Funny enough -- while fixing this, I found out that you can just sign up without an email and then immediately go to your profile page and add your email with less strict validation. Whoops. Well go ahead and use this as a workaround for no
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
So because my game is hosted on Heroku, there are some banned IPs that facebook has blacklisted that Heroku uses. I did give it a shot earlier in development but perhaps I can get it working with google login! :) I'm aware of the proxy
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Yeah, I tried to shrink the tutorial as much as I could to just be the core gameplay elements. Nothing fancy. When I was first showing the game to people they would have a really hard time knowing what to do in a real game so I figured this
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Oh, whoops! I had figured Show HN was more about the discussion but that's a great suggestion, since people can come comment on it anyways. Thanks for the tip!
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Yeah that is basically how it works now, and I think I'm gonna do it! (Discussed a little bit in another comment on this thread.) Player's would have to host their own AI but it'd be as simple as sending over the exact same g
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Huh. I hadn't even thought of players hosting their own AI! That would actually be EXTREMELY easy to implement on my end, haha. You are correct, and that's basically what the game is doing already just to my own AI server, so all
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Thank you! Yeah it'd have to be only for people who have submitted their email but that's still better than nothing. Guess I know what I'm adding next!
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
I love that idea! I've had a couple friends express interest, although I'm not sure I'm talented enough to set up a system for player-submitted AI. If the game doesn't work out, though, that's a really wonderful nex
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by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago
Yeah, I actually completely agree. While it's not something I prioritized during development, perhaps it should be something I prioritize now. I tried to minimize the friction by not requiring any email verification but I realize that&
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Show HN: Meatshields – An in-browser turn-based strategy game
113 points by Baron_Von_Meats 9y ago|36 comments
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by Baron_Von_Meats 10y ago
Yeah, a lot more than I was expecting which was probably super naive of me
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by Baron_Von_Meats 10y ago
Oh wow, the poor server is having trouble handling the new traffic! Thanks for checking it out though! Will try to resolve asap
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Show HN: Meatshields – A free, online, turn-based strategy game
42 points by Baron_Von_Meats 10y ago|5 comments