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Signed Distance Field rendering of color bit planes(gpuhacks.wordpress.com)
2 points by aaronetz 13y ago|1 comments
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by aaronetz 13y ago
Just finished game #3, died 83 times (wasn't too hard after playing Super Meat Boy :)). Some ideas: add two more controls for increasing vertical and horizontal velocity (i.e. holding "shift" will make to box go faster and ju
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by aaronetz 13y ago
Nice games. I like the simple visuals. Played game #2 for a bit. One specific comment: Holding "up" fires at the maximum rate (pressing up repeatedly doesn't fire any faster). Also, there is no downside to constantly holding
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The Floyd Leg(kickstarter.com)
2 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013?
11 points by aaronetz 13y ago|8 comments
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by aaronetz 13y ago
I think that for games, where the UI isn't probably going to be native, there is no (major) reason not to develop cross-platform. Engines like Unity or libgdx let you do just that. Other than testing, I don't see how iOS compatibi
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by aaronetz 13y ago
Chrome on Windows 7 bug report: back button doesn't work, mouse wheel doesn't work (scrolls at infinitesimal speed), touch-screen style controls which don't work well with a mouse (click&drag, besides not being intuitive
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by aaronetz 13y ago
I agree. When my family and I lived in Vancouver BC, we didn't own a car for 3 years, and we have little children. It actually worked quite well. We rode buses / walked / biked to work, rode buses for weekend trips (Vancouver
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by aaronetz 13y ago
An anecdote: One of my professors, Dan Gordon, authored a paper [1991 Gordon and Chen] which was used in Doom's engine implementation of BSP [1]. He was quite happy to learn about it from me, some 15 years later :) [1] https:/&#x
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by aaronetz 13y ago
<blasphemy alert> Does anyone know some good alternatives to chess, as a game that mixes deep thought and aesthetic variety? I tried Go, but found it somewhat boring compared to chess, because of its uniformity (which, on the other ha
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by aaronetz 13y ago
I really like those, but hanging to X lines of code bothers me sometimes. It can make the code unreadable - no comments, multiple statements in one line, obfuscated variable names, etc. I wish there were a better metric that would still imp
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by aaronetz 13y ago
I agree. Having worked in the military, where there were no bonuses whatsoever, and salaries were based on a standard scale, I found that what made the good employees good was that they were proud of / enjoyed their work, and not money
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Bolt Riley - A Reggae Adventure Game(kickstarter.com)
3 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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by aaronetz 13y ago
This is awesome. BTW, there are ways to automatically extract normals from 2D [1]. I wonder if it would be possible to use it for this purpose. [1] http://make3d.cs.cornell.edu
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TogetherJS bookmarklet(sillero.github.io)
1 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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by aaronetz 13y ago
I definitely notice that effect personally. The problem is, I often find myself easily distracted (e.g. opening HN!) when faced with a hard problem or a "mental wall". It really hinders my ability to finish tasks sometimes. What d
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Ask HN: What do you do for a living?
11 points by aaronetz 13y ago|30 comments
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Show HN: Paint Splash - a particle-based, gravity-affected painting app(play.google.com)
1 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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by aaronetz 13y ago
As a native Hebrew speaker, I would love to see the reverse lookup. Enter a biblical Hebrew word and see how it propagated to other languages. Two words that I could come up with were leviathan and behemoth, but that was easy since these so
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by aaronetz 13y ago
Finally, true full screen support! That was my main gripe with Android VS iOS. Personally I find the navigation bar very hindering in games, where I have to be careful not to touch it (not to mention the wasted screen space). My young kids
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Google Apps Script(developers.google.com)
2 points by aaronetz 13y ago|0 comments
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by aaronetz 13y ago
I wonder where Tuper Tario Tros[1] stands from a copyright standpoint, then. At what point would you say that a game violates copyright? Obviously Super Mario Bros was the inspiration for a whole generation of platformer games that came aft
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by aaronetz 13y ago
While I personally tend use applications fully maximized, I do have a need to open two (or more) applications side-by-side from time to time. I do not like a multiple monitor setup because I find it very distracting having a second monitor