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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Nice! I'll take a look at that. Loc is funny because there are clearly tons of tools (both paid and free), but it's not that hard of a problem so it's easy to have the "not invented here" mentality and just do it yo
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Localizing Unity games as an indie dev(bjmalicoat.com)
40 points by bmalicoat 4y ago|13 comments
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I love stuff like this. Around 2008 or so I was working on a Java game for the T-Mobile Sidekick (aka hiptop). The platform let you register url scheme handlers so I registered "drod" (the game was a from-scratch port of Deadly Ro
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
9+ is the age rating. I released it in the middle of December.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thanks for the support, really appreciate it! Glad you're enjoying Pine Tar too :) Mobile vs PC/Consoles - I have more mobile experience and the path to publish is more straightforward. Getting through Apple and Google takes very
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I have a good friend who is a talented artist. We tend to look for styles that let us produce game content or marry existing content to the aesthetic with minimal extra work. Specifically, picking a good style and using shaders to achieve i
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I'll go with the trite advice of don't quit your day job. Making games is very accessible right now. Making money off games is not as accessible! I just released my biggest game Pine Tar Poker ( https://www.pinetarpoker.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I feel the same way. I worked at Microsoft on HoloLens and most the folks I knew there felt like Mixed Reality was modern marketing spin on AR. It makes sense from a marketing perspective since HoloLens was a very different beast than somet
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I meant when you used a 360 game on 360 hardware. But you're right, back compat teams did a number of per title fixes.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
When I worked at Xbox I was amazed to see the 360 game boot code had multiple title ID checks in it. For some titles it would report things differently, for others it would sleep a bit. When new features like cloud saves were introduced, th
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Haha, it is possible! It's basically there as a coin sink. I don't think it would pass muster to be in a real casino because the payout table is truly random!
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Try to complete the active tarot card :) There's quite a few more stones.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thank you! I'll update the website with more copy that isn't "in-universe", as well as a non-trailer video of gameplay. Appreciate your support.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thanks. Another skill I'm working on discovering is fresh eyes. It's tough to see something you've been so close to for the better part of year through the eyes of someone with no context! Add to that all the things that inun
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Good suggestions! I'll record a long play video. I've never done a WebGL build with Unity, but I'll try that too. I'll update this post if I get something going...
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Good question. I wasn't sure the applicability, but as a long time reader of HN who has found hidden gems, I figured it couldn't hurt to share something I was proud of.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Looking for it! I'll edit this post when I find it... Edit: Found it - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q4JwDFIVvPki6zx18RerbMmboVz... The rules in the game are slightly different and there are more hand type
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I wish I knew! I've been testing out different strategies. I have a free game with an IAP ( http://apple.co/downwordly ) and it does okay from an install perspective, but not great for purchases. I was lucky to get it on
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thanks for the feedback! HN really tests your marketing skills, stripping away gifs and videos. My skills in that department are already lacking so it's good practice.
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Show HN: Yahtzee and Poker and Cosmic Horror = Pine Tar Poker(pinetarpoker.com)
45 points by bmalicoat 4y ago|22 comments
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I should add that to the docs. I have seen changes in Gists take a few minutes to propagate fully. The widget fetching outside the app is a little more sensitive since iOS budgets widget updates. Glad you got it figured out!
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Hmm... that shouldn't happen! If you want to jump over to the discord, I can help debug - https://discord.gg/GnmdtvKW7M No sweat if not.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thanks! I agree about the catalog. I expanded on the thought here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33780128 tl;dr - couldn't make economics work but we felt the tech is still useful for DIYers.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I hadn't heard of it before.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
We've only made the iOS widget viewer since that's what we both have, but from what I know about Android widgets, it seems possible to build one there too. The widget.json schema is intended to be platform-agnostic.
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
You're totally right. We originally built a backend service with a catalog to curate widget.json as part of a paid service. We couldn't work out the economics (and it felt a little weird charging when we didn't make the conte
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
Great call! We did talk about this a little bit, but it didn't make the v1 schema. Definitely seems like a smart idea to support given that some widget.jsons might require a fair bit of work to assemble (and you don't want to buil
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I happened to read this comment this morning which is exactly the type of use case we had in mind when developing widget.json: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33776994
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Show HN: Widget.json and Widget Construction Set(wd.gt)
45 points by bmalicoat 4y ago|16 comments
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by bmalicoat 4y ago
I just finished V1 of https://wd.gt/ and was thinking of doing a ShowHN today. Basically it's RSS for widgets. You define some json and host it and then you have a dynamic, web-powered widget with no additional app req

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