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by ermir 6y ago
I always believed tools and games like these had great potential, and always wanted to make something like Roblox, but it's too capital intensive for my situation. I learned the basics of computing and programming by modding games in t
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by ermir 6y ago
This is really sweet, I love stuff like this. I do have a suggestion though, which is to create some aliases for the most commonly used Standard Library functions, such as Math.sin into s, or Math.cos into c, etc. This would save some space
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by ermir 6y ago
It works the other way around as well, American lack of cultural understanding of China also makes American influence operations seem very stiff and ineffective. I remember seeing a pro-democracy speech given by some Sinologist at an Americ
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by ermir 6y ago
For those that are unaware, if you or a loved one was diagnosed with Mesothelioma you may be entitled to financial compensation.
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by ermir 6y ago
I remember seeing an app once that was used in stadiums and other public venues that could be used to create a distributed and coordinated lightshow with the audience smartphones. How it worked is that the audience would activate an app, pu
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by ermir 6y ago
Mondays could also work, since it would allow people an extra weekend to finish what they want to show. Also it will allow them to procrastinate at work.
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by ermir 6y ago
If you do make it monthly, my recommendation is posting it on the 15th of every month, to stagger it with the other regular threads. This way you don't make the start of the month a scramble of postings.
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by ermir 6y ago
Since this thread has been extremely popular, is there a possibility to make this a regular monthly thread, similar to "Who wants to be hired"?
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by ermir 6y ago
I am making my own platformer game with a custom engine, with the hope of eventually adding user editable levels and WebRTC based multiplayer. https://infinitower.suldashi.com There are no mobile controls at the moment, and move
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by ermir 7y ago
What drives me insane is why are not people using WebRTC for video game client-server communication on the web. It works similar to UDP but controlled, so the security risks are significantly reduced. Now with simple-peer there's an ea
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by ermir 7y ago
What a complete nightmare! I bet that most of that data is useless, and the Dropbox account is just used as a dumping ground for everything and there's no tagging, cataloging, or any sort of data structures.
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by ermir 7y ago
It's just a normal spotlight, it looks like a beam because the top of the tower touches the cloud cover.
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by ermir 7y ago
I did not make the game you are asking about, but WebRTC has an even better feature than TCP, which is unreliable datagrams (essentially UDP). Very few people have done anything with it, since server support for WebRTC data channels is very
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by ermir 7y ago
Yes, you lose many of those capabilities, but you also gain new ones. I bet agar.io would never have been played had it been a Windows executable or a Steam game. The friction in starting the game and playing the game is so low, that it dra
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by ermir 7y ago
I have been thinking about this problem a lot and I may have a solution. Essentially, every time the user loads the page he gets a different obfuscated version of the base game. In this way, no script or plugin can be made to hook to your c
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by ermir 7y ago
Using things like DOM integration, WebRTC multiplayer, URLs as navigation requires you to develop for the web as a first class platform , which you can only do with JS directly.
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by ermir 7y ago
Well, the rendering problem can be solved by using an existing game engine. Rendering is done in WebGL, and the engine abstracts away the browser-specific details. Furthermore, because of Google's dominance, not many browser engines ar
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by ermir 7y ago
HTML/JS is criminally underrated as a game development platform. You get so much from it, like instant deployment, delivery, multiplayer features, and so much more. You can just send a link to your friends and they can join your game w
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by ermir 7y ago
Nice work, it took me about 4 attempts to get ECS right. It's very powerful and effective for video games.
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Show HN: JavaScript Game engine MVP with a demo of the Entity-component-system(github.com)
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by ermir 7y ago
Bad people cut both ways, and I think it's impossible to design any kind of document (CoC or otherwise) that can force assholes to behave nicely. All these discussions about formalizing relationships, expectations, and behaviors are in
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by ermir 7y ago
Open source projects (or any large collaboration) now have a new type of danger that many are unprepared to handle, in that there are people online who will shit on your work or make a giant spectacle that can ruin people just so that they
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by ermir 7y ago
To add to my answer, you can also do something like this: randomNumber = AES(secretKey, counter), where counter is just a sequence number that you can share in the open. Anyone without the key would not be able to generate the random number
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by ermir 7y ago
You can use a sequence of AES encryptions with a pre-shared seed, the quality of the random numbers will be among the highest you can get. You can find AES implementations all over the place, for basically any platform. You would do somethi
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by ermir 7y ago
This is quite cool! Any PCB designer that needs a lot of power should just use this design and hopefully the world will eventually settle on using micro USB for low power and USB PD for up to 100W. I am currently thinking of making a device
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by ermir 7y ago
People in Kosovo are quite upset at the Nobel committee for awarding the prize to Peter Handke, since he has always been an unabashed supporter and sympathizer of Slobodan Milosevic, who holds great responsibility for the Yugoslav wars in t
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by ermir 7y ago
Also a fun fact: City 17 was based on Sofia.
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by ermir 7y ago
I was just messing around with this and experimenting with the features, when a human shape slowly started coming out of my unconsciousness. At the end when I realized what was coming out, I strove to finish, and it turns out quite angelic.
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by ermir 7y ago
Yes, it's good practice for an embassy to use a VPN to their home country for 100% of incoming and outgoing traffic (at least that's how I would do it).
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by ermir 8y ago
This is the same exact reason why PHP double colon errors still include the `T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM` string somewhere in the error, as various error parsers still look for it even though the error messages have been updated to be clearer. T

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