homegamesjoseph

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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   That is so cool, thank you for giving it a shot!
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   I will take a look and publish a fix, thanks for checking it out!
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   Hey good catch, I will put up links to docs outside of the studio. The studio now has some samples for game node types, eg. shapes, text or assets as well as an llm-focused game guide you can dump into Claude or whatever to have it make gam
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   For sure it doesn’t utilize any network stuff now, but it would be super easy to add a couple more Willies in there. But definitely considering adding an optional client side only thing for single player games
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   Sure thing! Basically started making simple rendering tests over a websocket and then added images, font and audio support. The initial idea was to make jackbox style games people could host on their computers and play on their phones in th
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   Even a similar name! That’s awesome.
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   Thank you! I don’t have any super fleshed out games with progression yet. I have some ideas but the most thorough game at this point is vegas trail. The balancing is busted in that at the moment. Will definitely fix that and make more games
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   Sorry about that, looks like the traffic spike from HN overwhelmed my session management stuff. It will only get better!
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   by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

   Thanks for the feedback! Local games weren't something I really considered until recently, but it would definitely be cool
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    by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

    I forgot to mention this in the post, but the games themselves run on the server. This gives every game multiplayer for free out of the box, and clients just read the server state and send back input. The idea is that you could use a browse
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    by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Need a good way to clean up the UI to distinguish between joining someone's multiplayer session or creating your own
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    by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

    Thank you! Obviously still some gaps to close but would love for this to carry on the spirit of newgrounds and stuff like that.
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    by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

    Thanks! I'm planning on making a lot more. I made most of this stuff before AI tools were available. But now Claude can one shot really impressive stuff, it's amazing
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    by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

    One thing I forgot to mention is all of these games run server side and thin clients just render and send input back to the server. So a game session needs to exist for the back and forth communication to work. Theoretically you could do th
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    by homegamesjoseph 3mo ago

    Nice! I actually didn’t know the rendering stuff could support anything pseudo-3D like that until yesterday.
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    Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years(homegames.io)

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