liambigelow

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   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Thanks! And thanks for the great feedback — the tutorial is indeed long, but that just means more (fun) iteration to go! > Why did my opponent place qxa to begin with? Much like us, the NPC can be plagued with a simply terrible hand ;) A
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   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Thanks! I can't say I disagree — we hoped to structure the tutorial as a sequence of rules, but the explanations tend to grow. A concise reference would indeed be good. > This desperately needs a attack result preview Not too hard,
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   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Our current base list is the intersection of Wordnik's games wordlist and the SCOWL spellchecker — words in both are a definite yes, and SCOWL's capitalization helps us filter out acronyms and proper nouns. We have done some manua
4. 34.▲
   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Interesting! This might be our Scrabble bias showing through. Yes, when we say "word" I suppose we're meaning "something that a player has claimed to be a word" by placing contiguous tiles. I'll look at somewhe
5. 35.▲
   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Thanks for the examples, I'll note them. We did intentionally scale back from the classic wordgame dictionaries (looking at you, Scrabble) due to an overabundance of archaic words that the NPC can play against you — but it does push us
6. 36.▲
   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Thanks! Great notes
7. 37.▲
   by liambigelow 3y ago

   In battles, weak words compromise all of their letters. "TOUR" would be safe, but the "FT" ruins the "T" by making it part of an invalid word — and an invalid word that loses is removed in its entirety. Thanks
8. 38.▲
   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Thank you! Yes, for the puzzles we would up having to constrain the board to a size that wasn't too egregious when sharing emojis... The classic single player has a bit more room to breathe :) (Thanks for pointing out the font — I do h
9. 39.▲
   by liambigelow 3y ago

   Darn. I do believe lockdown mode fully disables WebAssembly, so that makes sense. I don't think there are any significant roadblocks to packaging the game as a native app, so that might be a good push to do so.
10. 40.▲
    by liambigelow 3y ago

    aha they totally are, that's more than a nitpick! Will fix, thanks for pointing that out.
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    by liambigelow 3y ago

    Forgot to mention — it's fully open source at https://github.com/TruncateGame/Truncate for anyone who likes poking their digital nose around :)
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    Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game(truncate.town)

    188 points by liambigelow 3y ago|117 comments
13. 43.▲
    by liambigelow 4y ago

    I wrote out an explainer recently on HN answering exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32172290
14. 44.▲
    by liambigelow 4y ago

    That is, in essence, what Pagefind is doing under the hood — but Pagefind also addresses the other reply in that it can combine these results when you search multiple words (among many other search benefits)
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    by liambigelow 4y ago

    Oh hey, this is my project. What sort of comparison are you looking for? I can maybe shed some light. The giant difference between the two is that Algolia is a hosted search platform, so there exists a server that you send an API request to
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    CloudCannon Adds Support for Hugo Static Site Generator(scoop.co.nz)

    6 points by liambigelow 6y ago|0 comments