mattround

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by mattround 3y ago
There's a very bad canvas bug in Android Chrome on some devices that's making the original show through - you're supposed to be painting on white (been looking for a workaround & it's fixed in Chrome Canary)
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by mattround 3y ago
There's a bug in Android Chrome with certain devices that thoroughly breaks some canvas operations, you're not supposed to be painting over the original. Been looking for workarounds but so far only managed to make it glitch in di
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by mattround 3y ago
I'm guessing you have an add-on that alters page colours, eg to force dark mode..?
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by mattround 3y ago
"Party game realm" is a great compliment!
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by mattround 3y ago
No, I'm not aware of anyone building their career on my tool.
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by mattround 3y ago
It's just simple HTML/CSS/JS and canvas manipulation; scoring is done using 'difference' compositing & checking pixel RGB values, and brushes are built up from bog-standard canvas strokes.
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by mattround 3y ago
All client-side; would've been nice to store & play back the drawing process, but that would've been a lot of extra work and created a whole load more UI/design/clutter problems to solve (it was very much a keep-it-s
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by mattround 3y ago
Would've been nice to do that (& maybe play back the drawing process), but I was keen to keep the project small & get it launched (took 2.75 days in total, I tweeted the dev process).
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by mattround 3y ago
(So yes, you can rack up points from simple blocks of colour up to a point, but need to get the shapes right to go higher)
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by mattround 3y ago
I made this game; in case anyone's wondering how the scoring works: It draws your version over the original with 'difference' compositing, then downscales the result (using 'medium' quality to avoid most pixels gett
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Show HN: DayBrix, a daily falling-blocks webgame(vole.wtf)
2 points by mattround 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Penguin Jenga game using Planck.js and simple DOM rendering(vole.wtf)
1 points by mattround 4y ago|0 comments
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I turned Upworthy's A/B test data into a clickbait quiz(vole.wtf)
1 points by mattround 5y ago|0 comments
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Augmented reality crisp (potato chip) sandwich(vole.wtf)
3 points by mattround 5y ago|1 comments
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by mattround 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't cover that, I can imagine it'd be tricky to include without adding tens of bytes (10-20 bytes could be freed up by using slightly hackier function calls to/from the display, so perha
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by mattround 6y ago
I was a bit lax using 'moves', it's 4 ply, so that's 2 full moves.
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by mattround 6y ago
Original engine's here (only looks ahead 3 steps instead of 4) https://nanochess.org/archive/tiny_chess_2.html
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by mattround 6y ago
This is the same engine but doesn't look quite as far ahead https://nanochess.org/archive/tiny_chess_2.html
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by mattround 6y ago
I added it out of desperation after around 100 people on reddit claimed the black pawns are "cheating".
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by mattround 6y ago
It looks 4 steps ahead with a points system for pieces & positions, but has no sense of broader strategy. (The original code looked ahead 3 moves, but browsers & devices have improved a lot in the last 11 years)
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The Kilobyte’s Gambit, 1k chess engine with Queen’s Gambit pixel art(vole.wtf)
6 points by mattround 6y ago|1 comments
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by mattround 6y ago
You might also enjoy Goth or Moth? https://vole.wtf/goth-or-moth/
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by mattround 6y ago
Hi, I made the quiz and tried to design it to make judging by appearance work as poorly as possible, so the initial daft premise then becomes something a little bit more interesting as you get some wrong. But I think it's reasonable to
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by mattround 6y ago
Those saying you're taking this too seriously are wrong - the project is a joke, but the issues you highlight aren't. I made the font, and if it was a serious attempt at a moderation tool or trying to comprehensively cover 'b