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by mminer 11y ago
Thanks for the link, that was an interesting read. As far as procedural level generation goes, one of my favourite articles on the topic is this one about Spelunky's level generation: http://tinysubversions.com/spelunky
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by mminer 11y ago
Do you happen to have any particular recommendations for ASCII painting tools? I took a web-based one called ASCII Paint [1] for a spin and first impressions were positive. [1] http://www.asciipaint.com
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by mminer 11y ago
I definitely believe it. It's inspiring to read about the techniques and hacks used at the dawn of game development, so many of which are still useful today. Re: ASCII painting, recently I was looking into using an ASCII drawing tool l
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Level Editing Off the Beaten Path(matthewminer.com)
13 points by mminer 11y ago|8 comments
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A Practical Example of Using Python Partials(matthewminer.com)
11 points by mminer 12y ago|0 comments
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A Pattern for Async Task Queue Results(matthewminer.com)
2 points by mminer 12y ago|0 comments
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Docker Dev Environment for Web App(matthewminer.com)
1 points by mminer 12y ago|0 comments
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by mminer 12y ago
Right, I see what you're saying, its magazine-style collections prevent you from building a dedicated following of your own. Very good point.
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by mminer 12y ago
I was afraid that the opposite would happen, that hosting on a custom domain gives up traffic that a network like Medium provides. But then, I'm not actually sure how much traffic this is, or if it's only helpful for authors that
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by mminer 12y ago
Thanks for the link, Prose looks like it might be the perfect bridge between ease of editing and the control and flexibility that GitHub Pages provides. I'll give it a try.
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by mminer 12y ago
Regarding editing (and I think you make a good point that ease of editing is important), I often find myself frustrated with WYSIWYG editors that make such a mess of the markup that you end up modifying the raw code anyway. Ghost and GitH
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Ask HN: Best place for tech blog?
5 points by mminer 12y ago|11 comments
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Unreal Engine 4.1(unrealengine.com)
3 points by mminer 12y ago|0 comments
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Cocos2d-x v3.0 and Coordinate Release(cocos2d-x.org)
1 points by mminer 12y ago|0 comments
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by mminer 13y ago
To expand on this, the free version is very capable and doesn't restrict the ability to publish your game. If you're an independent developer it's unlikely that you'll find yourself constrained.
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by mminer 13y ago
I imagine the day will come when version control is possible and trivial to take advantage of for all types of documents, not just source code. Systems like git have become so ingrained in my workflow that I forget that there's no comp
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by mminer 14y ago
Like other posters here, I spent many, many days playing Escape Velocity: Nova. It was the game that made me want to build my own games and inspired me to learn to program. At the time, multiplayer capability was one of the most oft-request
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by mminer 14y ago
Their Python container, which became available last August, has yet to be updated to support version 2.7 (released 2010) or 3.x. This may not be indicative of how often they'll update the node.js container, but their effort to keep up with
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by mminer 14y ago
Adding a headphone jack to the remote is a smart idea. When watching movies late at night I string a long audio extension cable between my headphones and the DVD player, but this solution is much more elegant. It's one of those "of course!"
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by mminer 14y ago
One of the developers (Wolfire's David) is building his game using the Unity game engine, which exports to Linux but only runs on OS X and Windows. Other engines / development environments like Unreal and Flash are similarly unavailable on
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by mminer 14y ago
This looks like a fantastic service for game developers (indeed, one of their examples is multiplayer Tetris). Building backend infrastructure to facilitate realtime communication and features like leaderboards, and making them scale when t
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by mminer 14y ago
What do you make of a service like Siri that imposes a personality on the UI without disrupting its usability? Anecdotally, many people like communicating with such an interface that simulates human conversation, even if the results themsel
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by mminer 14y ago
The article doesn't confirm that Amazon is actually planning to sell used ebooks, only that they were awarded a patent to do so. I hope that they do facilitate this someday — the lack of resale value with digital goods is concerning — but h
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by mminer 14y ago
But do you wear a shitty t-shirt after you receive it? Part of a company's motivation for giving out t-shirts is cheap publicity — people literally walk around with that company's logo on their chest. They're unlikely to do that though if t
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by mminer 14y ago
Educational value aside, a degree makes it easier to work abroad. As a Canadian I may want to work in Silicon Valley and I might get hired based on experience alone, but the US government is less willing to issue visas to those without a de
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by mminer 14y ago
Perhaps one reason is that more hosting providers support MySQL but not PostgreSQL. Amazon AWS, Google Cloud SQL, and numerous others offer hosted MySQL solutions but not PostgreSQL. I'm unsure how much overall usage such service providers
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by mminer 14y ago
I predict that a film's frame rate will become simply another choice for the cinematographer to make. Just like different film stocks and processing techniques are employed for different genres (e.g. bleach bypass in war movies), perhaps th
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by mminer 14y ago
It's a niche use case, but Apple's Qmaster software facilitates distributed video rendering and exporting for Final Cut Pro and some of their other pro applications. A server cluster like this would probably be overkill, but when you're wor
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by mminer 14y ago
Agreed. The ability to edit files from the browser made fixing website typos on-the-go trivial, and this gives even more power to developers whose current machine limits terminal access (Prompt on the iPad + a remote server works wonders, b
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by mminer 14y ago
The shorter employment cycles also provide an opportunity to try different "styles" of company to see what you like best. Throughout university I've been employed in government, at a multinational corporation, at a startup of nine employees

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