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by nddrylliog 13y ago
If you have a ton of embedded if/else statements you're doing it wrong. Only one if/else is required. Thanks for giving me a course about game design and asking questions obviously not answered in Chapter 1. Where can I send you money? &#60
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Marry me! I mean, join the team! But seriously, Chapter 2 is all about deconstructing the game. It's easy at first.. but then it gets harder. Erasing your traces... reverse-engineering protocols.. introducing you to netsec against your will
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796039 You're not in a prison. Much in the story is left to your imagination, but I can tell you this: you are very much a "free" agent in this universe. However, your value is constantly under t
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
You're probably at the beginning of the game, and you probably need to put your answer within single quotes (e.g. answer 'yes'). Not much error checking yet..
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
No sound version: http://thechoice.amos.me/?nosound
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
The @xzoor and @door similarity is a fair point - although @xzoor has a kind of emotional sensibility to me, I don't know if could change it. @portal would work for the door, though ;) Non-human names are kinda voluntary. It's a hostile uni
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Oh. See that's another game design decision. Nothing prevents you from typing: unlock @door, <action to get the key> But when doing user testing, lots of non-coders got stuck at this point. It's clearer to them when things ha
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5795893 for context - window.open gets called on 'open'. If any HNers have ideas for restricting what gets called, I'm all ears. Source is on GitHub, at https://github.com
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
<3
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Hey, if you know CoffeeScript and feel confident, everything is fair game. The game is supposed to be accessible to non-coders as well, hence all the hand-holding. If you feel frustrated because the first chapter is too simple, you're gonna
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
See, that's a very interesting "bug" that was reported to me before. Here's a little behind the scenes: your answers are actually CoffeeScript that get compiled on the client (along with some support code for each question) and eval'ed. Sin
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Yup, would've added more analytics if I had the time - consider this a first foray into the world of "let's teach people stuff without them being even aware of it because they're caught in the story". Hopefully! This is an experiment. Expec
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Hey, have the source while you're at it - http://github.com/nddrylliog/thechoice You only get to experience it once though - once you spoil it for yourself, it's spoiled. Choose carefully.
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
C'mon, don't give up! There are hints.. :)
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by nddrylliog 13y ago
Hi! The Choice dev here - this is Episode 1, there'll be more to come. Tell me how you like it, how you felt doing it, what was hard, what was easy, what was fun, what was annoying, everything! Episode 2 may come out in June if I find enoug
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Show HN: The Choice – An online programming puzzle RPG(thechoice.amos.me)
95 points by nddrylliog 13y ago|111 comments
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The XBone and the cloud(amos.me)
1 points by nddrylliog 13y ago|0 comments
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An ooc quine(amos.me)
2 points by nddrylliog 13y ago|0 comments
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Agreed. Google is really contacting anyone these days. It's probably obvious that I'm not a good fit there and I still got an e-mail. Most of my friends have, too, so I don't consider it exclusive at all. It was still a good occasion to wri
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Hey there, thanks for what has to be the most insightful and constructive comment of the thread! I agree with what you're saying. To me, all this is part of a bigger issue which is the "mass culture". That society is only comfortable with h
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Thanks a lot! It's not my first HN shower, but I'm still having a hard time not caring about negative comments. I'll definitely keep blogging whatever happens. Thanks again for the support.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
You're right, that part was definitely excessive/simplistic. There are probably hundreds of small start-ups trying to 'fix' mainstream video distribution right now. The point is, their scale is ridiculous compared to the ones I've listed. F
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Reading the thread before commenting is a good idea - you're not adding anything new to the conversation. I didn't submit the post to HN, nor did I choose the headline (which I disagree with). I'm aware the recruiter in question can't chang
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Granted, there's very little chance that the recruiter herself will find interest in the whole post. Hence the blog post. As others have pointed out, recruiters are trained to skip down to the call for action, so the fact that 85% of it is
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
I didn't submit it, nor would I have liked it to - but it's a bit too late to stop. I posted it on my blog for my circle of friends/followers, because I was interested in feedback on my view of the general evolution of the internet. This is
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Thanks for the good laugh! I ought to try that. Re your other comments: for someone busy working 100%, how did you get time to create an account specifically to answer to this thread? http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nixygirl Also,
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Yup. I'm personally a lot more excited about tent.io, but there's already so much irrelevant to a recruiter here that I didn't care to mention it.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Entirely agree. Big company acqui(hi)ring smaller start-ups is a different problem than increasing centralization. Both equally worrying imho, though.
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Author here: I know HR won't read it, and even most people on HN won't. It's totally up to you just how much time you invest into reading others' visions. In that post, I address much more than just "to work at G or not". I address the gene
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by nddrylliog 14y ago
Exactly the same stack as movies.io :)

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