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by phaser 4mo ago
I continue to work on my city builder game Microlandia, launched here in HN ~6 months ago. I originally predicted a few dozen urbanism nerds would play it, but now almost 10,000 copies sold. I'm still a solo developer but now I collabo
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by phaser 4mo ago
Thanks I didn't know about kiwix, but, let's consider the fact that a wiki, or netflix movies are cheap or free, while AI is actually quite expensive at least for now, and i'm not sure if it's because of real costs or to
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by phaser 4mo ago
Technology doesn't always work like that. A new game is a totally new world with everything created from scratch. A creation. A model, on the other hand, is a reinterpretation machine for hundreds of years of human creations, but not a
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by phaser 4mo ago
You can run mediawiki at home but you won't have wikipedia. You can run a video server but you won't have all the movies that Netfix has. A local model is actually the real thing.
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by phaser 4mo ago
What intrigues me the most about AI progress, is not AGI or the model du jour by $AI_UNICORN, but rather what can be run locally. I remember having an amusing, but rather useless model in a beefy gaming PC that I had 6 years ago; and now,
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by phaser 4mo ago
I didn't learn anything about tulips, markets, or the tulip market in this article.
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by phaser 4mo ago
I see. I'm adding an option to "disable" a building, so you'll be able to suspend a city service due to budget constraints or any other reason.
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by phaser 4mo ago
The camera is very very close to isometric but as you've noticed, it's not an ortographic projection. During early access I decided against it but tbh I can't recall why. I'll go back to the drawing board on this one (or
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by phaser 4mo ago
I love GOG and I would publish there in a heartbeat but I never hear back from them :(
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by phaser 4mo ago
There's plans for: river map, island map, peninsula map, port zone, (with docks and containers), industrial fishing. All in different stages of development. Can't say for sure when it's gonna be live but it's locked in.
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by phaser 4mo ago
The compositions are by Pablo Rubio, a long time collaborator. Originally it's inspired in the soundtrack of Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The music is not tracker music but we made the artistic decision to use similar limitations (small nu
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by phaser 4mo ago
Up and down arrow keys will change the tilt. left right to rotate in 90 degree steps. WASD to pan. (the keys can be changed in control settings) If you're looking for a free-angle view we don't have it, the game is designed to be
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by phaser 4mo ago
That's a super cool idea. Actually we have an internal thingy to export your city to blender, then we can have nice images like this one: https://microlandia.city/assets/press/keyart/t21.jpeg Maybe we ma
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by phaser 4mo ago
I’m taking a look at that right now. Thanks for flagging this
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by phaser 4mo ago
At this moment, not so big but lately I've done some interesting technical breakthroughs that will enable large maps :D ... or at least a lot larger than SimCity 2013
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by phaser 4mo ago
I love this game so much. One of the reasons I started to make a city builder* is because I don't like where the genre is going. The focus on photorealism in modern city builders took away the apophenia, or "food for imagination&q
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I made something nobody wants in my city builder: parking lots(explodi.tubatuba.net)
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Nobody Here: The Story of Vaporwave [video](youtube.com)
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by phaser 5mo ago
This advice is sound only if you think of success as defined by SV-investor-echo-chamber standards. Too many "tales of side-projects that grew into successful businesses" can narrow your understanding of what it actually means. I
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by phaser 6mo ago
Here’s how i do it: I create a lot of stuff using AI to the max, but I also spend the necessary of time on reviewing that the AI is producing code that passes my cognitive load standards. this involves some tokens spent on grooming code and
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by phaser 7mo ago
Starlink was never about giving people untethered access to the internet.
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by phaser 7mo ago
In Chile we have an expression that reminds me why I love my home dialect so much: "Vender humo" (to sell smoke) - not quite the same as smoke and mirrors, it conveys that someone, in a spectacular way, manages to sell something t
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by phaser 7mo ago
Reminds me of the people of the future in Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” who watch large TVs where most of the space is taken by advertising. It’s amazing how this one turned morphed from humor into an eerie warning of the future in 20 years. ht
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by phaser 7mo ago
Yeah, the choice of title is indeed strange. But it does convey a personal point of view about the platform very well. Largely inscrutable? Compared to what?
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by phaser 7mo ago
Is Microsoft the really the main force drowning the internet in slop? I appreciate the discussion on the subject but why is it so specific on Microsoft and the userbase of Bing? It’s funny because I wanted to register this domain for the lu
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by phaser 8mo ago
Every time I see an idea like this (or a politician talking about tech 'sovereignty') I feel sad for the 20-year-old me who really believed in the declaration of the independence of cyberspace. > Governments of the Industrial W
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by phaser 8mo ago
yeah! I love the em-dash — they really took it away from us :(
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by phaser 8mo ago
I get that a lot. I’ve wondered why. It’s a bit sad and funny at the same time. I’m not a native english speaker which makes it even more confusing…
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by phaser 8mo ago
it was in this link included in this same story https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/
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by phaser 8mo ago
I launched an idea 75 days ago, here as Show HN. It snowballed into a little community and a game that now sells every day. Maybe not an overnight sensation but the encouragement I found in the community was the motivation that i needed to

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