dyarosla

Joined 13 years ago

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I work on making learn to code games for kids, including LightBot and SpriteBox
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Comment · 4 days ago
Agree except for the Vision Pro- they messed up the hardware but the software was very refined.

Truly unclear what the usecases of each of these new products is however.

Comment · 5 days ago
I wholeheartedly agree. People should really continue writing in their own voice, at least at a time when you can still feel the difference.

The following sentences have ai-slop cadence

“The first render gave me something to react to.”

“Some requests were tiny[…] Others changed how a whole scene worked.”

Comment · 15 days ago
With this project really just let the agent do its thing. I had some very minor scaffolding to ask that it write english specs out but otherwise i havent really been on top of that.

I chose the “tech stack” but it wasnt much in the way of direction: plain js and webgl, cause i planned to have that be wrapped for ios and android after

Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 24 days ago
Thanks for the feedback! Maybe I should add another touch animation like the one that teaches you about the levels menu chevron. Or just add some light glows every so often
Comment · 24 days ago
Thanks! It took a lot of tuning!
Comment · 24 days ago
I think it's still to be seen in the long run but so far two main ones come to mind

- Adding a mascot(s) helped immensely for creating an identity / making it not another puzzler

- Tuning the puzzle generation constraints: how frequent 2-,3-,4-,5- size pieces are, how many shared colors, how colored markers are laid out relative to one another in the board, all helped tune the puzzles from not being outlandishly difficult or mundanely boring.

Comment · 24 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
The visuals and sliders are great!

Maybe consider clipping the ball properly on the edges of the sides of the view frustum ?

Similarly the near and far could also be clipped; i know this is not true of the math necessarily but is the expected result in 3d graphics applications.

Comment · 1 month ago
A first gen product like this is for early adopters and wealthy individuals who status seek
Comment · 2 months ago
Not sure why you see it as such;

Incompetent and dishonest are characteristics that follow from this professional work, adequately describing an individual who continues to make poor predictions, analyses and false statements refuted by past events.

Far from “shitting on” Zitron

Comment · 2 months ago
> What he has never had is pedagogical knowledge: an understanding of how people learn

As anyone who’s met Sal will attest, this characterization is incredibly off the mark.

The author extrapolated from the product as opposed to understanding the person and how the product came to be the way it is.

Comment · 2 months ago
You’re right of course, I was more responding to the very matter-of-fact “only known” phrasing.

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