mcteamster
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Comment · 1 month ago
Committed to the bit; context aliased “change plans” to “pylons” and I have a command to /construct them
Comment · 1 month ago
I love this. Funnily enough StarCraft has influenced how I approach AI at a meta level
Protoss: powerful and expensive frontier coding agents you directly micromanage for the toughest tasks
Terran: versatile team comps of dedicated agent roles you can delegate well-defined tasks to
Zerg: massive swarms of specialist custom agents inside your apps that you evolve and optimise for speed and cost
Knowing every faction has its strengths and weaknesses helps me decide which tools to use for the job.
Comment · 2 months ago
Had this same pathway into programming and game development too, thanks to having tons of spare time with a computer that had only ms office and no internet
My last PowerPoint game pushes the limits of what you can do to implement memory mechanically using animation triggers:
Comment · 5 months ago
“Made by Claude”
Comment · 8 months ago
Awesome, I've submitted a game I made last year (https://blankwhite.cards) which was itself a remake of a game I made in 2019.
In my experience it took 5 years to find the time and motivation to build a v2.0 by hand. AI has since accelerated the production process to help me ship features that would otherwise have taken me another few years to even consider doing.
Comment · 8 months ago
The difference between $0.00 and $0.01 is infinite.
But I’m really curious how bad the free experience would have to become before people are open to paying a pittance?
Comment · 1 year ago
Been doing something similar with save files for my game. Line 1 is "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script>const rawData =" and line 2 is all the state.
Then the save button downloads document.documentElement.outerHTML with line 2 replaced by the current state. No server required.
https://github.com/mcteamster/white/blob/main/src/lib/data.t...
Comment · 1 year ago
Depending on how "approximate" is acceptable, I've found that using timezone names can be a good proxy for location. As most users have their timezones set correctly it's more consistent and private than IP or GPS.
I've made a library for my own use cases that does this (https://github.com/mcteamster/virgo), but it's also pretty straightforward to parse the city/state name out of the timezone and look it up somewhere.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks! Great question - the heatmaps and traces really help with refining gameplay UX like identifying dead click areas and reducing the number of interactions for popular functions.
Of course any client-side RUM can only give partial insights. Always open to hearing any direct feedback suggestions or improvements.
Comment · 1 year ago
Love it, especially your latest post on bringing back fun websites. Bought a block on ‘Stack your project’!