soylentgraham
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20 years coding professionally from PS2,Gamecube,XBox to comptuer vision to VR to AR and everything in between.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, I've made the same!
I made a very flexible turn-based framework - write the game logic on server in javascript, then state+options are given to clients, so platforms (swiftui, web, unity, webxr etc) "just" have to implement UI on top (Also means I have a default/debug view, which works for all games).
The games can run offline (via javascriptcore on ios, natively on web etc) and supports bots for all games (they randomly choose options on their turn) which has a very simple opening to get some reinforcement learning in.
Then specifically I was making an app which let me customise rules for poker - extra streets, antes, throwaway cards, passing cards, multiple boards, multiple decks, etc to support as many variants as possible, and ideally, stumble across new ones.
As an aside, I posted to reddit for research of other home variants people play (Basically to stumble across more fun variants in our home games) there's a few good alternatives I've not heard of in here!
https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comments/1i91mnz/what_are_you...
I've run out of steam a little bit (burnt out & seeking work isn't great for own projects), but has been an excuse to learn swiftui. I'd be tempted to team up with people to keep the project alive...
Comment · 3 years ago
We did this (as a side effect) for the premier league ~2009-2012 (liquidated JUST before VR appeared, where the content worked fantastically, and then ~2014 with the moverio glasses, even better in AR)
We did live player tracking (~33 cameras) on-site at every game, and for fun rendered players fifa-style free-camera. We even did some renders (capture of realtime engine) for canal+ highlights as an experiment.
edit: my own gpgpu-only,(frag shaders :), sub-100ms, uncalibrated-cameras (footage directly from sky/match of the day) r&d a few years later, also works really well on a LookingGlass https://twitter.com/HoloSports/status/1327375694884646913 (I took this to sky sports but they said it was a bit too in-the-future)
Comment · 3 years ago
I came up with a poker-wordle-ish game idea, and that was higher/lower.
You enter a hand, and it told you if your hand was higher or lower.
Maybe a bit basic though, adding a texas holdem flop-river reveal could have made it more interesting
Comment · 4 years ago
I made one specifically for viewing & editing json. Has draggable reordering with rough rules, auto-editable-values, copes with live updates whilst user is using it and other bits and bobs. Maybe along the lines of what youre looking for?
https://github.com/NewChromantics/WebComponent_TreeView
Comment · 4 years ago
Large blocks of data.
(Eg 10,000 floats)
Otherwise personally json wins
Comment · 4 years ago
Have you stepped through protobuf processing code? There's a lot of special cases, ifs, branches here and there. Protobufs within protobufs. Its not like its a size, then 100 floats packed together, theres more overhead than youd think. (Not to mention the client side allocations etc etc)
I use protoc compiled to wasm for protobufs and it is fast, but theres a lot of wasm overhead to execute that code.
Json parsing is also a lot of special cases, error testing, but the v8 team has spent a huge amount of time optimising json parsing (theres a few blog posts on it). Im not assuming either way, but it's definitely as cut and dry as one would assume.
Comment · 4 years ago
What is a "founder" these days in this context?. The term seems to not mean someone founding a company, but i guess not a vc? Not an angel, ceo... someone with experience building a business?
Comment · 4 years ago
Wonder why this was built on v8 and not chakra
Comment · 4 years ago
I am appalled at the code I wrote when I was 8 years into the proffesion.
I would also be wary of any code I wrote after 16 years (though some I do... the very pure no dependency stuff!)
In 2 years that'll be 3x8 years and I hope to pass the audition.
Comment · 4 years ago
But it is the same tech
Comment · 4 years ago
You do, just learn xcode instead of learning appcode. Get used to instruments, debugger, etc
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, nobody should be using UIbuilder and storyboards any more. swiftui is so much better, faster, usable, extensible.
But wow, the hoops you jump through to use it with c++ - via obj-c (And iirc can't use .mm files either). Im sure I wasn't helping things by exposing that to javascript too :)
Comment · 4 years ago
There are lots of other examples too; see the awful red dwarf US pilot with jane leeves as holly
Comment · 4 years ago
It's all about discovery.
You like XYZ pizza; how many places did you try before finding them? How did you find XYZ pizza?
Thats where these gatekeepers thrive.
Its the same as yahoo/altavista/google.
Comment · 4 years ago
Phones could be fine if 95% of the screen wasn't covered in popups, adverts, mailing list & cookie prompts.