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Destructible Tetris blocks: https://unit520.net/deadtrees/ Silly physics fun in the browser, but not a complete game (yet).

Some sort of systemic corruption in corporate culture must have emerged at least around the time when Personell was renamed to "Human Resources". I mean, think about it for a secon…

Hello HN! Here is a little game I made, colorful tiles must be placed next to other tiles and match in symbol or color. This game is inspired by Passage 3 and similar games like Qw…

This is actually written in C++ and I compile it to a native executable during development, and yet it crawls to a stop exactly the same, so I'm afraid that that one's on me. :D (I…

Thank you all for your nice comments and suggestions, be assured that I read every comment even if I didn't reply to you personally! I'm glad you liked it and will continue to work…

Thanks for reporting! Yeah, I'm aware of this error, it seems to be related to the shared hosting I'm using, I can't replicate it when serving locally. But as long as it is "fallin…

Thanks for the feedback, using the phone's accelerometer is actually a great idea! As others mentioned, there are web APIs for that these days, I'll try to include something like t…

Hello HN! You can read this [1] blog post if you want to know more about some ideas that I have for this thing. This is just an experiment right now, there isn't any real game (yet…

That's exactly the stack I use as well: C++, OpenGL and Dear Imgui compiled via Emscripten. You can take a look at Hexmap [0] which is built this way. All in all the performance is…

Hello HN! This web app is a different take on the typical hex editor/viewer tool. Using this graymap visualization you can easily get a quick overview over binary data and spot int…

Very cool hack indeed! One thing I learned from this is that having an HDMI port gives you a free I2C port on top as well, as long as you have an old HDMI cable lying around to cut…

Reading this article motivated me to take a closer look at printf/iostreams alternatives, and I have to say, the mentioned {fmt} library finally made me switch, so thanks for that!…

WebAssembly has no access to the outside world at the moment, that is correct. It is only able to call (and be called by) JS. A C++ application compiled via Emscripten ships (a fai…

He most likely just didn't pay enough close attention or thought about it I guess. And I agree that MS set themselves up for success with this type of scenery, it is fascinating ho…

Slightly off-topic, but still anecdotal how far CGI has come, I recently showed my dad who hasn't played any video games for at least 20 years this [0] video of the current MS Flig…

Outrageous, this can't be! But seriously, it is saddening sometimes to see so much mindshare and engagement wasted on poorly thought out "solutions" to whatever issue is currently …

Upcoming versions of Google Docs will use canvas based rendering [0], and I presume their custom renderer might be compiled to WebAssembly. WASM and Canvas (potentially using WebGL…