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Thanks! It has been amazing. I had no intention of signing with a publisher initially but when my demo blew up a lot of cool publishers started reaching out. In retrospect I'm real…

Thank you! It's funny because I really wanted to introduce more things like that, but the very simple things I've added so far have received a bit of pushback ("I want to play a fa…

Thank you! The demo is very old by now and the full game is almost a complete rewrite, but I hope people will like it. It's my publisher (Hooded Horse) handling it so not sure abou…

The final stretch of getting my game ready for release next week: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2764460/Sandustry/ It's an automation game and factory builder with "falling sa…

I used to run a small MMORPG. I only had to ban a player once but when I did they made it their life's mission to get around it and spam profanities. They went through every proxy …

CrossCode is a marvel in that they had to build their own runtime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155807 I think the most famous Electron game is Vampire Suvivors, but it h…

What Discord server are you referring to? Would love to join.

Actually even higher level than that: it's all JavaScript, but it relies heavily on multithreading (see the linked Noita talk, which uses the same model). But basically: The world …

Yes, that talk has been instrumental for my game. Highly recommended!

Awesome. I wasn't planning on signing with a publisher but now I'm really happy that I did.

As a fan of both Neal and R74n this was an unexpected collaboration! I can highly recommend building your own falling sand simulator. It's really fun to see how such simple rules c…

Beautiful blog post! I've built something similar and have yet to find a compelling use case for it. In my mind it seemed like such an obvious idea that I thought I'd start using i…

I built a multiplayer chatroom where all messages are transformed by an LLM (e.g. into pirate speak or corporate jargon): https://impersona.chat/ I also built this incremental clic…

Impersona is a chatroom where all messages are thematically transformed using AI. For example, you can chat as a pirate or Shakespeare, and no matter what you type the theme is enf…

This seems really cool and I'm excited to play around with it once it's up and running properly again. These type of things are my favorite applications of LLMs. A while back I mad…

Thanks for reporting! May I ask what browser and system you are on? When going underground it starts raycasting shadows, which is heavier on the GPU, but the difference shouldn't b…

Working on my game Sandustry, a mining and automation sandbox with pixel-based physics (think Noita meets Factorio). I released the first playtest of the alpha a few days ago, whic…

Great article and very relevant for me since I'm building a game in JavaScript based on "falling sand" physics, which is all about simulating massive amount of particles (think Noi…

The author is also working on a really impressive voxel physics engine: https://youtu.be/3259aycYcek

Yes, this is a really good article that I can highly recommend if you're interested in these type of "falling sand" simulations. A big difference between a classic powder toy game …

Thank you! If you haven't played Noita it's basically a "falling sand" or powder physics game where every pixel is simulated. You need a special cellular automata that is not your …

I'm building a JavaScript game in my own engine, which in retrospect was a big mistake considering the game utilizes a lot of multithreading (the game is "Noita meets Factorio" so …

Sorry about that! I realized too late that the game is really badly optimized once you hit higher levels and start getting chain reactions. Turning off Effects helps for some thing…

Try pressing the wizard. I should probably make it clearer on mobile and highlight it once you can afford your first cat.