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There's a very bad canvas bug in Android Chrome on some devices that's making the original show through - you're supposed to be painting on white (been looking for a workaround & i…

There's a bug in Android Chrome with certain devices that thoroughly breaks some canvas operations, you're not supposed to be painting over the original. Been looking for workaroun…

I'm guessing you have an add-on that alters page colours, eg to force dark mode..?

"Party game realm" is a great compliment!

No, I'm not aware of anyone building their career on my tool.

It's just simple HTML/CSS/JS and canvas manipulation; scoring is done using 'difference' compositing & checking pixel RGB values, and brushes are built up from bog-standard canvas …

All client-side; would've been nice to store & play back the drawing process, but that would've been a lot of extra work and created a whole load more UI/design/clutter problems to…

Would've been nice to do that (& maybe play back the drawing process), but I was keen to keep the project small & get it launched (took 2.75 days in total, I tweeted the dev proces…

(So yes, you can rack up points from simple blocks of colour up to a point, but need to get the shapes right to go higher)

I made this game; in case anyone's wondering how the scoring works: It draws your version over the original with 'difference' compositing, then downscales the result (using 'medium…

I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't cover that, I can imagine it'd be tricky to include without adding tens of bytes (10-20 bytes could be freed up by using slightly hackier func…

I was a bit lax using 'moves', it's 4 ply, so that's 2 full moves.

Original engine's here (only looks ahead 3 steps instead of 4) https://nanochess.org/archive/tiny_chess_2.html

This is the same engine but doesn't look quite as far ahead https://nanochess.org/archive/tiny_chess_2.html

I added it out of desperation after around 100 people on reddit claimed the black pawns are "cheating".

It looks 4 steps ahead with a points system for pieces & positions, but has no sense of broader strategy. (The original code looked ahead 3 moves, but browsers & devices have impro…

You might also enjoy Goth or Moth? https://vole.wtf/goth-or-moth/

Hi, I made the quiz and tried to design it to make judging by appearance work as poorly as possible, so the initial daft premise then becomes something a little bit more interestin…