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Pretty interesting service! I'm always surprised that human experts can challenge algorithms in setting up travel itineraries. I wonder how much time an average expert spends putti…

Thanks for sharing! It's really fascinating for me to learn more about the psychology behind playing games. Much like traditional art, it's all about evoking the desired emotion fr…

Currently it is desktop browser only. If there's enough traction and the concept is proven, we plan to look into porting it to iOS / Android / etc. We'll see!

thanks! the toolset is extremely bare-bones right now, somewhat in the spirit of "launch and iterate". we're trying to gauge what percentage of the population is interested in stag…

the client-side javascript is written from scratch -- so if there's any wonkiness with the physics (especially with the moving crates), it's my own fault. it probably would have be…

this is my first time posting to hacker news, so sorry if i made any faux pas. i've done html and css before, but i started learning javascript/node.js a few months ago. my backgro…

wow, that's going in my bookmarks. video game research -- every day i learn something new.

hah, yeah, the physics was a lot of back and forth for us. we tried to match the original super mario bros. physics, but clearly we're still missing the mark. the plan is to update…

thanks! yeah, a more interactive front page is in the works -- we're hoping to let the player jump into the game with minimal fuss. stay tuned!