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Post by erik »

joepie91_ wrote: post #160
erik wrote: post #26

Life Goes On! A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles. http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/ ) I thought…

The style of that very strongly reminds me of that David vs. Goliath top-down shooter game: https://icreviews.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/giving_goliath... Any connection to that, by any chance? EDIT: Hmm, HN doesn't do Markdown?

No, that one is new to me. I'll check it out.

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Post by erik »

KnightHawk3 wrote: post #192
erik wrote: post #26

Life Goes On! A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles. http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/ ) I thought…

I saw your game on reddit a long time back, I really enjoyed it! Thanks for the reminder to go pick it up (I got the mailing list updates but ignored them) Do you think you will be releasing another game under the same name?

I hope you enjoy the game!

It's really hard to say what's next. There will probably be more work to do on Life Goes On first.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by NamTaf »

y3di wrote: post #202
NamTaf wrote: post #180

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You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it. I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After…

The reason 'have it' wasn't matched is because the vowel phoneme in the word 'have' is: "AE" whereas the example in the screenshot was matching combos with successive vowels "AH - IH". So 'have' didn't match that scheme. I agree that these should match, and have been throwing around the idea of matching similar sounding phonemes together. I completely agree though, the metre/rhythm plays a huge part in a poet or rapp…

Could you hack some sort of karaoke system? I mean, it ties word display to time, so you could then use that alongisde tying time to beats (DJ tools do this already) to link the words with the beats of the song. I would expect it to be manually generated but it'd give you a data set to work with for more popular stuff?

That said, I'm not sure how fine-grained karaoke systems get - whether they just display the lyrics for a whole bar of the song and linearly interpolate between the start and end, or whether they are a bit more intelligent than that.

Just a thought!

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Post by w4 »

kennyledet wrote: post #210
w4 wrote: post #77

Auto Miles: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage... It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on…

This is very nice/useful. Good work

Thanks!

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Post by krapp »

dsschnau wrote: post #214
krapp wrote: post #6

http://i.imgur.com/rSMME2e.jpg Homework - a basic CRUD app in VB to manage reservations for a movie theatre, through a remote database connection.

Do you have a customer for this, or just making it for the heck of it?

This is a final class project (Advanced VB.) After the semester's over i'll probably rewrite it in C# (because I really am not a fan of VB) and find some use for it.

Edit: I just realized my last post made it look like the name of the app was "Homework"... no, it literally is homework :)

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Post by AustinDizzy »

oky wrote: post #112
krapp wrote: post #103

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It looks like you have an interesting take on tripcodes, although users with colorblindness issues might have some trouble differentiating.

that's a great point. here's what it looks like in BW: http://i.imgur.com/p84tu3f.png i'm wondering what a good way to work for colorblind people would be.

Replace the colors with patterns in a colorblind mode (e.g. A left striped replaces blue, a right striped replaces green, a vertical striped for red, a right horizontal stripe with dots in the brighter spaces for yellow, etc.).

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by tomek_zemla »

Renaud wrote: post #172
tomek_zemla wrote: post #104

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It's an interesting concept and intuitively it might seem desirable to fit in more text/information on the screen, but after some thought I think it would diminish user experience. The supporting arguments come from the principles of graphic design and book publishing. Digital screens are very much evolution of print. Two examples. Think of the well designed art books or hard covers. Large pages with significant area…

That view seems a bit restrictive. There are cases where having more on screen is useful and actually helps readability, in particular for technical and scientific documentation. Reading an article or a story is pretty much a linear activity: you progress onward and never have to go backward. In that case, readability is very much influenced by a page layout that reduces noise. For other types of documentation, the s…

Agreed. Context/content makes a big difference... I guess the idea is similar to having multiple panes of IDE open with different sections of the same file.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by nickfox »

My Gps Tracker is an open source project that allows you to track android, ios, windows phones and java me phones using various mapping providers such as google, bing and OpenStreetMaps. MIT licensed.

Here is the android version:

https://www.websmithing.com/images/gpstracker3.2.1.png

and the source code:

https://github.com/nickfox/GpsTracker

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