Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

It's something I've been thinking about for years, but kept avoiding because I knew it'd be a huge commitment and I figured surely someone else would do it eventually. But I decided to finally tackle it and learn some new skills. 40k has literally 1000s of special rules across all the armies, so it's been fun designing a highly modifiable architecture.

It's a PHP application running in Symfony. All the CMS heavy lifting is done in the Bundle, and a minimal amount happens in the actual application side. I have worked hard on what is there, and still have a ton of work to go. Always could use the help.

A programming language for teenagers to learn to code by making multiplayer games. I've spent 3 years making the multiplayer completely automatic so you can just code it like a singleplayer game, then flick a switch and it just works. My hope is that teenagers will find it more engaging if they can play their games with their friends. A bit like a combination of Roblox and Scratch.

Currently trying to implement some region affinity so it doesn't just put everyone in the world in the same game. It's rollback netcode so the latency is very good even across continents, but it can't overcome the fact that the world is just too large.