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Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by m463 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 6:55 AM UTC

Back in my day, all we had was a pixel.

(seriously, very fun!)

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by tribby » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 6:58 AM UTC

this is a great abuse of GSUB tables

just van rossum’s rubik’s cube is another recent example of font layout gone too far: https://twitter.com/justvanrossum/status/1340960087750402048...

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by lifthrasiir » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:11 AM UTC

I'm in shock and awe. I knew GSUB can computationally do such things, but didn't know there is no defined maximum substitution limit even in practice and it is only limited by the table size. Amazing!

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by paraknight » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:15 AM UTC

Is it just me or is the game unwinnable?

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:15 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by MadMatt13 » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:18 AM UTC

Amazing project! Had fun in the web version, although I didn't manage to make the game font work on any of my available text editors on Mac. (I tried in Pages, TextEdit, Sketch, and I broke Sublime trying to use the font in there).

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by MaXtreeM » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:26 AM UTC

mmulet wrote: post #8

wheybags wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Just played through fontemon now (I think, the final battle is unbeatable right? I think I tried every move combo). Had a bit of trouble getting it to work in system programs, but on your site it worked just fine (in libreoffice it would just repeat the intro if I changed the font size, and gimp would shift things up and down depending on the highest pixel in the frame). Overall, awesome stuff :D Ever since I…

Maybe my in game hints were too subtle. You can beat it, but spoilers You have to keep going past the ending (GameOver) keep typing. You'll revive and beat the boss.

I beat it but at the end it said that I got the "bad ending". Is there really a good ending?

Amazing project BTW, had a lot of fun!

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by schoen » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:37 AM UTC

paraknight wrote: post #14

Is it just me or is the game unwinnable?

After you ybfr gb gur svany obff, lbh'er fhccbfrq gb xrrc glcvat naq gura lbh "jva" naq trg n uvag sbe fbzrguvat qvssrerag gb qb ng gur ortvaavat.

(However, I haven't figured out exactly what to do after that!)

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by Benjamin_Dobell » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:45 AM UTC

> you have chosen... unwisely. This is the worst one.

Not only is this a brilliantly hilarious piece of tech, the humour in the game ain't bad either.

Great job!

Re: Show HN: Video Game in a Font

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Post by barosl » Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:49 AM UTC

This is crazy. I can feel the immense possibility from this. I especially like the "feature" of this game, where you can save, load, and even share the game progress just by copying the plain text.