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Re: Show HN: Lil digi – play a platformer game as yourself

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Post by sunnyba »

moschetti1 wrote: post #8

damn such a cool idea, didn't let me play as donald trump lmao but this concept is so cool.

Thanks! There are some content filtering rules via Gemini, but if you got an error on Trump I'm guessing it's an issue with the image generation rate limit getting overloaded.

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Post by sunnyba »

armitage__ wrote: post #3

Very neat. Would you share some of the prompts you used to generate the pixel art sprite? Super accurate to the photo I provided.

Thanks! Like another user commented below, I think the appeal of the pixel art sprites is that at a lower level of detail it can feel really accurate. 10 different real life red jackets can all end up as the same pixel art representation but each person would recognize it as their jacket! It feels like a form of compression.

On prompting, you can get most of the way there in AI studio on Gemini 2.0 Flash (Image Generation) Experimental by uploading a picture and asking for "a high quality detailed pixel art sprite of this character." Most of the backend annoyance here was iterating to improve prompt adherence (characters not facing the same way, outfits changing between frames, etc).

Re: Show HN: Lil digi – play a platformer game as yourself

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Post by sunnyba »

IanCal wrote: post #4

That's a fantastic idea! I love the little me on that - taken from just a webcam pic with a messy background and it's pulled out things like my tshirt perfectly.

Thanks! A few friends have starting using the generated digis as profile pictures because of how recognizable they are. I was definitely surprised at how good the models had gotten.

Re: Show HN: Lil digi – play a platformer game as yourself

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Post by sunnyba »

thanks for the traffic everyone -- definitely hitting rate limits on gemini already so if it doesn't work please give it a try later in the day or try the example.

Apologies for the inconvenience! If anyone on the gemini team can help out, please lmk (email in bio).

Re: Show HN: Lil digi – play a platformer game as yourself

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Post by sunnyba »

adamddev1 wrote: post #15

This is one of the most delightful things I've seen on the internet in a long while. I immediately started sharing it with my friends and we shared the cute little characters we made. Everyone loved it.

Thank you, I appreciate you sharing that!

Re: Show HN: Lil digi – play a platformer game as yourself

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Post by sunnyba »

kuberwastaken wrote: post #17

THIS IS SO COOL, got top 6.9% haha https://imgur.com/a/8MptH2l

nice! I was personally surprised seeing scores roll in that were lower than mine, since I had played the level so many times while debugging haha.

Best in the system now is 17.1s and it must have been a near perfect run.

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