Show HN: Classic Video Poker

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 4:00 PM UTC

MattRix wrote: post #79

lifeinthevoid wrote: post #60

as an aside: I'm currently a low-level systems programmer working on distributed database internals, but I'm looking to transition into 3D animation / game design because the combination of programming, visual creativity, math & physics sounds attractive to me. How much time would it take me to start creating non-trivial content and be able to charge for my work?

I’m not OP but I’ve been doing game dev for 15 years professionally for the same reasons you mentioned. I’ll be honest up front though, it’s not a great field if you’re going into it trying to make money, but it can be incredibly satisfying. As far as how long it’ll take, that depends on what kind of things you want to make and how much time/effort you’re willing to put into them, especially on the visual polish side…

Post by jonny_eh » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 4:11 PM UTC

krenzo wrote: post #2

Ended on a hand of: K J A A Q and did not receive the Jacks or Better $1 payout. According to a brief search about the rules of video poker, a pair of aces is considered better than a pair of jacks.

Post by jonny_eh » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 4:13 PM UTC

lifeinthevoid wrote: post #60

as an aside: I'm currently a low-level systems programmer working on distributed database internals, but I'm looking to transition into 3D animation / game design because the combination of programming, visual creativity, math & physics sounds attractive to me. How much time would it take me to start creating non-trivial content and be able to charge for my work?

Post by sinuhe69 » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

Tiberium wrote: post #72

CSSer wrote: post #69

This is more a question of curiosity than one of judgment: why does it take so long to load? I guess I expected it to be very fast because of the relative simplicity. Forgive me, I know nothing about Godot or Unity. This is still very cool.

Godot packs the whole engine runtime when packing the game no matter the platform, but in this case it's also probably because the internet connection on the server is slow - https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.wasm (26MB, main engine runtime) took me 22s to load, and https://lfgslots.com/classicvideopoker/index.pck (16MB, game resources) 34s.

Post by akudha » Wed, Oct 04, 2023, 4:36 PM UTC

loufe wrote: post #27

I really like Godot so far but the debugging tools are massively inferior to any other IDE and language I've ever used. I waste so much time trying to track down bugs. Proper variable inspection would be a life saver, for instance.