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Re: Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

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Post by carl_dr »

teamonkey wrote: post #61
bdickason wrote: post #38

This is very cool. I love the focus on builders and do think there's a gap in easy to use 2d web-friendly game engines currently. Phaser still requires a ton of boilerplate code compared to the example games here. Both Godot and Unity are very similar to each other and aren't great for say.. hacking together a quick js prototype and sharing it with your friends on the web (or with a lil' device).

The hole left by Flash has still not been filled

This.

For all the faults with Flash (security primarily) it gave so many people an easy way into games development.

We’re missing this today.

Just getting the environment setup for a lot of game engines today is beyond today’s teenagers (and to be fair, me - both in terms of required knowledge and attention span), whereas 40 years ago, you just turned your computer on and boom - a flashing cursor. You had to type things to even load games.

Re: Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

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Post by djur »

criticalmass1 wrote: post #69
djur wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great attitude that you'd think would be more common at a place called "Hacker News". The temptation to get "finance brained" is incredibly powerful in this industry, especially as you get closer to Silicon Valley, and the more young programmers resist it the better off we're going to be. Thanks.

> The temptation to get "finance brained" Trust me, people don't get into programming video games for the money. Anyway, this is a funny perspective. Zach Latta, the Hack Club founder, got a Thiel Fellowship. I would not characterize Peter Thiel's philanthropy as 100% mission driven. I also don't think he's a supervillian. But there is a finance angle, not a negative one, to even the most seemingly twee retrocomputin…

Why should the goals of the project funder have any bearing on the goals of participants in the project?

Re: Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

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Post by _carbyau_ »

aliqot wrote: post #45
trashfishes wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ha! I’m also part of the Sprig team. This project has been created by many Hack Clubbers, and not only in the development of the engine, editors, firmware and hardware. Hack Club teens handled all logistics/supply. The backings were made by a HCer that taught herself laser cutting. PRs for games are being reviewed and commented upon by 4 teenagers. All front end dev & copy was done by a HCer. The 3d model on the fron…

What happends to the teenagers who turn 20? Emeritus or what?

Watch Logan's run. They get a very nice ceremony and move on. :-)

Re: Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

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Post by aliqot »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #75
aliqot wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happends to the teenagers who turn 20? Emeritus or what?

Watch Logan's run. They get a very nice ceremony and move on. :-)

You're alright with me :-) Glad we don't have a carousel.

Re: Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

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Post by cowgoesmoo »

teamonkey wrote: post #61
bdickason wrote: post #38

This is very cool. I love the focus on builders and do think there's a gap in easy to use 2d web-friendly game engines currently. Phaser still requires a ton of boilerplate code compared to the example games here. Both Godot and Unity are very similar to each other and aren't great for say.. hacking together a quick js prototype and sharing it with your friends on the web (or with a lil' device).

The hole left by Flash has still not been filled

Roblox is a thing. I got into programming back in 09 cause I wanted to make a Roblox game.

Re: Show HN: Sprig, open-source game console and engine, by teenagers for teenagers

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Post by reesericci »

omay wrote: post #56
linsomniac wrote: post #49

Hack Club is awesome, I highly recommend it to anyone with teenage kids. There is a playable version on the home page at: https://sprig.hackclub.com/ Aside: The game you play on that one was written by my 13yo son. He has become super involved in Hack Club over the last few months, since I showed him that "Sine Rider" game announced on HN (another Hack Club project), and I left it up to him to discover Hack Club from…

Hello, yes that is me. Sprig is really cool.

omay - sokoban+ is incredible
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