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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by joegibbs »

blunte wrote: post #155
joegibbs wrote: post #143

I've been making a proper survival strategy game. I made a few games before but they were only about a week's worth of work each, so I don't count them as "proper". This time I wanted to make a full-on project with professionally-done models, art, music etc. It's a reverse of the 4X formula - rather than starting as a small country and becoming a vast empire over the course of the game you start off heading a vast em…

The title image is so reminiscent of Age of Empires ;). No harm there. Is it safe to assume that AoE series was an influence? As it appears to be targeted only for Windows, I will not be able to try it (on Mac). But the premise sounds good and pretty unique! Best of luck with it.

Thank you! Yeah absolutely it was influenced by AoE, more in a thematic sense rather than the gameplay which is more influenced by grand strategies and Total War.

Come to think of it, there's really no reason I can't release it on Mac since it's Unreal Engine, apart from me not owning a new model that can run it. If the game's a success (hopefully!) it would definitely be worth getting one so I can build for it.

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Post by tasha0663 »

nescioquid wrote: post #206
radiantexp21 wrote: post #162

Believe it or not, I sell the following on Fiverr as radiantxp21: "I will special stocks and option picks lose all your money fast and intelligently" I know, it sounds a bit, non-English, but in my defense: it was my first time using Fiverr and I had no clue how to use it. The ad is up for a few months already, and I had many laughs creating it, but yesterday I had my first client! I panicked, I realized that I am as…

> I know, it sounds a bit...non-English Should one in 18th century verse himself be passingly versed your crier's cry rings out artfully. One fraud's earnest scheme to a knowing fraud's great mirth does bring a wild-cat's prey; loss an LLC's bounty. edit: s/knowing fraud/knowing fraud's/g; sorry for the typo

Begun this clone war has!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by jimmy2020 »

Thinking of accessible no-code application needs a robust drag and drop library not just capable of dragging and repositioning the DOM element but also comes with high performance. So I made DFlex (https://github.com/dflex-js/dflex) where the DOM tree stays untouched, with the same order but the elements change their positions with CSS transform only. That's done without changing the element position to Fixed or absolute. I've added some features recently to handle huge numbers of rows up to 1k elements but still, there's so much to do.

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Post by virgil_disgr4ce »

S E N T I E N T S: The Role-Playing Game of Artificial Consciousness - https://www.sentientsrpg.com/

About 7 months ago I started writing a role-playing game because I loved the premise: you play an android who has spontaneously and mysteriously developed consciousness—but android manufacturers are actively hunting down these "Awakened" robots and suppressing knowledge of the phenomenon.

I'm about 60 pages into the core rulebook and still working on the design and playtesting. Sign up on the homepage if you're interested!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by byecancer21 »

I am taking down the corrupt top judge of a leading Western nation, for fun.

A first instance judge had committed a serious criminal offense. Her husband, a wealthy and influential lawyer then bribed the presiding appeals court judge. So I made the assumption he would also influence the ensuing constitutional court case.

The case had been accepted by the court and assigned a case number. I waited for a month then caused the husband to panic with a morning fax sent to his law firm making fun of his felonious wife and mentioning the case. Without thinking, he used his close connections to the court, trying to save his wife I suppose. Apparently unaware I had caused this in a provable way, the top court decided the very same day to not take the case and gave no reason whatsoever. Such decisions are supposed to be scheduled ten days ahead by law, which did not occur here. The case was also objectively valid since one of the appeals court judges had refused to be on the panel, so the assignments were wrong, a severe procedural error. The judge assigned to fact-finding in the case was the President of this court, the number five in the diplomatic ranking of this nation.

My intent is to end his judicial career and thus alter the course of his nation a little bit.

I am only doing this for fun and don't care if this succeeds.

E-Mail in profile if you are a lawyer or journalist and want to see something interesting happen. There is already a public website with all case materials that caused further drama within the judiciary.

A tech connection: a false claim of immediate threat to the life of the felonious judge had been made to obtain an IP address from Cloudflare, bypassing due process.

Another tech connection: The legal entity operating the website is a DAO on Ethereum, the (minimal) costs are paid with funds originated from a tech billionaire...

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by eyelidlessness »

I’m building yet another JS test framework. I care if it succeeds in the sense that I want to use it for my own purposes, but I couldn’t care less if it gets more adoption than that.

Why I’m building it/what it is:

- Disclaimer: I don’t intend to shit on any work by comparison, everything else is also a monumental effort and in most cases a labor of love as well

- Problem: there are several “blazing fast” alternatives which either are not as fast as they think, or are feature limited and hard to extend

  - Not as fast as they think = highly optimized but their metrics omit their biggest overhead (eg spinning up new threads)

  - Feature limited = poor support for ESM, build tooling at runtime, caching and mocking don’t work as expected
- Concurrent, isolated testing by default, with a lot of tuning to provide threaded parallelism without noticeable overhead where possible (startup will always have a noticeable cost, this is aimed at subsequent runs in watch mode)

- ESM first, natively, correctly according to standards

- TypeScript without additional build config or FS output

- TS support is built on ESBuild, but I’m taking care to work around some of its limitations like lack of support for the new JSX transform

- ESM imports can be mocked trivially without memory leaks

- Ergonomic improvements to common setup/teardown APIs: beforeAll/beforeEach can return isolated values for tests

- APIs for aroundAll/aroundEach which allow tests to be executed in the same stack as they’re declared, which in turn means you can use things like async hooks and other stack local references (motivating use case: rolling back transactions to a clean current db state without re-running migrations)

I’m probably forgetting other nice things going into this. And it’s just a yak shave project because I want this to test more concrete things I want to build

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Post by tbillington »

A persistent web game written mostly in rust, with some js for the frontend. I got into the habit of streaming my work to keep me focused (https://www.twitch.tv/sleepyteagames) I'm mostly doing it for the fun and learning, though I'm hopefully about what it could be.
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