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YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by ramraj07 »

nicolas_t wrote: post #40
msephton wrote: post #38

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The screen technology that is used (Sharp Memory LCD) cannot be backlit—it's technically impossible because it's an opaque screen unlike most other type of LCDs which will let light through. It could be front lit, but then it would be further from the surface, so there would be a big trade-off. Personally, I think they made the right decision because as it is the screen looks like some sort of magical material from o…

I have a playdate but unfortunately rarely play it because without a backlight, I'm rarely in a situation where it's comfortable to play my playdate...

Maybe you should sell it then? Given its scarce and all..

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by pmontra »

msephton wrote: post #16
minimaxir wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hacker News submissions automatically title case all-caps and sometimes all-lowercase in submissions by default, particularly if it's the first word in the title (e.g. when you submit a post about the graphics library ggplot2, HN corrects it to "Ggplot2" which is definitely wrong: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ggplot2 ) A workaround is to edit the title after submitting it, which will not be automatically be corrected.

Interesting, because it was OK (as I typed it for submission) for a while and then ...changed... not just the capitalisation but also removing words and changing the units from 39KB to 39k. The original correct title is preserved in automated posts on social media at the moment it hit the top. Anyway, I think it's far too late for me to edit it now. :)

I didn't understand what 39k means. Money? I realized it was about bytes when I clicked to read the article.

Note that despite the always more common use, KB is not a thing. The correct unit is kB. Kilo is a lower case k. An upper case K is Kelvin. KB, Kelvin Bytes, does not exist.

See the list of prefixes on the site of the Bureau international des poids et mesures (English) https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/si-prefixes

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by msephton »

lopis wrote: post #50
msephton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, because it was OK (as I typed it for submission) for a while and then ...changed... not just the capitalisation but also removing words and changing the units from 39KB to 39k. The original correct title is preserved in automated posts on social media at the moment it hit the top. Anyway, I think it's far too late for me to edit it now. :)

I would suggest changing it back to 39KB as this title isn't clear at all.

I wish I could, but only the mods that changed it can change it back.

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by msephton »

MrFoof wrote: post #43

A similarly interesting story is regarding the NES homebrew game, Micro Mages. The goal with Micro Mages was to get a full-featured game into the same footprint of the original, "Black Box" NES releases for the North American launch, where a fair number of games fit in 40KB of ROM or less. Video, but it's a good summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM Morphcat has done other great NES games as well, such…

Video was great, thanks!

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by OscarDC »

Small nitpick about the website: I'm one of those people that randomly select chunks of text as I'm reading it. It seems that your website make the selection background and text the same color (#fff in the CSS) making it unreadable when doing that.

Therefore I must here control my weird urge to select text, which may be good in the end, but I don't think that's what you intended!

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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OscarDC wrote: post #55

Small nitpick about the website: I'm one of those people that randomly select chunks of text as I'm reading it. It seems that your website make the selection background and text the same color (#fff in the CSS) making it unreadable when doing that. Therefore I must here control my weird urge to select text, which may be good in the end, but I don't think that's what you intended!

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Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by msephton »

pmontra wrote: post #52
msephton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, because it was OK (as I typed it for submission) for a while and then ...changed... not just the capitalisation but also removing words and changing the units from 39KB to 39k. The original correct title is preserved in automated posts on social media at the moment it hit the top. Anyway, I think it's far too late for me to edit it now. :)

I didn't understand what 39k means. Money? I realized it was about bytes when I clicked to read the article. Note that despite the always more common use, KB is not a thing. The correct unit is kB. Kilo is a lower case k. An upper case K is Kelvin. KB, Kelvin Bytes, does not exist. See the list of prefixes on the site of the Bureau international des poids et mesures (English) https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units…

I'm a 1024 kind of guy, so I should have used KiB. I like your attention to detail.

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by pmontra »

msephton wrote: post #57
pmontra wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn't understand what 39k means. Money? I realized it was about bytes when I clicked to read the article. Note that despite the always more common use, KB is not a thing. The correct unit is kB. Kilo is a lower case k. An upper case K is Kelvin. KB, Kelvin Bytes, does not exist. See the list of prefixes on the site of the Bureau international des poids et mesures (English) https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units…

I'm a 1024 kind of guy, so I should have used KiB. I like your attention to detail.

Yeah, I also always think in multiples of 2 when there are bits and bytes into play.

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by hbn »

compiler-guy wrote: post #41
jxcl wrote: post #11

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It's also not clear if they're actually in stock. "Shipping Late 2023" it says.

I ordered mine in February and got it in September. A painful wait, but very fun once it came.

Consider yourself lucky, I ordered mine November 2021 and didn't get it until August 2023.

Re: YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB

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Post by msephton »

OscarDC wrote: post #55

Small nitpick about the website: I'm one of those people that randomly select chunks of text as I'm reading it. It seems that your website make the selection background and text the same color (#fff in the CSS) making it unreadable when doing that. Therefore I must here control my weird urge to select text, which may be good in the end, but I don't think that's what you intended!

I've made some changes to address this. Thanks for letting me know!
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