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Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by mghackerlady »

heyitssim wrote: post #10

I love making games! I've been building a no-code game engine by extracting reusable components each time I make a new game. Started as a way to scratch my own itch, now it's becoming a proper platform. A couple games I've shipped with it: - https://craftmygame.com/game/e310c6fcd8f4448f9dc67aac/r/play - https://craftmygame.com/game/f977040308d84f41b615244b/r/play Each game I build adds to the component library: multi…

Is there any text based programming environment for it? the one thing game engines like unity or unreal get right IMO is having a pretty GUI for doing basic things and prototyping while still having the text based programming available to modify further

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by mkw5053 »

smusamashah wrote: post #8

Is there a way to see the most popular / highest voted ones? If every submission makes it to the list it will collect lots of clutter.

Agreed. (someone else mentioned sorting by upvotes, which I like too) Also a thumbnail (or gif), just a way to convey more information about the game more quickly.

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by woutervdb »

yathern wrote: post #44

Fantastic idea! I didn't see my https://words.zip game here so I'll submit it, even though it didn't get mucht traction on HN - it's up to 288,000 words found now!

I like the idea, but the UI gives me a headache, especially when the "found words" are still loading. I think it might have to do with the contrast?

If relevant, I'm loading the website on a 27" IPS display under normal daylight conditions.

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by yathern »

woutervdb wrote: post #46
yathern wrote: post #44

Fantastic idea! I didn't see my https://words.zip game here so I'll submit it, even though it didn't get mucht traction on HN - it's up to 288,000 words found now!

I like the idea, but the UI gives me a headache, especially when the "found words" are still loading. I think it might have to do with the contrast? If relevant, I'm loading the website on a 27" IPS display under normal daylight conditions.

Thanks for the feedback, I've heard similar before and meant to make a lower contrast option - I'll definitely get on it.

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by orsorna »

susam wrote: post #31

This is great. Thank you for building and sharing it. May I request you to consider moving this project to a community organisation like https://github.com/ so that we, the HN folks, can maintain it as a community? Curated list projects often start with a lot of enthusiasm and I follow several similar ones focused on personal websites and blogs. While some of the curators remain active and maintain their project even…

The org should also curate selections. Particularly only games that have been well received in past HN discussions, and if they have, the org might add them to the directory.

Re: Show HN: The HN Arcade

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Post by labarilem »

Cool project!

I'm building something quite similar at https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

I manually curate the data and add images too. Code and data are open: https://github.com/labarilem/hn-games

I've posted this project some time ago to HN but it didn't get much attention unfortunately.

NOTE: Data includes games up to April 2024, I add more games when I have some spare time and plan to catch up to today's games asap.

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