I enjoyed poking around to look for how to get the debug menu and hacker achievement, that's a nice touch to encourage you to peek into the source.
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#142Nice! Ok, any list or core libraries used to help to create something like this?
Three.js for the bulk of it, and it looks like Rapier is being used for physics.
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#143Nice! Ok, any list or core libraries used to help to create something like this?
Three.js
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's called growing up
I dunno. I see many “grown ups” replacing video game time with just more time scrolling on their phones, or maybe on the TV watching YouTube or some streaming service. I think playing (some) video games can be a bit better for your brain vs. the above alternatives. At least many of them require thought and/or coordination. Again, there are exceptions, where they’re not much better than doom scrolling. But it’s not ha…
That's me, 2 kids and no time to game. Yet find 2 hours to doomscroll twitter every day.
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#145I watched all the dev vlogs on YouTube. This is a true masterpiece. Kudos to Bruno
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#146Impressive! Very cool that it works on mobile too
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#147This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0]. Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return. What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The…
Opportunity cost and perspective. We've probably played enough games to know how the cycle goes; there's a little voice in our heads now telling us that it's all just a big pixel hunt and the next few hours will be more of the same (my interest in a game fades once I learn the meta). And then there's so many games these days... so the other question is why not play something more interesting or exciting?
I think that's it, when it's new you explore, but when you know what to expect or seen it before, exploration is no longer interesting.
That said, there's some games out there today that draw me in just as much as others did 25 years ago; I've spent hundreds of hours in Factorio, I can't imagine how much I'd be into it 25 years ago (...assuming I would have understood it back then). Likewise, I'm sure I'd be a lot more into Minecraft if I was 25 years younger.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dunno. I see many “grown ups” replacing video game time with just more time scrolling on their phones, or maybe on the TV watching YouTube or some streaming service. I think playing (some) video games can be a bit better for your brain vs. the above alternatives. At least many of them require thought and/or coordination. Again, there are exceptions, where they’re not much better than doom scrolling. But it’s not ha…
That's me, 2 kids and no time to game. Yet find 2 hours to doomscroll twitter every day.
Same but with 1 kid and different websites (including HN, which is equally bad!). Actively fighting it though. Slowly removing all social media accounts, now just need to figure out how to block stuff permanently on my phone.
On a desktop I did it with changing my hosts file to point everything to 127.0.0.1. Need to figure out how to do this also on mobile without an additional network device that would disrupt things for my wife.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What changed? Personally, I feel too guilty about everything else I'm not doing. (This results in me feeling maximal guilt and doing minimal anything at all.)
That doesn’t sound healthy man. Unless that other thing you should’ve been doing is giving CPR or something then stop feeling guilty. “Productivity” is not the end goal, you are allowed to play games in life. In fact, shouldn’t work be about enabling you to enjoy life?
Weirdly, playing games is typically something I the feel least guilty doing, precisely because it's a distraction from the other stuff I'd otherwise not be doing. There's just a lot of stuff I want to do, that I struggle to do, and so I feel guilty about not making progress on that stuff. Then, whenever I try to do something else, I feel too guilty to do that something else.
It's a real self-reinforcing negative feedback loop. I agree that it's not healthy. It's just hard to break out of.
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#150Woohoo, I got number 10,000 on the altar! https://youtu.be/4KYI8CgGrLw
Now who was there with me running it up at the same time :)